Improving gear is one of the core aspects of Diablo 4. However, this can cost a lot of gold – but something should change with Season 4.
To adapt items to the build and make them stronger, there is the option to re-roll affixes at the Occultist. However, because there are so many different affixes, “rolling” can cost well over 100 million gold before the right one appears on an item.
Many players criticize that the system is “arbitrarily complex” – some joke about unnecessary affixes as “The ultimate ‘damage on Tuesday’ add-on”. The developers plan adjustments to the loot system for Season 4. They also want to change the gold costs for enchanting items.
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Gold costs for enchantments will have a cap
How does enchanting work so far? At the Occultist in Diablo 4, you can enchant individual items, also known as “re-rolling”, to adapt the affixes to your build. To do this, you place the item in the free slot, select the affix that should be swapped, and click “Enchant”.
Depending on the rarity of the item, certain materials (Faded Crystal, Forgotten Souls, Devil’s Roses) and a lot of gold will be needed. And the more often you re-roll an affix, the more the gold costs increase.
A player hoped for a special enchantment for his item. Therefore, he spent over a hundred million gold to improve his items, but he was bitterly disappointed.
What is supposed to get better? The developers stated in the “Campfire Chat” livestream on March 20 that the gold costs for “rolling” (enchanting) affixes on items will have a cap and will no longer scale “infinitely”.
Where the cap will be is not clear so far. But that there will be one at all is already good news.
Many players will be familiar with the enormous gold costs required for rolling affixes. Each click on the “Enchant” button, because this one affix just won’t appear, increases the costs.
What else is changing in Season 4 regarding loot? Not only will there be a cap for gold costs when enchanting, but there will also be a general overhaul of the affixes. In Season 4, there will be a smaller pool of affixes, which should remove unnecessary effects.
In the last livestream, the developers specifically explained how they want to adjust the loot system, as for them “quality over quantity” counts: Blizzard finally shows how the most important aspect of Diablo 4 is to get better: loot
