Also MrKaxe your going to have to fill me in on the finer points of trading - how useful are pgems to get mid level items for instance.
Where to go too would be useful to know! Always tried to get stuff myself - I can see why most of my characters suck! ;-)
HC Trading is an absolute nightmare! Luckily i met some new, rich mates who have advised me on trading prices as I didn't have much of a clue before as I find all this nice stuff then get stiffed on trading as i'm a n00b at it!
If you take a look at one of the price guides around here, then
triple the price, that's what some of the cattle.net kiddies demand for something! It's insane!
When it comes to pgem trades, as they are so easy to make (i pick up every flawless i find and cube the pants off of them!) i usually make a game saying for example 'N Gores O 15 Pg' (they are worth 10 max but you will have to wait
ages to get someone sensible to trade with) to get a quicker trade as i can depend on the greed of others to join my game and if i'm desperate and want them quick, in this example, i'd jack it up to 20!
With items i want that will benefit me bigstyle but aren't 'L337' to others i will also overpay with pGems (a guy was trading a +2 Fire Skills crafted with 9% FCR on it and some other gravy mods, as it helped me to free up a ring slot for a Dwarf Star and have the Fire Skills i needed at the time and meet a breakpoint still, i went for it! Trader made me offer a price so i said 10 pGems just to secure the trade (as it was in a an open game) and i CBA to haggle all the time! Realistically, with the worth of that amulet, start them off with 5 and if they refuse say 7 or 8)
Big-value items i will wait on and definately try and get value for value trading for, sometimes again, i will screw myself for wanting something desperately (e.g i traded my 3/-3 Cold Die Facet for a 32/12 Skin non-upped as i wanted it there and then, also traded a Cold Skiller for a Shako which i could have waited and got more worth for but that paid off as it had a pTopaz in it already saving me a socket Q!) and overpay but sometimes you have to! I can give you a rough idea if you wanted to trade for something or if i have an equivalent item (still poor atm but that's soon to change!) you can have it free :wink3:
I've found a nice profitable run from reading on the forums somewhere i can have nailed in a couple of minutes:
1) Get IK barb, equip BO helm and amulet and switch to BO-stixx
2) Buff BO @ Trav WP
3) Switch helmet to IK with Topaz and MF amulet
4) Lay the smackdown on the Hell Council by just keep whirling thorugh them and don't stop for love nor money! (Merc's Reaper's Toll triggering makes this go quicker but he might need a juve if he's swarmed)
5) Hork the corpses
6) TP to town to sell blue armours etc worth loadsa gold!
7) Go to Act 4 as the wp is quicker to access in next game
8) Rinse and repeat
I find you can get some juicy charms, jools, and a buttload of money for gambling from these guys and it's quick and painless to do! Once my cheezy Meteorb gets to lvl 62 to put that Shako on i will do the more conventional runs of Meph and Baal and maybe we can run them together and alternate drops? That's something else four of us were doing last night at Hell Baal so we got the exp from runs and a drop order to boot!
Anyway, back to KTA! Can't wait for tonight as i will finally have Fury to run around with! Feral on my right click for 'personal life tap' and Fury to dish the pain on my left!
