Nobody believes Blizzard meant to give Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred players a 900% gold boost, but that hasn’t stopped them from exploiting it until someone sticks a decimal point in there

Diablo 4 has had its fair share of bugs that players have gleefully exploited. If it’s not some item that gives you the power to deal infinite damage, it’s a dungeon dropping too much loot. Diablo is a complicated videogame; unforeseen interactions are kind of inevitable.

But that’s not how I’d describe the latest thing players are exploiting in Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred. There’s an item with a number so big that I cannot imagine anyone at Blizzard would’ve thought it was OK to do on purpose. Someone must’ve forgotten a decimal point because it’s the sole reason players are currently making billions more gold than is normally possible.

A new Lord of Hatred Horadric seal item says you will earn 900% more gold when you equip it. Not 9% or 90%. It says 900% and it means it. No other item has a number that big, which is why many players think it’s a mistake. The amount of gold that drops scales way up as you climb into the highest difficulty levels already, but with this item, you don’t really need to worry about it again.

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In the past, gold wouldn’t be much of an issue. But in Lord of Hatred, there are quite a lot of things that will empty your pockets. Something as simple as swapping out a single stat on an item can cost millions of gold to gamble for the one you want. And the new skill trees that modify the game’s different endgame activities charge you 40 million or more just to move your points around. Forget the ultra rare mythic uniques: Gold is the true endgame chase item.

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Well, it was until word got around that this specific item buff can solve all your problems. The gold-boosting seal isn’t hard to get either. You need to reroll other seals in the new Horadric Cube crafting system until it pops out. You then need a set of charms normally meant for low-level players to equip alongside the seal for the bonus to activate. Those require dropping your difficulty setting and rerolling charms until you get the right ones. Anyone who has been playing fairly regularly for the last week should have all the materials to do this in a few minutes. Diablo 4 streamer Wudijo has a quick video on how this process works if you’ve never done any of this before.

You sacrifice a bit of your character’s power to become richer than you’d ever really need to be in just a few hours with the seal equipped. There are dungeons that drop extra gold and bonuses on the activity skill trees that make for a ridiculous combination, netting you a few billion every run. In just a few hours of grinding with this item, gold will no longer be a concern.

The only people who don’t benefit from this little mistake are those who buy items from other players on trade websites. Prices are about to go way up as players get their hands on this broken item and it’ll be mandatory if you actually want to be able to afford anything—at least until Blizzard notices and sticks a decimal point on there.

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