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Who would even buy gold?

There drops so much now, I'm making more by just picking it up than I made on the AH.

And once the Goblin rifts get patched in, gold will be without value.

I know people who are still stuck on hard/master.... even though they have the gear for T5, their ability to react and move out of stuff is really bad so they die often. Their gold goes away really quickly because they don't make much from drops and re-rolling gets expensive.

Flexy said it best. Come 2.1, gold will have little to no monetary value whatsoever as it will be falling like rain. Unlike D2, gold will still have a great many uses for the player, and having a load of gold will still be desirable. It's just that, after 2.1, access to great amounts of gold will be far more easy to accomplish.

I attribute the recent uptempo in spamming to the spammers having knowledge of this and they're just trying to effectively cash-out of D3 before 2.1 pounds their D3 profits flat.

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In d2 gold was very useful.. Many best in slot items was gambled using gold, mainly helmets with +3 skill type and socket-

Yeah, I played it a few times over an 8 year period. My point was that, in D2, gold had such little use. Gambling and repairs, that's it. The uses for gold in D3 are numerous and critical. Which was yet another improvement over D2, gold is a multifaceted and critical need.