In Diablo 4, you need gold for everything possible. This should be familiar to any Diablo player, but unlike the popular predecessors, gold is scarce in Diablo 4. At the same time, almost everything is expensive. This frustrates fans who wish for improvement.
Why is gold so important?
- You need gold in Diablo 4 to craft gems, extract legendary aspects, or craft legendaries. Also, if you want to buy strong items, it easily costs a million or more.
- Additionally, you have to pay quite a bit if you want to respec your character.
- However, the most expensive are enchantments. Those who want the perfect ring or amulet can quickly pay several billions.
Why is this a problem? Finding the perfect build is the goal of many players in Diablo 4. However, to do so, they must constantly adjust their skills, rearrange the paragon boards and points, and enchant their gear.
All of this costs gold, and in the case of enchantments, the costs even increase with each new attempt on the same item. There are reports from players who have to pay over 100 million for a single reroll.
Enchantments allow you to reroll a value on an item. You can then choose from two random values that can appear on the item. The issues here are:
- the same value can appear again
- worse values can show up
- the same value can appear multiple times, so you effectively have no change
- the game does not show you which values are possible
Especially when refining or perfecting a build, this quickly costs millions or billions. Players complain: one cannot farm that much gold.
You can find the best builds in our tier list for Diablo 4. In the video, we reveal when it is worth selling items. This way, you at least get a little more money:
Gold used to be unimportant; now there is not enough
As user seanbud on Reddit describes, the high gold costs are not the main problem. Worse is that there are no real ways to get a lot of gold.
Hard bosses like the Butcher drop very little gold, there is no gold find bonus on gear like before, and the greed shrine only grants a few hundred gold per enemy, if you’re lucky. Also, the goblin cave from Diablo 3, where you could easily farm millions, is missing.
It is particularly questionable that you have to craft gems for several tens of thousands of gold. However, when you want to sell them back to a vendor, they are only worth a few gold coins. Players refer to this as greed.
Getting rich doesn’t work this way. Without a “jackpot,” it is not possible to make gold. Hundreds of users agree that buffs are needed here, especially for the nearly useless greed shrine.
This is especially curious because gold is traditionally the “least important currency” in Diablo 4. It went so far that in earlier parts of Diablo, players switched to other currencies.
Instead of offering vast sums of gold for anything, players paid with runes in the endgame – or with a famous ring, which even Blizzard had to acknowledge:
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