I am curious how most of the users here feel about buying/selling unidentified legendaries. When you seen an Echoing Fury drop do you ID it hoping to turn a billion gold sale? or pawn it off to someone sight unseen taking the guaranteed but payoff of a few million?

Which legendaries are the best bet to turn into something sell-able? which are sell-able unidentified but likely enough to be a brim that you would rather just get rid of them them? Do you just like "unwrapping" the items like buying a lotto ticket? Does it matter if the item might be useful to one of you characters if it rolls well? If you do sell them how much do you ask? If you buy other people's unID's which ones do you look for and how much are you willing to pay?

Personally I like the lotto ticket aspect. I tend to ID everything myself hoping that this time it might be that jackpot itme that I could never afford to buy on my own (or that will payoff well enough that I can actually afford that billion gold item.) Recently however my bad luck with rolls has me toying with the idea of starting to sell some of them unidentified.

I think generally there are three groups of players:

Group 1: Players with Uber farming gears and billions of gold
Group 2: Players with "OK" farming gears and millions of gold
Group 3: Players who are less efficient in farming due to lack of gold to purchase good farming gears (I am not commenting about players who are inefficient due to not having an efficient farming route, or a build not suited for farming, these need to fixed first if their focus is on farming)

Generally speaking again,

Group 1 would like to buy UNID with their endless gold, and hope to strike an upgrade to them which is not available at AH. They wouldn't want to sell UNID if they are really D3 players, unless they just want to get gold and sell gold fast.

Group 3, the last group with less efficient farming gears, would probably want to sell their UNID, get the gold and buy them upgrades so that they can move upwards to Group 2

Group 2 is in between.

Personally I think I am in Group 2, and my preference is not to buy UNID and not to sell UNID. I enjoy upwrapping them and hope I strike an upgrade, or a few millions items. So far this has been working well for me at Hardcore (including a trifecta rare ring sold for 250m, a BT pants sold for 127.5m, and currently an IK helm valued at 150-200m, and etc etc).

If you are selling them UNID, make sure you sell to some nice reputable players. I know, from reading the forums, that some buyers are very kind, if they hit a good item after UNID they will actually tip you!

Note the above exclude comments about AH flipping - something which will accelerate your gold balance and move you to new groups......

Group 3 is exactly what the original dev team thinks is wrong with the game. I have always been the person to ID my Legendaries and I always will. While I don't farm efficiently enough to have self-found Legendaries, I actually am using a self-found amulet and offhand on my Barb and I definitely feel happy when I see them. I always hope for the same with some AR IK helm or IAS IK gloves or a dual socket Manticore. :-)

You forgot a group.

Group 4: Players like me who are degenerate gamblers, and just want to flip the item for more gold, perhaps to sell on the RMAH or just to look at ever inflating billions. (lol)

No, actually I enjoy gambling in real life, having won and lost many tens of thousands of dollars in the past 15 years. For example, when I buy an unID Mempo for 35 million gold, it's very similar to a slot machine pull or a scratch-off ticket. At the current gold price of 2.5 cents per million, this works out to an 87.5 cent "bet".

The "jackpot" is 2 billion gold ($25 bucks) for that 6% critical chance version. It's fun, inexpensive, and harmless. It also helps group 2 and 3. This is why I do not agree with nor understand Jay Wilson's comments.

I could never not know what I got, I ID everything. But even if I wanted to sell unid I couldn't, because the chat system is so screwed up being in Australia every time I click on a trade room I would be lucky to have 5 people in it. I used to have Americans invite me to a trade room just to see what's going on. Add that to the list of crap to fix Blizzard.

But that being said with my luck, I would be alot further in the game by now if I did sell unid. With all the brim that rains on me, found 18 drops in a day back at paragon 30. I could not use or sell a single thing.

Posted by DePablo at 05/14/2013 11:46 AM

You forgot a group.

Group 4: Players like me who are degenerate gamblers, and just want to flip the item for more gold, perhaps to sell on the RMAH or just to look at ever inflating billions. (lol)

No, actually I enjoy gambling in real life, having won and lost many tens of thousands of dollars in the past 15 years. For example, when I buy an unID Mempo for 35 million gold, it's very similar to a slot machine pull or a scratch-off ticket. At the current gold price of 2.5 cents per million, this works out to an 87.5 cent "bet".

The "jackpot" is 2 billion gold ($25 bucks) for that 6% critical chance version. It's fun, inexpensive, and harmless. It also helps group 2 and 3. This is why I do not agree with nor understand Jay Wilson's comments.

Yea, I am slowly moving towards group 4. I have been buying UNID Inna Helms at Hardcore.

There are very few legendaries that I can not sell for more than the going price of a brimstone. I only have like 80 brimstones and I have only used like 25 to craft amulets that one time. So over 800 hours of playing my wizard I have made about 100 brimstones.