Blizzard Addresses Diablo 4 Gold Issues

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#diablo4 #masterworking #patch #raxxanterax #maxroll

[@malyman316]

is it me or they actually start to make diablo 4 enjoyable experience

[@MrRemi1992]

It's not just you. This is the first season I'm level 97 and I see myself getting to 100 on my necro. Literally everything just feels better: leveling, gearing, getting useful gear etc it actually feels like a AAA action RPG and I'm all here for it

[@Ichiban_Kasuga.]

No it's not just you it's definitely much better. I actually feel like I'm making progress now 😅

[@anba9499]

Look at us getting excited for the bare minimum

[@TT09B5]

@@anba9499 Pretty much and after reading this company forces DEI through every step of the way.. I know why so many mistakes where made.

[@anba9499]

@@TT09B5 this sounds like AI born on reddit

[@aXsEpsilon769]

What i want from them if they can implement it asap is to add sell buttons on the vendor "all rare" "all items". Too much clicking just to sell junk is a bit annoying imo. Marking as junk then selling is the same as click to sell + 1.

[@gadsanchez4929]

Youre doing it wrong mate, just mark as favorite the items you want to keep > sell all items

[@cycleproduction3527]

@@gadsanchez4929 There is no Sell All button. That's the issue. There's only Salvage all.

[@InkLink]

where is the sell all button ​@@gadsanchez4929

[@khalhorik]

a Sell All button would be awesome

[@Zamerick13]

@@gadsanchez4929 Theres no "sell all" button on the merchants. Only on salvaging.

[@JessexAdam]

Don’t skip the iron wolves and seasonal journey! It’s a bit of a grind but the final tier gives “free” master working materials. I don’t see enough people saying this.

[@johnmcguire5212]

I feel they need to look at the tempers rolls, i've bricked 16 crossbows, 14 swords all mostly by rolling the same affix 5/6 times

[@MixMeister5000]

RNG is RNG

[@mrbuIIets]

All of my masterwork rolls ahve been to the bottom half of desired affixes. And don't even get me started on the amount of axes I've bricked trying to roll 'chance to spawn two tornadoes' for my werenado build. I'm hoping for some kind of a fix, because if I''m going to keep grinding the Pit, I'm not gonna do it it many times over, 3-4 hours of grinding are nullified by bad RNG. I'll just go play something else.

[@divinothy]

yeah, they need to make the currently affix not reroll again, fucking annoying trying to reroll a new affix and keep coming the exact same thing

[@haylonix]

Yeah bricking a 3 greater affix item with no possibility of recovery feels extremely bad.

[@bullandbarrett9690]

What’s wild is when it’s a 3 roll manual and you get the same one 5 times. That’s a buzzkill

[@Thorgrimn]

This season has been solid. The only other issues are how CDR is next to impossible to roll on gear with enchanting costs so you almost have to find CDR on the gear. But overall having a good time playing.

[@affirazer]

This bothers me so much. They deleted all the useless stats but instead make relevant stats 10x more rare so it ends up basically the same. Some stats being rarer also isnt explained in the game is super unintuive. I rolled 50m until I started to think cdr must be much rarer.

[@tras7983]

@@affirazer Yeah cdr for sure is way rarer to enchant and roll naturally

[@apoc9ify]

Also even with less items dropping, you are still dropping more or same amount of items as before. While the items are better quality than before, in the endgame you are interested only in those with greater affixes. The fact I killed lvl 200 duriel 7 times and it dropped same garbage as before, but only more of it. Only one crappy greater affix item with 2 affixes and few with one. Rerolling stats is even more expansive than before, because it is almost impossible to hit some niche stats such as plus to certain skill and with less gold even if it is numerically less gold required it is as devastating as before. Greater affix on cooldown reduction i have seen that only in planner. Same sh.. as in S3, when grinding for good amulet it took me weeks to get one with the right stats. Also the fact you can buy the best item in the game and then completely bonk it by tempering is downright worse than you could fail on masterwork and start over again. This problem is diferent magnitude depending if the plan has 3 or 5 options and on some items it feels the stats tend to lean towards certain skills/build. Rerolling temper should give you option like rerolling stats to pick new or keep the old at least or the reward for risking bonking item should be greater like second temper of previously tempered affix should be higher .

[@max6jay]

Yea I have 2 necro so far one LVL 100 minion and 1 LVL 89 shadow....neither of them have ever rolled golem mastery on armor and passive on amulet...at this point I only use the piece if it rolled on it or just give it up completely.

[@Orion3T]

I think there's a possible bug - after getting to about level 80 without finding a single CDR Helmet or +Skill Gauntlet I did some searching and my experience matched the following - they are both extremely rare possibly impossible to get on normal drops, however they seem to roll at about the expected rate from Helltide chests and Whisper caches. As soon as I read this I went into Helltide and opened about 3-4 Gauntlet Chests and got quite a lot of +Skill drops including the one I needed. I didn't seem able to find any Helmet Chests on that run but I got a CDR Helm from a Whisper Cache not much later, though the helm was otherwise rubbish so I ended up managing to roll it on another helm with Enchanting. So I think there might be something fishy going on with what stats can roll from different sources, not sure if intentional or not.

[@jeffreydhill]

You're literally THE source for ARPG need-to-know info. Thanks Raxx

[@G1ggl3z]

I felt like Dutch Van der Linde, I'm out the point on my 100 where after getting a inventory full of legendarys: Go to the smith, only salvage codexs upgrades and sell the rest

[@DeanMurphyCDM]

This is the way.

[@briza_md]

How dare you mention that man

[@MrPFMneto]

"just one more score, Arthur!"

[@kavanhyland7942]

I feel like pit and dungeon gold returns should scale a bit more. Getting 200k for a level 85 pit is literally less than what some gear sells for. To upgrade a piece of gear to rank 9 it costs 2m

[@gaspara9817]

It needs to drop more loot or more gold. Blizzard seems to think that The Pit is only meant to be for farming masterworking materials but most of the player base wants it to be the standard end game loop.

[@retorique]

That's why you sell any legendaries with zero max affixes. 2mil is nothing after one trip to town. The finishing rewards could certainly be better, but I find gold is mostly fine as it is right now. It's not scarse but you have to keep an eye on it.

[@alemayehusolomon941]

That's correct. A single staff of the Crone from Zir sells for 500k plus.

[@Pl4sm0]

Not sure you guys, but I think that enchanting still cost to much, I spent almost 25mi trying to get a +2 def skills on chest piece :(

[@Burningwoodz]

why not just give us everything at level 1 ?

[@MsBrunoVarela]

​@@Burningwoodzyou haven't played right ? A lv 100 whisper is giving about 3 Mil and a NM 60 is giving about 300k, the pit give like 30k. So you have to do 10 whisper to get 1 reroll in 1 item, doesn't make sense

[@justjoddat]

@@Burningwoodz enchanting cost scaling is pretty ridiculous and has nothing to do with giving us everything

[@bobbobb5759]

? why not just ask for max tier gear of everything for nothing. Seems thats what half of you want. Just start at lvl 100, max gear, all ubers. why not? lmao

[@johnbracewell3700]

​@bobbobb5759 this, people truly hate having to grind anything. They want big numbers and they want them NOW!

[@edrueter9]

Side question, is there an online resource somewhere that says what can drop at what level of the pit, in terms of items? For example does tier 30 drop 4 items, and 60 drops 6? I remember GR90 from D3 was ideal, as an example. Is there such a sweet spot in the Pit?

[@johnwoodard8717]

I think the answer to the gold issue is beyond simple: Add more whispers to the Helltide. I remember Blood Harvest and cashing in twice each round. You had to earn it, but it wasn't such a tedious grind.

[@xlGoDzlxHadez]

We had so much gold for little to no work in season of blood. The whispers were being completed without even thinking about it

[@MrFloat777]

Or just do what I do and buy 2 bil for $5

[@danieljackson5687]

You can sell gear to vendors.. I make 1-2 mill per full inventory from helltides. Only sal the items that are a upgrade of your power in the r codex

[@SaneMillennial]

@@danieljackson5687 Yeah I've been selling some of my more pricey gear if I don't need the aspects from them.

[@RunicGG]

Hey Raxx, From all your characters so far what have you enjoyed the most? I'm trying out a Melee rouge build rn pushing pit 80 i hope to get it to 100+

[@michaelmackrill6917]

I'm a dad, and I'm not a casual player. I'm 54 , been playing since the age of 8 . I'm an extremist for these types of games and will take blood from a stone if I have to and have an austere mind that is drugged up on gaming. Gaming is my drug of choice. My son says I'm too old to game . Well, I told him there is no age limit to gaming. I had a very good feeling about diablo 4 season 4 . I had discerned it was Blizzards lifeline and got a W from me. Your dad or mom were they gamers ? Cheers, and may your day be a good one .

[@DeanMurphyCDM]

I hoped/knew I wasn’t alone although comparatively, I slacked on getting started - was the grand old age of 11 😅 Bliz have done good with S4 (so far).

[@faaeday]

My dad got me into gaming when he introduced me to the OG Diablo when I was 7 years old. 25 years later we still are playing Diablo together :) We are both enjoying this season.

[@michaelmackrill6917]

@faaeday That's amazing. It's lovely to know

[@mach2922]

In case no has mentioned it, the video thumbnail is GENIUS (I think Rax mentioned at one point his brother makes em; shoutout to Facefoot)

[@MrQWEEEERTY]

hey man I want to thank you for your guides on necro minion build it helped me alot.

[@alanrogers733]

do you have a crafting guide out yet? ive not noticed one but wondered if it was hiden inside a live stream maybe. i find myself unsure of the best order to do bits to ensure i dont waste the mats i can gather

[@warmachinex81]

im enjoying this season playing on/off over 2 day necro is at 65, bunch of unique (ive never had in previous plays) question when can i upgrade my gear (2 stars/3 stars/4 stars etc) used to be able to do that from the start now i cant do that, is that now reserved for end game??? thanks for your time.

[@stepatdis]

I appreciate your point about needing to have something to work towards, ex the gems. My challenge is, with as much as you have played you can't even craft 1, what hope do the rest of us have.

[@Deadknight67]

It also seems they fixed the multi elixir thing. I can't stack the Regular elixir with the seasonal and the quest item one.

[@SimonBeller-sm6pu]

simple fix... add gold caches for whisper turn ins. Example sometimes instead of 3 gear choices it might be 2 gear caches and 1 gold cache. Other one would be adding a gold chest in helltides that is opened by cinders.

[@AzurePursuer]

does anyone know if bone storm duration has a cap? I cant find it in the effects on character stats. (maybe I'm blind)

[@antrocactus]

I just subscribed to your channel, thanks for the content, it helped me a lot 🤝

[@Ray-mq6cy]

Hi Raxx it’s everyone. Thanks for saying what absolutely needs to said , things to look forward to are actually a GOOD thing .

[@sindre.]

Just starting the Pit so only at 21 but breezing through (for now). The season has been a pleasant improvement and I do enjoy most of the gameplay. I agree with the gems, I'm at level 97atm and can comfortably do ND 75 so haven't felt the need for Royal gems yet. However, what I would like the most (as long as the gold is so sparse) is a sell all button. Even just "sell all rare items" would help a lot. It's a minor thing, but the one that sort of stands out for me. I'm not a game dev so no idea if this is hard to do, but since they did it with salvage I assume it can't be crazy difficult. And since you can reverse the sale it wouldn't be risky for the player either, which "salvage all" can be. That being said, I'm actually having much fun playing atm and thanks for the content as always, man. I have appreciated it since the D3 challenge rifts tutorials which saved me a ton of time. Thanks!

[@jaweel6205]

Yeah bro this season I didn’t use a build guide and my level 85 character was clearing tier 65 nm dungeons relatively quick without issue. Ive barely touched or upgraded the ancestrals I found when getting to wt IV

[@sindre.]

@@jaweel6205 that’s awesome! Happy monster hunting and keep at it with your OG build! 🙌🏻

[@onetwo5120]

I agree, if blizzard wants D4 to be a streamer and mega grinders only game, they should listen to you. But if they want the other 99% to play the game they should cut the costs of EVERYTHING drastically.

[@jeffj.r.3532]

Hey Raxx, you going to make a build guide for your DS Dust Devils Barb? Thanks for the content.

[@briomhar5229]

He already did brother kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4TbcmRoeLSBqbc

[@bullandbarrett9690]

The speed with which you come out with videos on updates to the game is astounding. At the end of the day all this stuff is just for a video game but the value you provide quite impressive.

[@Olson34]

Hey raxx in your last video you talked about stacking potions did this get fixed in the patch they released?

[@user-cq1fz7mh4j]

No it’s unchanged

[@MrFloat777]

@@user-cq1fz7mh4jwhat do you mean stacking potions

[@critzandgiggles]

When are we getting the button that lets us keep our previous Tempering roll like Enchanting?

[@Anu_was_here]

But, for one hour farming yellow mats @ 60T… would the T61 legendary mats conversion rate will yield me more or equal yellows,”? Maybe it’s still more efficient to do T60 rather than higher tier.

[@Donniecaison]

I wish they would fix the bug with the Druid unique necklace that enables the boulder build. It randomly stops working, and I'm forced to leave the zone and come back constantly.

[@mathew00]

Hi Raxx, I'd love to have a "Intro to the new progression" guide. I have two characters in mid 80s so I haven't done Pit or Masterworking yet. Just trying to understand what I will be doing to progress after 100.

[@Nawdy369]

Your doing a awesome job covering diablo 4 this season. Appreciate your content, fellow hoodie lover.

[@TheTwitchyBrownGuy]

Excellent, I just got to tier 29 for the pit!

[@brandodakilla]

Imo i think tempering stats shouldn't vary or repeat itself even if some values lower, might helpwith bricking items less

[@b.banner_hulk6867]

The part I hate right now is I've had 5 different greater affix weapons and every time I brick it trying to temper. I can't get the chance to cast dust devils twice and run out of tries...

[@BigArt8844]

Been going through the pit kinda hit a wall with my barb. Trying to get all my gear 8/12 to see if I can overcome said wall

[@NhuQuynh-nv7fp]

Most build hits a wall at about 60 until you can upgrade your gear

[@JozaMuva]

They should make more inventory tabs on character sheet so we can differentiate elixirs from boss mats and nightmare sigils. one tab for each of those. Wouldn't that be nice?

[@vyktorzhuravlev8304]

I would like more synergies or triggers where one skill activateth another like in the Last Epoch. For example when the vine activateth the landslide or when werewolf companions can use rabies, etc.

[@rjoneswv23]

There should be some kind of material that lets me guarantee a tempering affix that you can grind for. So tired of bricking items I’ve grinded hours for. Maybe a resplendent spark?

[@Domaorn]

how about you suggest to them for master working.... when masterworking.. give a yes/no option to reset the tempering..

[@charlesjewell2757]

I feel like adding some gold to the end chest of a pit run would be helpful. Maybe something like the average amount of gold that is collected from a single NM dungeon.

[@warrgoddess8029]

Agree with u about the gem, also if u get better gear u can take out the gem and use it in the new gear so is not a problem

[@Valsedar]

This is a good change because I wasn't a big fan of running to 30 pit repeatedly because my mastercraft decided to roll on maximum essence instead of movement speed lol

[@Smashingg]

Great to see this game getting better. UX/UI wise there can be lots more of improvements honestly, hope they are into that as well

[@reedb5696]

I would like the gold costs to remain the same for masterworking upgrades but I would like a way to target farm more gold. I like that different content has different rewards. Maybe make whispers give 5x the amount they currently give (since they are already the main "efficient" gold source) or make pits give lots of gold to make up for the lack of loot. Also, they could greatly reduce the drop rates of yellows in wt4 and replace them with their gold and veil equivalent so that people don't need to pick them up to sell them.

[@rumvirus7057]

With the new tempering system does uniques feel alittle weak now?

[@Tom-xr4qy]

No its just feels the fuckng super hard greedy now. Because the uniques always has greater affixes. Yesterday i got double affixes unique amulet for frozen orb sorc. Imagine how many houses i need to find uber with greater affixes. Fckn trash.

[@Chris-zg7ty]

What about the mats for socketing items? Those seem non-existent.

[@EtBr1978]

Yesterday I had around 50 gem shards drop, today it was around 250. Did they change that as well or did I just see something that was not there?

[@lukanic]

I think that relate to your lvl, I was getting only 70 on low lvls now on 100 its about 230

[@echohawk1]

I just want to know if they fixed whispers at T4, incredibly demotivating to have that bugged tbh :/

[@alekzt1983]

how about price for resetting masterworking of 5 mil? i almost got broke in 2 mins...

[@Tommynbd]

I think it’s really nice to see them identify problems quickly and made a change even though it’s not the biggest change. Hoping they tone down some gold costs.

[@roohni2226]

Honestly bricking a 3ga item because one of the tempers decided to go roll 5 times in a row into cutthroat crit chance while im aiming for vulnerable feels so bad.

[@mudpuppy8740]

They need to address the cost of enchanting. Especially for helms trying to get cooldown is a nightmare. Also turning a perfect 925 drop I was excited to get into a worthless vendor piece by bricking the forge roll isn’t great

[@heliobarbosa3525]

That's good. I agree with most takes. Deep down, gems need an adjustment if you consider that now the game is fun and you might have alts. Overall, it is nice to have some scarcity here and there. Some things feel broken tho, like having to drop sigils or having to do one activity to get stuff (socket thing, world bosses).

[@KyloB]

Is it true that you only need 9230 armour now for max physical damage reduction in all endgame content like pits etc?

[@pursuitolikes5217]

Yes.

[@KyloB]

@@pursuitolikes5217 is there any way to see that in game? Like how elemental resistances work for example but for armour? If you know what I mean - like how the elemental resistances say they max at 70% All I can see is that it specifically says there's a max physical damage reduction of 85% when taking damage from things *equal to your level* so what about the level 150+ monsters?

[@tjk_9000]

I've gone to do "something" basic multiple times this season, just to realize I'm actually short on gold. which is stark compared to last season when everyone was flush

[@michaelbrown3188]

Did I just see a timely balance patch coming from Blizzard based on feedback? My day is greatly improved indeed. 👏

[@VicJang]

I completely agree that both gold and gems should have value and be somewhat rare. If they made gold too easily available, the entire “trading with gold” economy won’t work. We need some kind of current that has a controlled supply, like soj and runes. Since we don’t have those, the supplies for gold and gems should stay how they are right now. Maybe tune the Masterworking cost a bit? But I certainly don’t want 1 billion gold per whisper reward.

[@henley1438]

When are they going to fix the smoldering ashes bug? I'm lvl 89 with 3 ashes... and no logging out and back in does not fix this.

[@markj.a351]

As one of the casual dad gamers, the gold bottleneck is ruining what would be a great season. Instead of pushing the pit or doing anything else i want to do, I find myself farming gold. It feels like being forced to do the old helltides

[@MrLove-ty1si]

A Casual dad shouldn't even be doing the Pit, most of them are still clearing the Campaign. ;-)

[@Khrann]

@@MrLove-ty1siCasuals dads are not bad players, are players with not much time to play. ARPGS Diablo like are usually not difficult games, they only require tons of hours to sink into. I read everywhere that the game became too easy, but it’s always been easy, people confuse time with difficulty. 1-100 in 20 hours is not easier than 1-100 in 40 hours, it only takes less time.

[@Kootsworth]

@@Khrann you're mixing up fast levelling with easy gameplay. The game has gotten easier and easier since it released, and that's due to a mix of power creep and constant rebalancing.

[@johntipling842]

Collect all items and, rather than break down for mats, sell to vendors. Also make sure that you complete Whispers, as you get £1m-2m gold there. There's absolutely no reason to be short of gold this season and it's not a bad thing to have some things that aren't handed to you on a plate, IMHO!

[@Khrann]

@@Kootsworth The game has never been difficult apart from the early Uber Lilith (because of the stupid combat design) and the early last tiers of Nightmare Dungeons. It's a game design choice. You either choose the PoE/LE route where the endgame starts way before the level cap, that is not important at all, or you choose the D3 path where everything starts when you reach max level. If D4 wants to go the D3 route, 1-100 HAS to be as fast as possible. But in the beginning, when 80-100 took forever, the game was not difficult, it just took forever because the XP gain per mob killed was ridiculously low.

[@5280Recreation]

The change is good. Masterworking prices need a little tuning, tempering just needs an option to keep last or block a temper you don’t want after you get it and enchanting is absurd. Enchanting for some items is a 1 in 20 chance which is absurd. I feel like I’m at a casino and that time invested doesn’t mean anything. As a serious casual this style will eventually have me walk away. I want to try lots of builds, characters, etc not GAMBLE!!!!! I love the direction, Blizzard please just change this aspect.

[@StarCraft961]

What would you think of making it so you could level past 100 But with every level you got a chaos cache from whisphers tree to give the player some items, mats and gold. To help supplement gold, when people are master working etc the most? Someone mentioned this on Reddit, sounds good, so I wanna see a pro point of view if you wouldn't mind😁

[@seanmiddleton3055]

That’s good. They either needed to make that conversion cost negligible or drop lower materials along with higher materials in higher tiers.

[@kronicgaming336]

awesome as always Raxx.

[@seekeroftruth101]

I think D4 is in a very good state now. I've reached my very first 100 character and not because I wasn't capable before. I would just get bored around the 70s and bounce. This time around I had a completely different experience and actually enjoyed my quest to 100 and then some.

[@TyChiStudio]

Rex I agree. The Gem and Gold resources now I have to make careful decisions to use them instead of just mindless slash and hack and throw away gems.

[@exquisitedoomlapointe185]

I honestly want to see some kind of grind. So i'm loving the current endgame. I'm incentivized to keep copies of several affix sets because they can brick, and also i won't push some temperings without a backup. Same for masterwork. Yet none of that is essential to keep pushing. You don't need every affix to keep going as getting your current set a full masterwork is still in the cards while you push glyphs levels and still can get pretty good gains that way. There's always some kind of progress, as for the gold, i sell every legendary for a mil or two per imventory which covers all my costs and beyond. I also don't have to play broken builds to even progress, so that's great too. Didn't think i'd like the capped armor, but now it is basically another resistance stat. Turns out you can push armor and resists then as you overcap them you can reorient your paragon board or gear accordingly but i am a little worried willpower and dex classes will require too much res/armor from stats that unlike str/int classes are simply maxed out from the stats and jewelry alone forcing you to dedicate much more to that but we shall see. My sorc needs no special attention to resists, my druid so far has 5 affixes covering that while still having to dedicate 3 affixes to arnor. This is fair because barb has more item slots, rogue does too and can dodge, but druid only has 2 weapon slots. Kinda wish they got just one more Hopefully tempering can allow druid to get away with just one affix for each, otherwise we might be severely gimped.

[@MostEpicCompilations]

They should fix the spark not dropping from lilith problem.

[@ddenozor]

I wonder how would it play if we were able to choose which temper we want and the random part was just the numbers. So far me and my friends are having a blast but when someone doesn't get the temper they want in all their tries, it leaves a sour taste.

[@davidskidmore3442]

IMO, this is where the 'rune words' thing people have been discussing should go. Get the right collection of drops, and craft a specific temper, rather than a random one.

[@gaspara9817]

My proposed solution is to do it the way stat rerolls work. You get 5 free but after that there is an ever increasing cost to reroll again. I also think they should allow you to choose to keep the existing temper instead of take the new one.

[@GuiltySiNz]

I seen one streamer on KZbin had 400,000,000 I have 25mil at level 85. Glad they are listening man they just making this game all sorts of fun. I love it.

[@grenburl]

Hey Raxx... Thanks for thinking of us Dad/Casual gamers. I am both of those and have been enjoying season 4 so far, BUT, the cost of tempering, crafting, etc seems a little much and takes a bit of grinding time that I don't always have.

[@evan5863]

Yeah Rax said it best here, the target audience and target vibe for the game is definitely a casual one, which is why its kind of confusing why all the grind and risk involved in the masterwork stuff is pretty high. Hopefully itll balance out in the end. If you played the ptr then you played the real season 4 especially with respect to masterworking and tempering costs.

[@krissCross]

I think the cost of puting on aspects and upgrade the potion is silly expensive

[@user-xh4rk4qh7d]

If they basically half the cost of everything that was ridiculously expensive I think that would be a nice middle ground where things are still expensive but you can at least stack some gold passively while you play and not constantly be broke or be afraid to change your gear because of the costs, like you said don't mind that they're making gold valuable but it's a little ridiculous that masterworking from 11 to 12 costs 10 mil and god forbid you have to re roll an affix which can scale up to like 2.3mil if rng isn't on your side or reset a masterwork which costs 5mil

[@rlGinjaNinja]

As always, thank you rax for being a generally positive minded person on all of this ❤

[@coreystout8102]

Also. They said they capped the reroll cost. At what?? I've yet to reach it, it just keeps getting higher until i trash the item lol

[@Dropbear2024]

Idk if it is gear specific but I had a chest piece cap out at 3.58m per roll

[@DrHakennase]

Well just came back after Vanilla D4 with my brothers and the gameplay difference is night n day. Its so much fun shredding through huge pile of mobs with my Tornado Barb jeez

[@DextieDinoBoy]

Where are you getting to most gem dust? Im level 100 on barb and i dont have enough to craft even 1 of the best gems

[@Sirvanic]

I had 100 million gold and thought all this gold drama had to be whining. Then I crafted a uber unique and 50 million was gone. Then I started really fine tuning my gear with rerolling, masterworking, convert masterworking mats, etc and I blew that 50 mil so fast. I wasted like 100 million gold in under an hour. Now I'm a poor man farming whispers. Edit: If Blizzard expects me to farm whisper caches for 3-5 mil a pop for hours upon hours just to waste another 50-100 mil in under an hour on upgrading gear that isn't even 100% optimal (good luck with that) then I'm out. I'm 4 caches in right now and I'm bored out of my mind. I'm not against gold being valuable and I like the season but this is ridiculous. Already finished the battlepass and season journey. Might just quit and wait for next season.

[@jaweel6205]

Yeah bro I’ve only tempered 3 pieces of gear and I’m down to 40 mil

[@doakesanddrax]

​@@jaweel6205 tempered doesn't cost gold.....

[@TRPDK]

I just lost 60m trying to roll for Golem mastery, still haven't got it

[@doakesanddrax]

@TRPDK yeah, I don't go above 2mil for rerolling affix. I'll just look for another piece of gear lol.

[@DovahTheHero]

​​@@TRPDK Wait .... u can roll for that?!? I literally just got golem mastery on a piece of gear that dropped and thought I was lucky

[@Art0r1a]

Maybe they could implement for people who play less something like this: If a player haven't logged in for a day or so, they get a massive boost to gold find for a time or a 50% discount on prices for a limited time. If someone plays only a couple of hours a week, then they'll be starving for resources IMHO.

[@sermerlin1]

Does anyone else have FPS spikes while traversing the dungeons or open world? Game runs locked 120 fps 4k DLAA (i5 11400 @4.2ghz, RTX 3090 ) but it's just weird as if they are asset loading spikes and traversal spikes where every 10-15 seconds it'll just micro freeze or if it's a larger detailing ahead (like multiple NPCs, small village) it will spike for a moment... Just wondering if this is something on my end.

[@BrutusMaximusAurelius]

I don’t like that the material for gem sockets is locked behind the world bosses. If I’m lucky, I get to kill 1 per day and that sucks.

[@cnnr_]

Just make experience gained after level 100 fill up a gold passive level. So once you cap out, you still use the exp to push that bonus gold % up. Idk what the cap should be, or maybe just don't have a hard cap, just limit it to the level. Like once you've gotten to 100% more gold, it takes like 10 hours of grinding to get to 101% and so on. But also the mobs in higher levels of pit and other endgame activities actually reward enough exp to push to those higher numbers reasonably.

[@mikey5132]

gold was definitely an issue since you can't gain the gold required to masterwork and roll down from just the pit alone. I find my only grievances atm are not enough stygian stones dropping even from higher tier pits 80+ is what I'm running and I can only find a handful each play session and temper bricking my greater affix items, they are rare enough to find with the right stats losing them to bad temper rolls feels bad wish I could pay gold to re-temper like we do to re-masterwork an item.

[@HowManyToasters]

idk why higher tier pit levels dont drop lower tier mats as well as high tier mats like is there any good reason

[@mindnetic9]

I love the changes they made to the leveling this season, finally I can hop on and actually level quick without it feeling like a second jod!

[@AiR1DaN]

I'm glad to have gold issues. I'm tired of gold just being something that doesn't really matter until you're suddenly broke. This is the D4 I was hoping for on release. Yeah it still needs some tuning, but I'm happy.

[@kelemvor3333]

The other thing about gems is that they are reusable. Once you create all the high-level gems, you never have to create them again. You can just take them out of one item and put them in another item or take out one Gem and put in a different one

[@rgoytacaz]

It seems that they fixed the elixirs combo for XP gain.

[@jimmybal10]

i like the way gems are somewhat hard to get. gives something to do.

[@tzuno2068]

They need to let lower tier mats drop on higher tiers too, maybe less amounts but definitely drop something. Glyph upgrade at the end of the pit would be awesome too.

[@xWhackoJacko]

Giving double to triple the current gold values for pit completions would help, too. I really don't like vendoring shit, or having to do whispers at 100 just so I can re-roll a few times and never get what I'm looking for anyway. I also feel like re-rolling affixes should give you THREE options + No change, not TWO options and No Change - but whatever. Bricking items with tempering is also pretty damn lame (DM had a good suggestion in adding a consumable that lets you reset the amount of temper rolls - i think that'd work - with the rarity of like a Ramaldini's Gift from D3 - so when I roll the same affix 5-6 times on a triple greater affix piece that has good stats...i dont wanna flip my fuckin desk because it rolled blizzard damage over and over lmao).

[@sols.2525]

Its inscribing gear that I think costs too much. It costs almost a million gold on some pieces.

[@pefb95]

Raxx, please recommend a Rogue build that is usable in this season!

[@InventSlaminate]

I’m using a rapid fire with the new unique that makes the arrows explode and it adds much needed AOE clear. I’m having a blast with it

[@pefb95]

@@InventSlaminate Do you have a link for the build/planner?

[@Jabarri74]

Stand next to a minion necro in helltides is the best levelling build for any class lol

[@InventSlaminate]

@@pefb95 I do not, kinda went with my gut but I’m clearing pit 40 at level 89

[@michaelolsson5193]

Raxx having four lvl 100 toons. Me thinking I have played quite a lot and dinged lvl 90 on my first toon. haha! But to be fair, I haven't just been power leveling.

[@sonnyankau9239]

bring the vault from D3 back. make it rare so when you come across it it's HUGE & a great way to fill up on gold

[@Sithel_]

Gem fragments drop amount goes from around 50 fragments to 250 once you hit level 91. Capping your gems isnt so bad once that happens.

[@xxScullheadxx]

I reset my mastering on my chest armor 7 times trying to get the level 4 boost to a decent affix..... got the same crappy affix boosted all 7 times then gave up on that piece lol

[@hectords164]

It's funny how you called this out and SO many people couldn't see it. I hit lvl 70 and even just enchanting your gear depleted your gold so fast I don't know how those people were saying the gold problem didn't exist. Which means the majority aren't even interacting with the systems as much. Doing whispers being the only considerable source of gold is actually terrible considering the amount you get from everything else.