Gold in Diablo 4

Gold uses

Blizzard has long sought to make gold worth picking up in Diablo games. Diablo 4 will have an array of uses for gold, including:

• Contributing to your clan's bank
• Gambling for rare items at the Purveyor of Curiosities
• Purchasing items from vendors
• Repairing item durability at the Blacksmith
• Trading with other players
• Unlocking gold-related Challenges

The game's economy has gone through multiple iterations [1] trying to get gold usage where it should be:

Gold sources

The majority of your gold in Diablo 4 will come from killing monsters. Alternative sources and ways to increase the rate of gold gain are:

• Cleansing Strongholds
• Completing quests
• Following and capturing Treasure Goblins
• Killing bosses, monsters, and world bosses
• Selling items to vendors
• Socketing Extra Gold gems into items
• Touching a Greed Shrines

Gold UI elements

Although Diablo 4's UI is heavily under development, a character's gold amount is shown in the lower left corner of their inventory screen:

The vendor sale price (in gold) for items is shown in the lower right corner of the item's UI screen:

Gold drop animation

When a slain monster drops gold in Diablo 4, the gold is flung up into the air and then falls to the ground in a satisfying way. This differs from past Diablo games, where the gold was immediately displayed on the ground beside the monster's corpse.

Buy Diablo 4 gold

Similar to past Diablo (and other Blizzard) games, buying Diablo 4 gold with real money is against Blizzard's policies and could result in the termination of a player's account. Here's the relevant point in Blizzard's Termination of Service Agreement [2]:

In addition to ruining the spirit of the game, players find (the hard way) that many of the "buy gold" and "buy items" merchants are scams. Often, players never receive the in-game goods they paid for, and their payment/personal information is used for nefarious purposes.