I’ve played Diablo 2 online since like 2000, and spent countless hours in trading chats/forums. However in Diablo 2 playing single player and multiplayer were two different experiences. In multiplayer it was much much easier to gear up even without putting in countless hours and finding stuff like super rare runes or perfect torches.
I am currently level 82 in Grim Dawn, playing on Ultimate. Enjoying the hell out of this game, to me it’s what Diablo 3 should have been. I am obviously having RNG troubles, as any of us does. And I feel like trading would break my gaming experience a bit, since I would get some stuff quite easily (looking at you, Ultos set). Plus, all saves in these game are on players’ computers so legitimacy of trading would be another irking question.
So tell me about your experience with trading with other players and how it affected your game and your perception of the game, and what do you think about it in general.
One of the advantages of this type of games is that each one decide how you want to play it.
In one of my first multiplayer experiences, enter a game where a player started dropping legendary on the floor, for reasons…
I decided I did not want that kind of “advantage” in my GD experience. So I left the game and started playing on my own.
When I play multiplayer, I do it with someone who has more or less my same intentions, of how you want your experience to be in GD. For example, every time I want to exchange an item, I give something back. Or I helped my playmate create a relic by donating materials and vice versa.
In short, everyone decides how they want their experience to be in GD. Conscious or not.
I pretty much only started to trade when i got legendary set items that i didn’t wanted to use. So i used those to trade for the legendary set items i wanted.
I liked that the option is there, but it’s not completely necessary to beat the game.
I’m trading (and doing so often) I jump in random trade game. If I see a guy coming into one and dropping stuff on the floor and asking what you want waiting 1-2 minutes and than just saying he has and be ready to give it away from free I know he just did dupe it in a stash organiser or something along those line. I go away.
Most of the trade has been set up from here in the forum looking at people want and checking if I have those item and if I’m ready to drop them. Outside of this the rare stuff I have been getting is cause I paid in Materials (My first char is a Witchblade so I got Hood of Dreeg Dreeg Affliction and Siegebreaker by paying in materials the cost of crafting one). I traded for the Dagger and I dropped the Shoulder and Chest.
My 2nd one is an Arcanist. I had 4 Clairvoyant Wand…Traded some away for piece of Agrivix same as I’m building a Warder and I want to play that Retalation game. I got my hand on the complete Dawnbreaker set (3 from drop 1 from trading) by giving away an Ultos Axe since I had 2. There is piece that just seem to drop for you and other that will never…Man I have 1 lvl 85 character and I have 5 Handguard of Justice…Dismantling or trading for another set piece? I will try to trade for sure.
Depends on your stance on playing self-found or not i guess.
I can understand that some people want to find their build’s pieces by themselves to feel like they’re making progress/becoming stronger or just for the satisfaction etc.
I don’t mind trading personally as it means I can trade away Legendaries i don’t need for ones that I do. If I played entirely self-found, i’de probably still be working on gearing my first or second character rather than my 4th and nearing completion as I am now.
Trading is considered a part of the game mechanic, as it’s implemented in the game. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this.
It’s also pretty helpful, especially when you are collecting some sets. It’s always incouraging to see people help each other.
In no way I consider this as something game breaking. You want to grind for hours? Fine. But that’s just you.
I was happy to trade at first, but given that I play on GOG and that most people are in the US timezone it was becoming tedious to find people to trade with.
Now what I do is check the trading thread, see when somebody has something I need and when I have something they need, toss my item on the ground and get the item I need from GDSidekick. It’s quicker for me and doesn’t affect other people’s gameplay.
Depends on time you have and are willing to invest. I got all legendaries by myself, played since march last year. But MI’s i did get some from other players. That’s another level of farming
There is no ‘trading engine’ in the game. ZERO chatting online, instead it’s just a forum. the odds of trading with someone almost zero. POE is the same way, but it at least had a trade chat in the game. d2 that has a trading engine would be the way to go, but I doubt it would be added.
Im also still missing some items id like to have, but thats maybe one of those things that keeps me playing.
Im trading from time to time to give away an item the game dropped me more than once if someone in the sc legit forum is asking particulary for it. Sometimes its really hard to run a certain build without a key item, and maybe youd like to play this build before its gonna get nerfed (ss cold build will be next, I assume for example).