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If anyone has a soft towel, may I borrow it to wipe my rose-colored glasses off for a minute? What was looking extremely positive as of the last post has come to, for the most part, a now steeper path of ascent.

The road blocks are several, though none insurmountable:

  • Fast devaluation of blues meaning timing matters more
  • More blues appearing when you thought yours was rare
  • People severely undercutting you

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The level 80 items are starting to show up with more frequency now. This means that you’ll start to find a single level 80 weapon or armor that really has value quite often and be able to turn a profit on it. I’ve done this several times now for easy 200 to 400g profits. Of course I reinvest profits after in appealing new items.

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Well I still am only checking a couple times a day and simply haven’t had the time to start a Death Knight character yet. That said, I’m up about 200g on Celwyn to 2300+ with about 1000g worth of additional items in the auction house as we speak. Several have expired once or twice and I made about a 250g profit on a single blue weapon from one posting, but in general I believe I’m making good buys.

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Over the last few days I’ve discovered what presents a challenge to me in this game. It’s the auction house of course. Here I have a decked out (well, for me) level 70 Priest in crafted and won gear from a pretty decent dungeon and have I distributed his new talent points yet or seen the new areas?

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Lich King AH Impressions

As it had been a few months since I’ve logged on to check the auction house, my big question going in was, “Is it much different than before?”

Yes and no.

Differences:

I apologize for the length of absence but I had taken a leave due mainly to our baby son, the workload at my other job, and awaiting the arrival of the Lich King.  Now that it has come, I’m actually sitting here installing it and cannot wait to begin seeing new items in the AH.

I’m going to first use the same character I did on the podcast tutorial series.  He is still left untouched from the end of the series with a little over 2000g and itching to pay a visit to the new Stormwind Auction House.  Will report again in the very near future with impressions!

It hasn’t yet been officially stated whether Diablo 3′s trading/barter system will work similar or even remotely close to Diablo 2′s, but let’s assume for the sake of this article that it will be in the ballpark (with I’m sure some needed chat upgrades).

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About 6 months after Diablo II came out, I was a master trader. Maybe not the best, but like I’ve said previously on this site, I was honest and fairly fair, which automatically disqualifies me from being #1. The ones with the most money/loot/whatever worked on a different moral and ethical system than I did. I simply cared about one thing. Getting the best stuff I could for my character, which I then played with.

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With the fairly recent news that Diablo 3 is coming (Diablo III, Diablo 3?) I became really excited. To me the series is one of those that will go down as one of the all time best. While I don’t prefer it to Heroes of Might & Magic II or III, nor Ultima, nor Deus Ex, it is right up there at the very top of the 2nd tier of games I’ve ever liked. You see, it created an addictive experience almost better than anything else out there… but it didn’t quite capture the emotional experience that some of my other favorites did, for me at least.

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When Wrath of the Lich King launches, your level 70 bind on equip items will become less expensive, immediately. You’ll be finding new (and expensive) greens that match the epic or rare you were using. So how do you combat this?

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