Can someone please explain the shared stash gold deposit system? I put some gold in the shared stash with one character, then started a new character and tried to withdraw that same gold from the shared stash. As soon as I did, my new char stopped picking up gold drops and dropped whatever gold was gained in a vendor sale.
Does this happen to every character who withdraws from the shared stash gold, even if they played through on normal already? Is there any way to use that gold without losing all gold drops and item sales?
Thanks.
You should be able to share gold amongst all your Online Characters.
You have a Personal Inventory, and then 3 or 4 more tabs for “Shared”.
If you put the gold in “Shared” then anyone should be able to pick it up and hold it whether it’s 100 or 100K.
Make sure your characters are all “Online Characters” playing on the “Expansion” version of Diablo II and not “Classic”.
I accidentally created a character on “Classic” and the inventory is smaller, stash is not shared and you can’t swap weapons or equip your Mercenary.
Your character can only hold so much gold on his person depending on level. You maxed him out. Deposit some.
On the back of this it’s wiser to leave large amounts of gold in your Stash as gold on your character will drop if you die and if you are unable to recover your body this and your equipment are lost.
Thank you. I did not know there was a max on gold carried per level.
This might be stating the obvious: but sharing gold also only works if you are depositing and withdrawing it in the ‘shared’ tabs.
I also agree with Azrael here, that the best strategy is to deposit all of your character’s gold before they venture out of town again. Otherwise all of that gold can become lost if the character dies.
Then if the character dies, all that you have to do is save and exit, then enter the game again: Your dead character with all of its equipment should be in town beside you when you re-enter the game, so that you can recover its equipment; and at least all of the gold that you deposited before that character left town will still be in the stash.
Or at least that is how that strategy works for me in offline solo games. I think it is the same in multiplayer.