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Originally Posted by Crover_CT99
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If you look at the game by design, your Barb isn't really doing all that bad.
Both the SBD and the Gloom Poon drop off mobs in their 30s, so "realistically" you wouldn't have yet had the chance to earn these items yourself, and thus the prices should probably be out of your current reach.
Back at release melees would experience a progression more like this:
1-10: patchwork/rawhide/leather, rusty/bronze (bronze if lucky) weapons
10-20: chain/banded/black iron/bronze armor, bronze/fs/combine (used to be leet!) weapons
-maybe a unique magic drop
20-30: +steel plate/rubicite if lucky
-handful of unique magic drops
30+: generally start to fill out slots with unique gear one by one
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This is exactly the way my SK progression was, with one exception. Someone gave me a stiletto of the bloodclaw at level 15 or so, which isn't that impressive of a weapon but it was a huge upgrade from my cracked staff at the time. Other than that, every piece of gear I acquired was farmed by me except for a dark reaver which was well within my power of farming within a group by the time I got it. In fact if I look at it, it looks like I was behind the curve in most categories.
As far as the retarded prices, well, I blame that primarily on poor game design with a lack of money sinks, but there's also the twinks that ruin the market for newer players.