Shops, gambling, were is the money sink ?

[Lestai]

Hello

We have no durability, porting is free, no gambling, no npc crafter fee as charged for services, arrows do not cost, no identify its free, the vendor only sells generic items we also get those free and lots of them.

After doing some of my own boss runs i noticed i will never use a vendor again. maybe to buy a tunic dye at 200gp or buy a few potions but there is sadly no need for gold in this game.

Potions also drop and i found myself selling those to the vendors so there is no need for gold at all unless i want to buy a tunic dye.

Does anyone else see this as a game flaw ?

Big hugs,
Lestai

[Bardo]

I've actually seen some good items at 3-5k gp at the vendor, but once we get to go further I'll guess you'll find just as nice items in the loot drops, so yeah... seems like the only use for gold is for trading

[Gorkk]

You can find rare items on the vendors Well, those I found the most are amulets and rings, mainly +x% strength and life, and +x% int and energy, but got rare bracers as well.

[Alkaidia]

Yah I found some nice rare bracers at the vendor but I didn't have the money to buy them. But I have to agree with you, later on you always have to much money in diablo 2. And in this there is nothing to use it up on at all.

Thanks
Alkaidia

[Pyremes]

Well, who knows. Maybe further along on in the game they'll have something that lets you use your saved up gold? *crosses fingers*

[Maxiemonster]

I've got 35000 gold now, and nowhere to spend it on.. I hope gold won't be as useless as it was in Diablo II, since that was just lame.

[Nerulan]

It would be great if you could remove relics from items at the vendors so you could use them again. I always hate it when i find a good relic but dont dare to use it because the next items i find might be much better.
It would be also fine if you could buy simpler relics in later stages of the game. Being able to dye items instead of the tunic would be also great.
Gambling is also one of my favorite money sinks

[Tjukkie]

Originally Posted by Maxiemonster

I've got 35000 gold now, and nowhere to spend it on.. I hope gold won't be as useless as it was in Diablo II, since that was just lame.

but then again, will you be killing that centaur boss 1000000x too, when the full game comes out?

[Aron]

35k gold sounds really like hundreds of Centaur/Chest runs. I haven’t done so many Boss runs yet but noticed sometimes that even rare affixes on items make it to the vendors. The single item I’ve seen cost over 5k gold.
We will see later in the retail version how costly items get. I’m sure that the developers can still do some tiny changes to reduce the gold drops and item sell values if the inflation gets too frustrating.