PSA: Murmuring Obols are now Diablo 4's most valuable currency

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Diablo 4 Murmuring Obols - Wanderer in season three armour

Murmuring Obols have long been one ofDiablo 4’s worst currencies. They’re a good idea in concept—you complete an event out in the world, pick up some little blue coins, and take them back to a strange vendor in the city to trade for a specific type of loot. These Purveyors of Curiosities might give you a legendary or rare piece of gear, or they might give you some absolute garbage. It’s all part of the gamble.

The problem with Obols is that they don’t give you much you can actually use, especially once you get to higher world tiers like Nightmare and Torment, since items you get from the purveyor don’t drop at 925 power. It’s no wonder that people instead use the currency to target farm certain aspects they can extract from gear, or use them to get armour and weapons they can dismantle to unlock extra cosmetic options.

That all changes with season four, though. Loot Reborn overhauls a lot of different mechanics in the game including how Obols work. Here are the key details:

Image1of2The Purveyor of Curiosities can provide items with greater affixes(Image credit: Blizzard)You’ll want to masterwork items with greater affixes so they can potentially be buffed further(Image credit: Blizzard)

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The Purveyor of Curiosities can provide items with greater affixes(Image credit: Blizzard)You’ll want to masterwork items with greater affixes so they can potentially be buffed further(Image credit: Blizzard)

The Purveyor of Curiosities can provide items with greater affixes(Image credit: Blizzard)

Diablo 4 Murmuring Obols - Purveyor of Curiosities

You’ll want to masterwork items with greater affixes so they can potentially be buffed further(Image credit: Blizzard)

Diablo 4 Tempering - Big affix buff

Ideally, the items you’ll be tempering or masterworking will have a greater affix on them that you want. If you’re lucky, when you masterwork to level four, eight, and twelve, that greater affix will be randomly selected and buffed even further. Greater affixes are also important as you can’t reroll them at the occultist. If you reroll a stat buffed through masterworking, the buff will remain, but if you meddle with changing a greater affix at all, you lose it.

So, rather than feeling obligated to pump your obols into the vendor for a load of trash items you immediately dismantle, some of the most powerful and investable gear in the game will now come from the Purveyor of Curiosities. Say you’re looking for a helmet with an ideal greater affix—simply spend all of your obols rolling helmets in the hopes of getting some legendaries with the right stats. Just remember to look for a star above any items you get from the purveyor to tell if any have a greater affix you can cook with.

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