Too much gold sinks and not enough gold

[Archmage-1811]

@Gnodab-11219

At what point does fully Masterworking a piece of gear just become something you expect to have handed to you? Shouldn’t you have to work to completely finalize a piece of gear?

You mean how it was before? Masterworking is a bad joke and a massive time sink for no good reason. The old upgrading system was x10 better. They should have just left it as it was and only added Tempering. But of course they had to make the Pit relevant somehow and chain people to the grinding wheel again.

[Doggo-21158]

Hated this so much in the PTR. Had to grind too easy content all the time to get the materials. I thought that I’m doing something wrong and I probably was.

[kito-1660]

Try doing whispers… u get around 3-4 million for each cache and it takes around 10-20 min to complete them.

[Teksuo-1449]

my gold is fine i can get some if i need some. sell instead of salvage for a few hours and voila!

i have a problem with socket materials and gem materials though.

[OliveShark-3410]

This should be addressed in coming patch as Rob2628 has already created a video about this topic, Blizzard will listen to streamers as always.

/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a1Rp2o--jk

[Looniversity-2877]

@Dust-2240

selling stuff with a terrible ui is definately not the solution, there isnt even a sell all button. one way or the other ur back to click every item.

If you mark the loot as junk, when you get to the vendor you just click one item and it sells everything you marked as junk.

[OliveShark-3410]

Is there an option to mark all items junk? If yes then no UI issue.

[MikeDanger-11312]

It’s really very simple. If you do not have enough gold to downgrade the materials do a lower tier pit. It should be fast and easy. Why work hard when you can work smart?

We are starting on day four of the season and some of you are getting all worked up upgrading gear you will be dumping in a couple weeks after you find something better.

[Irres-1198]

I was thinking about making a sign “Will work for healing upgrade” The major healing for lvl80 costs 5Million…I am lvl 83 now…

[philosocrate-1524]

Agree. I’m broke as a joke. Loot Reborn, but I can’t afford to play with my loot.

[MikeDanger-11312]

@MacroNinja-1569

Hi MikeDanger, respectfully for context, I am on eternal and with no seasonal content, I am many days ahead of the seasonal players and seeing how end game trends.

Since I am already ubered up when needed and fully geared with greater affix items from whisper caches I have saved, it takes me the same time to clear a Pit 75 as it does a 60 (61 is the cut off point where the ingolith stops dropping).

So it will take me more runs at 60 to accumulate the same mats as it would to run the 75 instead. Now this is not a big deal because I am on eternal and have billions of gold already. When you arrive at the point when you are ready to start upgrading masterworks steps 4-8, I think you better see why this becomes a problem, and why just running the lower level is not a good use of time.

As I see it the season is approx. three months long and the game is paced so a majority of players will be able to level up, upgrade their glyphs, upgrade their gear to fight uber bosses and challenge the pit for a high level.

It is not paced to mastercraft all your gear on day four of the season. If it was than yes, there is insufficient gold, but it’s not and there will be plenty of time to acquire gold and materials as the season unfolds.

It’s not a sprint; it’s a marathon.

[Irres-1198]

You know I picked this name before I ever knew how this Sanctuary Economy would be.
https://i.imgur.com/zxqd19R.png

I feel an Alanis Morissette song coming on.

[MikeDanger-11312]

So in a couple weeks when I have hundreds of millions of gold I’m going to be in trouble? Each season I have finished with nearly a billion of unspent Diablo gold. I’m not anticipating a problem…

[Ralph-22604]

@MacroNinja-1569

How did I become a Diablo gold millionaire? I started with a billion, and spent it converting mats to craft 11 items.

I take it you too studied at Trump University!

…ah… thank you… thank you… I’ll be here all week…

[Substatic-1973]

They expected us to trade items to get the gold…but there is no real in game trade system lol. Trade chat is empty 24/7. It’s 3rd party weird sites where no one messages you.

[GODSANCHEZ-2567]

@kabooms-1148

The game is terrible I’m slowly playing through the various content so I can have a good idea about how such a big company can produce something so bad. This not enough gold comment is ridiculous though. Earlier I spent 15 minutes in a Helltide vendoring everything. In that 15 minutes I made 9 million gold. Not sure that spending 15 minutes to produce between 8 and 15 runs based on your estimates is an issue. These types of posts make me question if the reason the game is so bad is because Blizzard sucks at making games or because their audience wants a bad game.

I had 30 mln gold, I did 2 attemtps to masterwork, that both failed, and I ended up with 2mln gold

[Mile-11247]

The old system was complete trash, your take is brain dead at best.

[Archmage-1811]

Bro, get real. This new system isn’t even that different from the old one. What’s the big change, that it now goes from 5 to 12? So what! The only thing it does it prolong the grind and add even more unnecessary RNG with the 25% increases.

Also if your build uses a unique weapon the legacy versions are straight up better because the masterworking doesn’t increase the base damage in weapons. Who thought that was a good idea and how is that good design?

Masterworking is just a terrible system. Tempering on the other hand was a welcome change. Only problem there is the potential to brick a good item, again because of the unnecessary RNG.

[Mile-11247]

IF you playing an ActionRPG and complaining about RNG, then you might want to find a new genre of games to play.

[ROtony1-2838]

Stop sniffing glue man, in this state of the game we will never had enough gold.