Well, I found some very useful information from you guys on this. Thanks for the posts (sorry for the earlier rage, I get irritable at 4 in the morning, what you said as advice was helpful as well).
I mentioned that I played D2 for a decade? I figured that would hint that I was used and enjoyed the grind/farming items. Guess not.
It's not the issue that I have to go and farm the items. It's that I'm incapable of doing said farming. As for going back to hell and farming lower level items, maybe I'm just having terrible luck there, because I haven't seen more than maybe one useful thing in a month of going back and forth between the hardest two difficulties.
That being said, the issues I brought up are still relevant as far as gold. I'm not making empty complaints and insults about it, I've given examples and such. But then again, not all of the forum community is known for it's intellectual replies.
Maybe I'm missing something here. I've been a pretty loyal fan and player of Diablo 2 for the decade it's been out, and I've had my fill of playing a Barbarian far into Inferno mode with D3. There's a few issues I'd love to have resolved for me though.
Obviously there's a giant leap in required gear from Hell to Inferno, and act 1 does a great job of introducing the difficulty to a Barbarian. But there's a huge problem I found with being a barbarian running into elite packs in any act of Inferno. Three of the other classes are very viable ranged classes, so the easiest thing for them to do when they run into elite packs is to kite them. They can pull off the damage they need to play the game that way. There's one build that lets Barbarians pull this off, and it requires a certain set of gear with a certain set of stats. With the inflation on the AH right now and the cost of repairs being raised as they were, I can't afford to spend that much gold on gear that suits the throwing axe build. I don't really want to be forced to grind gold, especially since the drops for it out of objects has been nerfed to the ground, just to gear up for a specific build (or a normal meleeing build) because it isn't fun. In my case (I won't speak for everyone, though I'm sure there are plenty of others with the same issues), I don't have the particular level of gear I need to kill elites/rares to the point where I'm farming them efficiently. There's a completely silly enrage timer that doesn't even allow a player who isn't geared for the content to kite the monster around, having a build either built around throwing axes or WotB. Wrath is an amazing skill, but it's not reliable because again, without the right gear (more gold to throw out at the auction) you can't take the necessary damage to dish out your own.
That leaves me in a situation where I'll be looking for VERY specific elite/rare packs that a Barbarian has absolutely no problem killing (I recall there being around three combinations of manageable ones). Personally, I feel that Blizzard made a mistake with the repair cost buff and the gold drop nerf. It's losing part of the magic of Diablo to inflate the economy in the game in such a way that all of the horrible items are dirt cheap or too expensive, and all of the moderate to amazing items are unrealistically expensive. There's no reasonable way to approach this as an undergeared Barbarian who can tear through hell but can't tackle half of act 1 inferno, let alone act 2. Hopefully there's a solution to the need to kite everything (like removing the rediculous enrage timer) or something else that resolves the gold issues. I really would rather not have to rely on gold farming for weeks in easier difficulties to purchase decent gear because it's not fun. It burns a player out really quickly, but it's the path of least resistance as far as spending goes.
That's my two cents, maybe there's a few veteran Barbs that have the solution I'm looking for.
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It's not the issue that I have to go and farm the items. It's that I'm incapable of doing said farming. As for going back to hell and farming lower level items, maybe I'm just having terrible luck there, because I haven't seen more than maybe one useful thing in a month of going back and forth between the hardest two difficulties.
That being said, the issues I brought up are still relevant as far as gold. I'm not making empty complaints and insults about it, I've given examples and such. But then again, not all of the forum community is known for it's intellectual replies.
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Obviously there's a giant leap in required gear from Hell to Inferno, and act 1 does a great job of introducing the difficulty to a Barbarian. But there's a huge problem I found with being a barbarian running into elite packs in any act of Inferno. Three of the other classes are very viable ranged classes, so the easiest thing for them to do when they run into elite packs is to kite them. They can pull off the damage they need to play the game that way. There's one build that lets Barbarians pull this off, and it requires a certain set of gear with a certain set of stats. With the inflation on the AH right now and the cost of repairs being raised as they were, I can't afford to spend that much gold on gear that suits the throwing axe build. I don't really want to be forced to grind gold, especially since the drops for it out of objects has been nerfed to the ground, just to gear up for a specific build (or a normal meleeing build) because it isn't fun. In my case (I won't speak for everyone, though I'm sure there are plenty of others with the same issues), I don't have the particular level of gear I need to kill elites/rares to the point where I'm farming them efficiently. There's a completely silly enrage timer that doesn't even allow a player who isn't geared for the content to kite the monster around, having a build either built around throwing axes or WotB. Wrath is an amazing skill, but it's not reliable because again, without the right gear (more gold to throw out at the auction) you can't take the necessary damage to dish out your own.
That leaves me in a situation where I'll be looking for VERY specific elite/rare packs that a Barbarian has absolutely no problem killing (I recall there being around three combinations of manageable ones). Personally, I feel that Blizzard made a mistake with the repair cost buff and the gold drop nerf. It's losing part of the magic of Diablo to inflate the economy in the game in such a way that all of the horrible items are dirt cheap or too expensive, and all of the moderate to amazing items are unrealistically expensive. There's no reasonable way to approach this as an undergeared Barbarian who can tear through hell but can't tackle half of act 1 inferno, let alone act 2. Hopefully there's a solution to the need to kite everything (like removing the rediculous enrage timer) or something else that resolves the gold issues. I really would rather not have to rely on gold farming for weeks in easier difficulties to purchase decent gear because it's not fun. It burns a player out really quickly, but it's the path of least resistance as far as spending goes.
That's my two cents, maybe there's a few veteran Barbs that have the solution I'm looking for.