Damn, I need a lot more jewel crafting tomes. Can you not buy them anymore on the auction house? I can't find them.

Forgot to repair last night from red. Just repaired. It cost me 25k gold :O

I died twice and it was 6k to repair

Geez. I am not going to be able afford inferno. That is ridiculous. They will change that in the next patch.

Well they made the game easier, but they lowered gold and loot drops from jars/ect. They also lowered loot on bosses...you will need to attack elites to get the best loot/gold...

People will die and get items damaged quicker on elites...this is going to end up costing people who have bad gear more. (top gear it should be the same)

This results in two things...

If you have bad gear, it pushes you even more to the RMAH..more money for Blizzard

It lowers the amount of gold in all peoples games which again pushes people to the RMAH..esp when they start allowing gold purchases.

I love this game, and have spent over 120 hours on it, but this screams money grab...

The repair costs are way too high now. It's not just inferno. I died once in hell just now and it was 4.5K to repair. Hell, I did a clean run of the secret level and it was still 2K from just normal use of my weapons.

Well, I'm done with the game. There's no reason to play anymore, besides to get more gold/loot to in-turn, get more gold an loot. It's pointless and the extreme cost of repairing items negates the core game mechanic. You go backwards in gold just by playing the game, I think I lost around 40K just playing and getting killed by a few blue mobs.

oh my, the more i read on different forums about the astronomical repair costs, the more i am wondering if I will even be able to play the game anymore with my high level character. Sure I can start a new character and avoid the high costs until lv 53, but I worked real hard at getting my DH to 60. I want to play as a level 60 for a while. It looks like I won't be able to do that without extreme frustration. I love the game, but this is so disappointing.

Yeah, I just don't feel the urge to play any longer with this repair cost. There just isn't enough payoff for playing anymore. It was fun before working to take down that blue mob, but there were a lot of better ways to do this. Honestly, I think I may be done with the game for now.

One guy said he played for 15 minutes on act 3 inferno and didn't die once. He had an 8k repair bill.

Yeah, they are going to lose a huge chunk of players with the repair cost update.

Go read the official D3 boards on battle.net to get really disheartened.

i think i am going to be done too. this saddens me quite a bit, (other than Dark Souls)this is the most fun I have had with a game in a long time. I was so thrilled when I got to 60 a couple of nights ago. I was excited about starting inferno and farming for better loot with friends. All that looks to be out the window now. I can't afford paying thousands for repairs from dying ONCE. Even if you don't die you are still losing durability and need repairs. I certainly don't want to start a new character to only get to level 53 and deal with these costs!!

I am sick on my stomach to be honest with you. I just don't see how they are going to keep people playing this game with this patch.

I love the game, but with this gold sink now it doesn't seem like you are ever accomplishing anything. I have plenty of games I can play if I'm not going to accomplish anything.

I'm seeing big repair bills, but not what you people are seeing.

I just played a few chapters in act 1 inferno. I may have spent 20k on repair bills, but the gold drops were very high. I'm pretty sure I made about 30k, plus I got a ton of rares dropped.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/3354739/

it looks like alot of folks are done with the game now. just read some of the threads.

I think for people who had inferno act 1 on farm and a decent amount of gold the gold sink of repairs is not too bad. For those who are just getting to act 1 and do not have good gear this will end up costing them a ton of gold.

I am not really sure what they are thinking with this change.

Repair sucks...I played act 2 a bit just to see how hard it was..I would say it is maybe 15% easier..though because my attack speed is so slow now, I am going to have to rethink my build..but I was able to get 5 stacks easy..died twice on one group of elite bugs(hate those things) but other elite groups were no problem at all...spent maybe 30,000 in repairs...made about 20,000 in gold..

If you don't die at all, you can make gains..if you die about once every 30 minutes you make very small gains....2 and you have broken even or in the negative...

I got some really good loot though...but loot does not help gold unless it is amazing loot. Nothing I got would sell for more than 1000 gold on the auction house...

I will stick with my hardcore characters until they fix this...

I hope they do fix it, FoxDvd. I was having such a blast. I just can't imagine they will keep it this way. I will work on my lv 24 barbarian in hopes they will patch again to put repair costs where they were so i can play with my lv 60 again.

I was barely making money with the repair costs at the old levels. Unless the difficulty is such that NEVER die (or almost never) it makes the game unplayable for me unless I buy gold with real money.

The blues even in inferno seem to die quicker. I just did a butcher run on inferno and after repairs and selling (didn't die once, but my repair was still 10k) I made about 50k

Wow, the rage going on over at the Diablo forums is crazy. People issuing chargebacks because they bought an item on the RMAH, and it got nerfed with this patch. Can't wait to hear blizz's response to all this!

Game bans, and they better hope they don't play WoW because it's all battle.net and it will close down their entire battle.net with a chargeback.

I dont blame people that are furious about an item they bought on the RMAH. Blizzard shouldnt be able to nerf a weapon that someone paid $250 for. When you buy a car with a V8, the dealer doesnt come to your house a few days later and change it to a V6. It is ridiculous what Blizzard is doing. I thought EA was the worst game company...I was wrong.

On the other hand, they gave advance notice on the nerf everywhere they could (forum, launcher, etc...) and it's quite clear in the TOS that you aren't buying items with your money, you are only licensing them, and blizzard is free to change them however necessary.

Still. If you have say $250 dollars in goods bought and are able to get the money back and you are just out Diablo 3 then it is a net gain for you.

Really they should have just nerfed the amount of buff the stat gave instead of changing the stats.

This way they could in some way keep weapon DPs the same but make some internal changes that nerfed it. So it would not be so obvious you had a 1200 DPs weapon and now it is 990 DPS.

They gave notice of the nerf over a week before the RMAH even got turned on. Honestly, anyone who bought then with all the signs pointing to a nerf have no right to be mad.

And wlj, that isn't really an apt comparison. The dealership doesn't own that car any longer (well i guess if they have a lien on it). You also didn't sign a contract when you bought the car that said they could come over and modify your car anytime they want because it's still their car and will never be your car. If you did, then you should read contracts better.

And honestly, anyone who spent 250 dollars on a virtual item in a game I feel absolutely no sympathy for.

One more thing, paying for an item and getting what you paid for, even if it changes later and then doing a chargeback on that item is technically credit card fraud and can put you in prison. (banks don't mess with that, they will have no problem doing this). We have all seen what happened with Sony removing the OtherOS. No one could do a thing because it was modified later, and by using PSN they signed a contract saying that Sony could modify the firmware as they choose. That's likely going to be the case here too.

as I said though gcribbs they will likely shut down any wow accounts and take any other games you bought from them at the same time. To some people their wow account is worth far more than 250 dollars.

I do not disagree. I will not ever use the RMAH so this has zero effect on me.

However, someone who only has a Diablo 3 account it might be a tempting thing to do if they spent enough on the gear.

This was a poorly thought out patch. I suspect a minority of people are happy with this patch at the moment.