Here's a nice update and some more thoughts and info on how I'm both enjoying and not enjoying Doom so far. Like everything, take the good with the bad yada yada... long post ahead, TLDR = "meh, he's on the grind"...
Just to update this, another 30 hours on top of this has netted me:
Hunter's Headdress
another Holy Knight's Breastplate
The Dragon Slayer
Since then... well, this weekend I've been marathoning in Doom. I've slept 5 hours total, spent about 5 hours outside of game, and about 5 hours outside of Doom. Since then, I've got Helm of Insight, Gauntlets of Nobility, and Axe of the Heavens. So, to recap, so far...
Another 20+ hours for 3 arties worth about a million combined.
Brings my total list (since I started doing Doom), in order, to:
Holy Knight's Breastplate, Legacy of the Dreadlord, Hunter's Headdress, Holy Knight's Breastplate, The Dragon Slayer, Helm of Insight, Gauntlets of Nobility, and Axe of the Heavens.
By my account, of the 33 total Doom Gauntlet artifacts, approximately 10 of them - lets say a third - are worth over a million. Briefly analyzing this further for no particular reason, given values that I selected, gave an average (meaning if you sold one of each for around 120mil total) would average out to 3.64 mil per artifact, all things considered. Obviously, it's skewed a bit Orny AoF Totem etc, otherwise it would be much lower... more like 35.5 mil total, or 1 mil per artifact.
Looking at my list again, it's 8 artifacts so far, which total up to 7.9 mil... or about 1 mil per artifact.
In other words, Doom is basically like playing roulette, at a frantic pace with quiet people for hours on end.
Most of my downtime or time spent out of Doom so far in this marathon has been due to the zergs, meaning the pace is too fast to enjoy and the points are too diluted to be worth it unless you already have them stacked from earlier solo/light grouping.
I've seen a significant decrease in the timesink per artifact though lately, now that I'm using demon + undead mana leech slayers to keep pace with some of the more geared players dps. Currently using 800+ luck. However, melee is just flat out a lot more involved than archer with cu sidhe... said archers sometimes also use you as a tank and you have no other choice... not to mention you arbitrarily kill yourself at the worst possible times if you aren't running script or hands-on-keyboard.5 second reaction time to decurse yourself on Blood Oath since they're meleeing you in the face... and that leads to less damage output than ranged since they aren't cleansing or quaffing pots etc............ but all things considered, I'm having fun with it
I'm just being critical because I'm an honest guy and this is a lot of time to invest for basically inefficient returns (so far). It's a guaranteed gamble, but I dunno how much longer I can justify doing this as a way to gain wealth from actively playing the game, might as well just BOD til my account is veteran. Midgame is desolate here, for the record.
PS - here's pastebin of the arty value list i used to calculate http://pastebin.com/eaQ5H9RC
PPS - the irony is that i have more invested in my gear, which isn't even near top yet, than i have gained from doing Doom so i'm technically still in the red...