Artisans, Long overdue

Yesterday I spoke a little about selling crafting materials early game, so I thought it was probably time we talked about Artisans

In Diablo 3, Blizzard is implementing a sort of companion class of crafters, who will follow you to the neutral zones of each act.  These will include a Blacksmith, a Jeweler, and a Mystic.

Early Launch Dramatics

So I'll pose a question to the audience; in the early game when you break down an item, will you keep the mats for yourself, or sell them?

The answer should simply be, sell them.  Those who are familiar with Warcraft's gold blog communities will see that the most money can be gained when people are trying to rush to the endgame.

For example

Region Locks, and Making Bank

As some of you may or may not know, Diablo III will be region locked.  What this means is that each region will have its own auction house.  It also means that different copies of the game will be sold.

What does this mean to you?  Well, if you live in Russia, you will probably have your own region.  Similar to those in Europe, China, Oceanic (Aus, NZ, Indo etc), North America and South America.

But what can we do to profit from this?

Bots

Botting is strictly forbidden in Diablo 3, and we should all be hoping that Blizzard is as strict as possible on these cheaters.  Bots will be the ruin of the economy, and I'm hoping Blizzard insta bans these hacks instead of the wave bans they do with world of warcraft.

That being said, we're bound to find them in the game so here is a list of themed Bots we're most likely to find.

Magic Find, Friend or Foe

In Diablo 2, Magic Find (MF) was a big help to those hunting down gear.  Diablo wiki here has a good overview of the system.  In short, Magic Find was a gear stat just like Strength or Dmg, however, this stat gave you an additional chance to have rares drop.

What diablo then turned into was how much MF can you wear while still surviving.The good news, and the bad news, is that Magic find is back in Diablo 3.

Blizzard Site update

Blizzard has uploaded a starter page for their Auction House, which I'm sure will have more information shortly, there's a lot of FAQ items which I'll discuss in future blogs.  Here's another pic of their "smart search" feature, which is a good thing, or you would otherwise have to search through approximately 3 million items everytime you wanted something.

Character Selling, more info

Speculation on fees and regions can wait until tomorrow.  Thanks to those at IncGamers we have a screenshot of the character selling section of the auction house.

Here we can see more detail as to how these characters will be sorted and searched in the AH

What's for Sale

Hello Everyone,

Today I'm going to speak about what's for sale on the Real Money auction house (RMAH) in Diablo III.  First let's start with a pic.

This is a screenshot of the RMAH which tells us, currently, what we may be able to sell for real money when Diablo 3 is released.

Let's go from top to bottom:

Blizzard becomes Amsterdam

Blizzard has recently decided to launch Diablo 3 with an in game Gold auction house and... wait for it... Real money auction house.  This is a game changer, while this news is about 3 weeks old from the date that I'm writing this, already sites that have been in dormancy for years are back generating 10s of thousands of hits each day with people clamoring for content information.

I have to admit, having attended Blizzcon in 2010, I hadn't really sat in on any of the panels, or the game demo as I figured "heck, it's Diablo, I'll just pick it up, and click things to death".  When this info released, I admit, I was fired up.  Then I started to read some of the information and commentary surrounding the RMAH and was surprised to see a large community base upset with this decision, this is in fact what prompted me to start up this Blog.

My perspective is that Blizzard has decided to become Amsterdam.  Here is an artist's rendition

  

If you're wondering what the real Amsterdam flag looks like, find it here 

(and yes, I find it hilarious that it is a triple X)

It Begins

Recently Blizzard dropped a game changer on us, Real Money auction house, and since then the world of gaming has been in a stir.  Productivity at work has gone down, speculation is high, and already, China is breeding another 40 million children so that they can be dexterous enough to farm loot when Diablo 3 releases in 4 months.