What sells on the Diablo 3 Auction House?

Diablo has been out for 2 and a half day and I felt it was time to share my speculations based on current experience of what sells on the Diablo 3 Auction House.
This post is mainly dedicated to things that sells on the gold Auction House, since the Real Money Auction House has yet to go live.

My observations so far is as follows. Crafting materials will sell, but the price fluctuates wildly as people go through the content I foresee the normal mode crafting materials becoming really cheap or not selling at all. At this point in time you can still sell them, however here is a small tip. The subtle essence sells for between 20 and 25 gold per item at present and the Fallen Horns are about 40g (This is likely to fall drastically). Most blue items of act 3-4 sells for 100+ gold and you usually only get 1 essence or horn from an item. This means that unless the item value to sell to a merchant is less than 30 I would not recommend salvaging from a pure money perspective. The same goes for Shimmering essence and Lizard Eye with prices on the auction house 30g and 150g. Most items simply sell better to the merchants.

What can you earn money on then you ask? Well so far I have been selling the Jewelcrafting and Blacksmithing pages. The first goes for between 300 and 500 gold at the moment and the blacksmithing ones goes for 1400-1500 gold. These prices are likely to drop significantly, so now is the time to sell off pages. You can always pick some up cheap later on. Gems is another thing that sells, albeit it is dependant on the quality. Unless you sell really cheap I don't think you can get rid of chipped ones and regardless, it is more profitable to upgrade them and sell them on. I have yet to delve too much into the gem marked, but a flawless ruby sells for between 2000 and 3000 gold at present. I am holding on to mine though, hoping to upgrade them and auction them for a higher profit.

Last item I have been selling is dyes. I found a random NPC vendor that sold them and picked up a few. Sadly I didn't stock up on them as they sold like hot buns. At this point however, everyone has picked up on the dyes and they no longer sell for a real profit, if at all.

I just entered Act 2 on Nightmare and I am sitting on about 320k gold.
Not as much as I would like, but I will keep pushing the gold limit as I foresee the Real Money Auction House mainly be good for gold transactions.

How much gold can you make in D3 in 24 hours?

It has been a little over 24 hours since Diablo first went live and it is time for a status update. Unfortunately I was kicked from the server before I could take screenshots, so they will have to follow tomorrow. So far my Wizard is level 27. I am halfway through act 3 and I have earned approximately 100k gold. I have not spent much money on anything besides repairs. I leveled my Blacksmith to level 2 so I could get some proper gear at the lower levels, but now I haven't touched him since. The 100k gold is going up on the Real Money Auction House as soon as it is unlocked. Hopefully I can get it sold.

Diablo 3 - Act 2 Run Through

This post will be work in progress as I battle my way through act 2 of D3. I can say one thing, it is definitely getting harder so the promise that we will die is very real.

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Diablo 3 Live - Act 1 Run-Through - Spoilers

I finally managed to get online after almost 2 hours of attempting and when I finally managed to get in I figured I had to get something out of the opportunity even if it was already quite late. So here I am at 4:30 am in the morning ready to share videos of the entire first act in Diablo 3.
The videos are unedited and the sound is a bit weird, but if you are interested in seing a Wizard battling through the start of the game then this is for you.

I wont give any spoilers in this text, but if you watch the videos there obviously are tons. What I will say though is that the last boss was quite the surprise and extremely epic! :D (last video might not be done with importing yet. I just threw the link as soon as I could and it seems it is not loading. Hopefully it will be up soon.)

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Diablo Error 37

So here we are, almost 1 hour after the European Launch of the long awaited Diablo 3 and first impressions are abundant.....well in truth, most of us haven't actually managed to log into the game yet. The dreaded Error 37 is hitting people in the face when they try to log in, Blizzards official Diablo forum is flooded with angry rage threads demanding to know why Blizzard has not learned from previous releases.

I think they have though. The thing to remember when you think about launches and companies like Blizzard is that they have to make a choice at some point, deciding how many resources they can spend on login servers. Now on release day there might be a gazzilion players logging in at the exact same time, warrenting a very huge login server capacity, but will that really be necessary a day from now? A week from now? A month from now?

I think Blizzard made a calculated risk and assumed that people while annoyed with not being able to login, will still enjoy the game enough to forgive an hour or 2 of queue time.

That is of course my opinion and I don't know much about server structures etc., but to me it makes business and logistical sense.

Now I'd better be able to log in!

Diablo 3 launch night preparation

Tonight is the night when it all happens. In about 6 hours I will be logging in to play Diablo 3!
Here are a couple of tips to help prepare.

Pre-Install

The early install has started and if you sorted out the downloader, you will be able to install right now. That way you will be able to hit the game a 23.00 GMT sharp.
Also as a side note. If you get a message saying Unable to initialise streaming or createstreamingmanifest::getstreamingmanifestcontents then there is a couple of things you can try before you panic.
Make sure you run the installer as admin and if that doesn't work try again, try again, try again. I had to start my installer 7 times before it actually worked and with more and more people hitting the servers I expect that others will run in to similar issues.

Prep Snacks and Food for D3 gaming night

You don't really want to have to break off gaming early to go shop for food and snacks do you? I thought not. You have 6 hours to stock up on vital things like drinks, sweets and proper food. Do it now!
Here is my stash of snacks for Diablo 3. I don't actually like the standard gamer nutrients like soda and crisps which is why this might look slightly stange to you.

There is always room for Kinder Eggs and hot chocolate though ;)

Free up space on your D3 drive

If at all possible, make sure to free up space on your Diablo drive. The downloader is 7.something GB and the game itself is 15gb+

On a final note. I will be streaming my gaming experience live as soon as I am able to log in, so if you are at work and can't play or in another unfortunate situation that makes it impossible to log in, you can still get a dose of D3. The link to my LiveStream is here.

Time to slay some Demons!

D3 Real Money Auction House fees

Big news has been revealed about the RMAH(Real Money Auction House) in Diablo 3. Blizzard has come out and told us exactly how big fees will be associated with putting up auctions and it is actually not looking too bad in my opinion.

For items such as weapon and armor you will pay a flat fee of $1 if it sells.
For Gems, Gold and Materials it will be a 15% of the sales price.
There will also be a 15% fee to cash out to PayPal, something you can avoid paying if you just let the money go directly into your Battle.net Balance.
Finally the maximum sales price of an item will be $250

While the flat fee on weapons means that only really nice items will be viable for the RMAH, money, gems and materials will still be great for earning cash.

All in all I think Blizzard has made a good decission on the fee-level.

Another announcement was made as well that is putting a stick in my wheel though.

Remember how I was going to see how much I can earn on the first week as I have a very inconvenient holiday booked from the 21st of May?  Well, Blizzard has announced that there will be no RMAH for the first week after launch.

Quite annoying, however I will get around it by stockpiling resources and level as high as I can. Hopefully I will have Internet in my hotel so I can put things up for sale still.

If you are curious about Auction house fee calculations, then check out the nice little calculater Diablo Fans has put together.