As covered by Wowhead, the trick involves using a Legendary Seal with increased gold drop rate in Lord of Hatred. Better yet, players have found that the bonus can apply to caches, including Whisper Caches and the gold cache at the end of Infernal Hordes.
Gold Find Has Returned, Sort Of
This is not quite the old-school Gold Find fantasy of stacking shiny nonsense and watching demons explode into retirement money. It is more fiddly than that, because modern Diablo cannot simply let greed be simple.
According to the report, players need access to the Gold Drop Rate affix through the Practiced Technique set bonus, which is tied to pre-Torment difficulty. That means the most efficient route involves farming Seals in higher difficulties, storing them, lowering difficulty, using the Horadric Cube to combine them, and then activating the right set bonus.
In other words, yes, Gold Find is back. But it has returned wearing a spreadsheet and asking whether you have prepared your stash properly.
The Cache Trick Is the Real Prize
The clever part is how cache rewards appear to work. If gold drop bonuses are calculated when a cache is opened rather than when it drops, players can hoard Whisper Caches, swap into a Gold Find setup, open everything at once, and enjoy the kind of payout that makes a blacksmith quietly raise his prices.
That is exactly the sort of thing Diablo players love. It is weird, slightly awkward, probably not what most casual players will bother doing, and potentially very profitable for anyone willing to treat their character like an accountant with a murder hobby.
It may also work with Infernal Hordes gold caches, making the current Season 13 economy even more interesting for players already grinding events, War Plans, and endgame reward loops.
The Cost of Being Rich
Of course, there are drawbacks. Equipping the necessary set pieces can break your normal charm setup, which means damage loss. Some builds may not be able to farm comfortably while wearing the gold setup, especially at higher Torment levels.
That makes this less of a universal farming strategy and more of a swap trick. Farm normally. Hoard caches. Change gear. Open the vault. Laugh like a goblin with tax problems.
For Diablo 4, this is both funny and revealing. Gold still matters. Crafting, enchanting, rerolling, upgrading, and endgame experimentation can chew through your wallet fast. If players are willing to build a whole ritual around squeezing extra gold from caches, that says the economy is doing its job, or tormenting everyone correctly.
Either way, greed has found another path through Sanctuary.
