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As it stands the "best items" are going to be basically blues until we see some major changes too the loot charge no matter how deep it may or may not be.
As it stands I don't spend my gold on jeweling, or blacksmithing. I don't buy uniques but I do sell them on the AH.
Depending on what your 'goal' with D2 is I just want to give you an over-arching idea of forseeing what you will end up with at level 60 vs what you should be spending your gold on.
Spend your gold on potions and high dps weapons, 2 hander or otherwise.
As for selling items in the AH I have found that extravagant buy out prices are tempting but using the Wizard guide to leveing I almost usually am selling exclusively yellows on the AH (not any blues currently).
As for buying and selling comodities don't spend money on upgrading things like gems unless you plan on scaling too sell ie.
Level 1 - Flawed
Level 2 - Normal
Level 3 - Flawless
Level 4 - Perfect
Level 5 - Radiant
Level 6 - Square
Level 7 - Flawless Square
Level 8 - Perfect Square
Level 9 - Radiant Square
Level 10 - Star
Level 10 - Flawless Star
Level 10 - Perfect Star
Level 10 - Radiant Star
-Buying a normal gem from the ah costs about 50 gold more than a chipped or flawed. since there is no level requirement, no one would ever use a chipped or flawed gem
-If you want to combine chipped or flawed gems to a normal one it will cost you about 500 gold. Since the auction house offers you normal and flawless for about 400 gold there is literally no point to using this recipy. You're better of selling them to vendor or putting them on ah (where no one will buy them)
-There is no point to disenchanting items 99%. For example, if you disenchant an item on normal you get a piece of dust that sells for 14 or 15 gold on the AH. Since the blues themselves would sell themselves for 100-200 to a vendor you would waste money disenchanting items yourself.
-Crafting is useless (at least so far for me). I've spend about 35.000 gold in upgrading and crafting items themselves, but they mostly end up terrible. Again, you're better off buying something nice from the AH at half the cost with twice the stats. I realize that this might change when you get a higher level (I'm not maxed yet) but that shouldn't change the fact that it is relatively useless in lower levels.
-As is obvious by now, legendaries are relatively weak in comparison with blues and rares most of the time. It makes no sense that a legendary I would find has less benefit that the rares and blues that pop up all the time.
Basically, most of this has to do with the AH, but it still makes for an odd playing experience. Everything else about the game I like but the above points just render half of the crafting/gem/item system void.
They stack too 100.
Also you can sell comodities to the AH even when your 10/10 on the AH and want too sell stacks of master jewler or master blacksmith.
Depends on what your selling.
You can get good money for all your magic items if they have good stats. Yellows sell better on the AH even though technically they are about a bit more sketchy than blues.
Most of my farming has been between normal-nightmare Azmodan runs.
I have a friend whos a 60 so I can defer all short term questions to him but I will clarify anything if you want.
Cheers.
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