We Need a Gold Sink Other Than "Crafting"

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I don't "craft", I have no interest in "crafting", and no amount of omens GGG adds to the game is going to convince me to start cranking the slot machine we call "crafting". So, I'm currently sitting on a ton of gold and have nothing to do with it. I'd sell my excess if we were allowed to itemize it.

We need a Gold sink period. I don't even know why u'd need gold to craft anything. Maybe recombination?

People are running around with hundreds of million of gold this league.

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Sadaukar#2191 wrote:

We need a Gold sink period. I don't even know why u'd need gold to craft anything. Maybe recombination?

I mean, gold has no use in "crafting" directly. However, if you do plan on doing that, you will often have to trade for a ton of components. Using async trade and the currency exchange requires gold to make purchases which will cost a lot of gold if done in bulk.

As things currently go, the only gold sink we have is indirectly through "crafting".

Ah I see. I think even if u buy alot of crafting gear u're not running out of gold right now. The temple prints so much of it, it's crazy.

Only way is if u're a hideout warrior I guess.

Trade things with gold in Alva or Ange. Enough with trade restrictions. Why should i trade with Divs and exalted? Everything should have a price in gold and everything should have a ratio trade with other items.

So simple and innovative. But nah, copy paste from Poe1 is the only easy solution for Devs.

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Sadaukar#2191 wrote:

Only way is if u're a hideout warrior I guess.

I don't run temple the meta way. I only use it to farm Architect and Atziri. Mechanic is broken and I'll be surprised if the league makes it to core in 0.5.0. GGG has destroyed currency printer leagues over less, see Affliction league.

Only have 14m gold from playing like normal, very little spending outside of selling lots of runic splinters.

We don't need a gold sink. You'd never have anywhere close to this much gold if the temple didn't shit so much of it. In 0.3, a lot of us were all running out of gold constantly, because the gold fees on the exchange/trade are very, very expensive. In fact, it was extremely annoying if you spent any decent amount of time crafting or flipping items.

Now, crafting is a lot worse in 0.3, and the temple just gives a ridiculous amount of gold. So, everyone has a ton.

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avastcosmicarena#5899 wrote:

We don't need a gold sink. You'd never have anywhere close to this much gold if the temple didn't shit so much of it. In 0.3, a lot of us were all running out of gold constantly, because the gold fees on the exchange/trade are very, very expensive. In fact, it was extremely annoying if you spent any decent amount of time crafting or flipping items.

Now, crafting is a lot worse in 0.3, and the temple just gives a ridiculous amount of gold. So, everyone has a ton.

We do need a gold sink. People who engage in "crafting" already have one. Those who don't engage in it will have tons available with nothing to spend it on.

I mean the gamble system isnt even that good though for the gold sink. You get a bunch of 79 bases its a scam.


I think some expansion on this might be fun. Possibly? I dunno

Why on earth to you think crafting requires a lot of gold? You don't need that many items and the gold cost mainly depends on the amount of items you buy and not the type of the items you trade.
If you buy an Omen of Whittling for (currently) 33 div, it costs you 800 gold, an Omen of Light or a fracturing orb are 24,5 / 14 divs and costs 1000 gold each.
However, if you buy 350 ex by trading a divine, you pay 42.000 gold, so that's a bit more, but it still is just peanuts.


The only people who seem to have an issue with a lack or gold are extremely high-volume traders...