"Perfect" Item Ads

a week ago there was an upped

Skin of the Vipermagi taged as perfect for sale.
Stats where like Def 836/1034, AR 35/35 and MDR 12/13

I completely disagree, and I find it annoying to have to “browse” through offers this way. It just wastes my time, even though the tag is actually supposed to save time by using filters.

What do you guys think about this one?

Edit: it´s still listed and Stats are Def 930/1034, AR 35/35 and MDR 12/13

Alsadius wrote: 2 hours ago

IMO, you should only list it as perfect if all the relevant rolls are perfect.

That's exactly the problem - nobody agrees on what the relevant rolls are. The more rolls an item has, the bigger the dissent is. You can just read this very thread, there are several different ideas presented in here, and some people got very defensive about it. Everyone has different ideas. No matter what you think it should be, there will be a multitude of people disagreeing with you. Who defines what perfect means for every item that exists in the game?

The person who made this site deliberately defined the tag to mean "'perfect or near perfect'", precisely for the reason that there is so many opinions on it.

You (as in all of the users of this site, not just you personally) will never be able to reach an agreement on this matter. There is no one answer that everyone will be happy with.

I wonder what percentage of people using the trading section of .io actually use tags at all. They are not particularly newcomer-friendly, and I would wager that even a large proportion of long-time users do not use them.

So we are already talking about a subset of traders, and the complaint is then that some members of that subset are using a subjective tag incorrectly. But it has been pointed out many times over the years that a single “perfect” tag cannot cover every possible interpretation of perfection.

We could possibly introduce categories such as “build-perfect”, “trade-perfect”, and “collector-perfect”.
An Infinity might be considered build-perfect at -55% enemy lightning resistance in a normal base, or at 325% enhanced damage in an elite base. A 325/-55 Infinity might be called trade-perfect, while a collector-perfect version could require 340% enhanced damage, -55% enemy lightning resistance, 3 attack rating (but not 15% max durability? Already problematic). The categories would quickly become complicated and open to further disagreement. And you are back to square one.

And here's my subjective 2 cents. Diablo2.io is primarily a community site with up-to-date game information, with trading attached. It is not primarily a highly structured item marketplace even though some of us will use it as such. If someone wants to search specifically for 100% items, perfect runeword rolls and perfect bases, whatever “perfect base” means for each particular build or collector, they will probably have better results on Traderie or the-other-site.