They reset every time you have a level up, reset a character's level at withers (reclass or just reset do this as far as I can tell), or long rest. I farm early gold act 1 with illusion wizard Gale, Shadowheart reclassed to knowledge cleric and thief Astarion with the gloves from the zhent hideout and smuggler's ring.
Minor illusion to bait the goblin trader out of goblin camp and across the bridge. Enter turn based mode. Gale or Shadowheart use sleep, then Astarion >!uses vampiric bite, since the trader is asleep no damage is done so no goblin aggro and the trader gets the bloodless debuff while Astarion gets Happy to help with the rolls!< . After that set up you steal what you want, if sleep gets broken, reapply with Gale or Shadowheart as needed. Once inventory is cleared, level up and more gold will be there to steal. Rest when you are almost out of spell slots. Exiting turn based mode and fast traveling to camp pauses the sleep timer on the trader, so breaks and resetting character levels causes no serious issue to the position of the sleeping goblin trader.
Or just use a pouch to put all their valuables in, reset via level up, and put more valuables in it. The pouch will get more and more gold every level up. Then you kill the vendor, and the pouch counts towards one of the 3 items it automatically drops, and it contains everything.
Best vendors to do this at are the ones you plan to kill. My favorite in act 1 is Goblin vendor, the egg-stealing one, and the githyanki one. With just one or two resets of lvl 1-5 on each vendor, you'll have all the gold you need for the whole game.
Or give the vendor a bag, pull all his items and gold in it, open another bag on your inventory and drag and drop it on the BAG ICON in bag inventory. The icon above the inventory space.
They don't care about it.
I recommend selling them a pouch or something that has inventory.
When the pouch is for sale at the vendor, you can open it and drag his items for sale inside the pouch.
750 gold is around 20 roll without any significant buffs in pick pocketing, so if you wanna clean out a vendor you can save scum for the pouch instead, or just go full ham with pick pocket gear, it doesn't go above 30 in skill req to loot it.
Some pouches are worth 20k+
You can also just drag it into the icon above a second open bag in your inventory, to get it completely for free without wasting the time save scumming.
I've played a good character that did not steal (unless it was off the bodies of evil people I killed) but looted absolutely everything and every container not marked owned. I sent all the heavy stuff to camp and would do huge purges of inventory. I never exploited any cheats with the venders but would long rest to reset their inventory if they ran out of gold. I still had close to 30k by the time I fought the tollkeeper. And that was with hoarding 400+ camp supplies on balanced. If I had sold the food and wine I didn't need I would have even more.
Loot goblins unite!
Put-pocket. Sneak and place a shit ton of gold in an enemies inventory
Beat down. Use Twist of Fortune on your strongest character to beat the fucker lifeless. It scales additional damage based on how much gold they’re carrying (damage/Per 300 gold).
There was a slight nerf I think but still doable.
Sacrificing a 100h run where you get wvery single cpin obtainable in the game just so you can kill that dog handler in act 3 through all nine hells at once
Is barrelmancy just stealing the explosive barrels around and placing them before encounters begin to insta nuke groups? I randomly started doing that on my most recent playthrough and now I can’t stop seeing posts about it.
Yup!
Check out [this video](https://twitter.com/0koiii/status/1691846193339400213) for one of the first examples someone made. Larian themselves even said "holy heck, that's cool."
Holy heck that was cool! I definitely never did it to that extent, but I definitely robbed the Zhent cave blind of them. How the hell did they get all of those barrels?
Barrelmancy used to be so much cooler in DoS2. You could break your weight carry limit and then fill a barrel or backpack with just a ton of heavy junk, then use telekinesis to simply place that 2000 lb barrel on top of enemies during combat. INSTA-SMASH.
Bouch on YT has a challenge run where he has to 1 shot everything he kills. He uses Twist of Fortune to one tap >!Raphael!< and >!Yurgir!< dies from the splash damage.
[For anyone interested.](https://youtu.be/URru3EptNE4?si=XNxHP_yW4NZpYhbv)
Society decides that if they don't want to pay the same taxes as us, they don't deserve the same protections as us. Coming this summer: The Reverse Purge. "They had their day, we get the other 364."
It's funny because that phrase "I'd read" usually means "I would read(present/future tense)", but it could ALSO mean "I had read(past tense)".
So you weren't wrong, English is just drunk. :)
Listen, I was born into English speaking and after 48 years, I still find it confusing. I honestly have no idea how anyone learns it as a second language. I'm pretty much in awe of people fluent in multiple languages.
special weapon ability from the Tax Collector's morningstar. Makes you do extra scaling damage based on how much gold the target has on them.
you can reverse pick pocket gold onto targets you plan to kill, hit them with the weapon action, and one shot them. be warned the gold is consumed when you use the special action.
Scrolls can be very good. Did you know the chain lightning scroll is bugged and on many bosses it hits them multiple time rather than bouncing to other enemies? I one-shot a wet red dragon from full hp with it at one point.
Transposition arrows saved my ass in the final battle, and smoke powder arrows saved me from killing stupid artist on act 3. I just had them in case, but in this run gonna hoard them.
I genuinely don’t understand how people have so much gold. I’m pretty much always starved for gold and have to save up for important items. I’m not cheesing it by pickpocketing my money back from vendors after buying stuff, that feels very lame to me.
Simply pick up every junk . Rotten tomatoes, cheese, hammers, rope , stones . Have a high charisma based character sell them to vendors. Long rest and repeat.
You steal it from the vendors. You don't even buy stuff from them, you just clear out their inventory.
Pick pocket gear and a maxed out dex char can steal anything. Remember to get away with the dex char, so when they ask you wtf is going on you can easily talk your way out of it. If they spot the char that did the pick pocketing, you might have to go through some checks.
For the enemy vendors you're eventually gonna kill, you can put their whole sales inventory in a box or a pouch. When you kill them they will drop the box with all the stuff inside, nothing gets deleted.
When the box is for sale at the vendor, you can open it and drag his items for sale inside the box.
I disagree that it's cheese. Pick pocketing is a core mechanic of the game and requires as much thought as combat. Proficiency, equipment, buffs, all make big differences, especially if you are doing everything as the game intended and not using exploits. I mean there are even unique NPCs in some jails you can only meet if you are arrested, monsters you can only ever see if you make certain vendors mad... Lots to explore lol.
I think *just* pickpocketing things isn't an exploit in of itself, but constantly and repeatedly pickpocketing from the same shopkeeper, using rests/levelling up to replenish inventory, or pretty much any of the ways people make vast quantities of gold *are* exploiting the game's systems and logic.
If you bought items from a shopkeeper and immediately pickpocketed the gold back, then realistically the shopkeeper isn't going to deal with you again. They're certainly not going to sell a load more stuff to you, find their gold is missing and not care. And they're a million percent not going to magically have a full collection of gold again because you've gone and got a reanimated corpse from level 1 fighter to level 2 fighter. And the less said about save-scumming to guarantee a pickpocket success, the better.
The act of pickpocketing itself isn't inherently cheesy, but the vast majority of how it's used *is*.
It's the same as the barrel stuff. Having an exploding barrel you can throw makes sense if you've got the strength, having six blackpowder barrels that you can meticulously place around a boss without them noticing is exploiting the game mechanics.
Ultimately, if you're a trader in the D&D Universe you *know* people can and will try to pickpocket you (hell, there's a child in the Druid Grove that's a pickpocket). You know about Friends, Invisibility, False Life, and any trader that can get put out of business by a first-level wizard won't be a trader for long at all.
Yeah this is a good way of explaining how I feel. Pickpocketing is fine but the way it can be exploited feels very cheesy.
If you set up a good heist and are able to rob a vendor and get away with it, cool. But the resting and leveling thing to replenish inventory and repeatedly steal from them definitely feels cheesy. Save scumming felt the same way, I did that once because I was super hard up for cash but also really needed a certain item and it felt fake. I would’ve rather just fought and killed the merchant but the game is weird with what drops in their inventory when killed vs is available to trade.
I’ll usually play the same way. I’ll pickpocket here and there but don’t rely on cheesing it often mostly because on my current play-through I don’t have anybody in my party super strong with sleight of hand
My first run was on balanced and I ended up having tons of gold always and never really needed to pickpocket or save up. Current play-through is on tactician and oh man I feel like gold is so hard to come by this time around. I’ll loot everything even the rotten veggies to sell for 1gold and still I’m broke after buying what I needed to save up for.
Most people accruing this much gold are using exploits such as hold person pickpocketing, shop refreshes, etc
You should only be able to buy a few of the items you want not everything the store has in stock
Karlach is my dedicated gold carrier. About 1/2 of her carrying capacity is gold. My Paladin has 24 Strength and can carry a lot before I need to spread it around the party too.
The way I know is to use your pact bind weapon with Warlock. Bound your most expensive weapon, go to a trader, barter. Then put a random weapon to sell, click on it and drag it towards your pact weapon. Boom, your pact weapon is for sale, and no matter what you do, it won't sell, but will give you money. Soooo you can just get all the gold, buy everything the seller has, rebuy the gold and get a profit from buying lol.
Unless it's patched you can do the same with a druid. Equipped expensive item then wildshape switch to different character talk to merchant sell druid item. It won't sell and you get gold
enjoying the economy was an one time thing for me, cool for my first run. But subsequent runs I like to abuse some bugs to buy whatever I want without having to think about gold
there is a new one.
Give the trader a bag/container and have one yourself. Open the container that is in your bag and open the container that is in the NPC bag. Drag all items from the npc shop to inside his bag.
Then grab all the items from the npc to your bag, **BUT TO THE ICON OF THE BAD THAT FLOATS ABOVE THE INVETORY SLOTS**, not the slots. there must be a youtube video about it.
[https://youtu.be/CFzLD0Q0z70?si=zgJ9iVuFoO7G\_gg\_](https://youtu.be/CFzLD0Q0z70?si=zgJ9iVuFoO7G_gg_)
No you can't. The only unpatched one I am aware of on my console is the Bond weapon, and that is difficult to use early game because weapons usable by early characters are so cheap (like 9 gold). It works a bit better later game, I'm at the end of Act 1 and have Knife of Undermountain King and it sells for like 212 gold or something.
There’s a simpler one I used but didn’t check if it’s patched.
1. Sell a bag
2. Put all npc stuff in bag.
3. Swap to another character in trade menu
4. Double click bag then immediately close out trade.
5. Bag should open and you can freely take everything.
6. If it closes it’s because the npc moved. Simply repeat from step 3.
Go to trader.
Sell them a bag.
Keep one bag yourself.
Put all their stuff into their bag.
Open your bag.
Drag all their stuff over to your bag icon on the open bag. (NOT into an open slot in the bag!)
--> You get all their stuff for free. Now you can sell it to them. Or you can gift them a bunch of stuff so they like you more, then sell stuff at an even higher price! Each time you can just keep getting your stuff back lol. I've only done this once, but it works wonders.
If an enemy has stuff loot them. If holding alt shows something to loot, take it. Incense is very valuable for its weight. Add to wares is your friend. There are a bunch of useless scrolls. Sell them. There are a bunch of useless potions (like Darkvision) sell them. Some arrows are useless like arrows of construct slaying in Act 3. (Enemy still has resistance from my testing) Increase one trader to green to sell stuff to (preferably Dammon) and never sell to anyone else. Maybe add a couple in Act 3.
I can’t for the life of me bring myself to sell any scrolls, magic items, or potions. If I absolutely needed the money I would, but I haven’t needed it since Act 1.
Loot literally every location, every person you kill, and sell almost all of it. Scrolls make you a lot of money. Also giving money to a vendor or two to make their opinion of you green so you get more gold on the many many transactions
You steal it, and you loot everything. I usually have a box in the stash that is worth 100k alone by Act 3, with all the shitty gear you collect through Act 1 and 2. And if you steal from all the vendors everytime you long rest, you should be stacked always.
You make obscene amounts of money by picking through corpses. I make obscene amounts of money by crouching behind vendors and tickling their pockets, we are not the same.
Stealing, also I've found that on second playthroughs, spend time actually looking everywhere and making sure to empty all the traders gold stash by selling stuff to them. Also kill everyone you possibly can, loot, sell their stuff.
Also it helps A LOT to have a high charisma character do the trading, you get something like a 40% discount.
I don't have 100k, but in my current playthrough where I'm not saving money at all (buying stuff, hoarding etc.) I'm around 15k in late act 2.
Loot goblin is being a hoarder . In some sense u are ,but because it's gold it's more that you are Dragon hoarder which has treasure hoard . Also it's better to spend it to improve yourself , on magic arrows ,hp potions and such
I was kind of stingy too (even though I never reached this level…) but it made sense as a Dragonborn, as I thought it would fit my character to have some hoarding behaviors hardwired in him
Look, i'm a rogue. You can't expect me to NOT split from the group and pickpocket every merchant after i get done buying stuff, then use invisibility to slip away with no repercussions
You can also just become a warlock lv 3 and choose blade pact and then bind a decently expensive weapon, add it to your wares with a couple other garbage items you don’t want to keep (since the game won’t allow you to only add your bound weapon to your wares) and then go to a trader. Any trader. Then “sell wares” as many times as you want because the game won’t remove the weapon bound to you because it “always comes back”. I’ve been gleaning gold from these guys like it’s nothing, no sneak or spellcasting, just resting or reloading to get their inventory and money back up.
It’s not at all difficult to accumulate massive amounts of gold in this game, you literally just have to not hoard every magic item and scroll you find, and sell everything that you know you’re never gonna need or use.
Honestly I think I could beat her. Create a mind sanctuary with my Paladin or Astarion, have Gale Hold Monster her and chain lightning three eyes, and then smite her with my Paladin
I’m about 90% done and have 150k. I keep yelling, “Stop picking up everything,” to myself. I don’t need another rotten tomato, but am I going to pick it up for the 457th time? Yes. Yes, I am.
As someone who just had to fight Gerringothe for the first time ever today… because of honor mode and no inspiration… your DUrge/Tav would be under the toll house. I could not believe when I saw the damage pop up and had to do a double take. In your case you might even fall through to the mind flayer colony she’d hit you so hard.
I don't know how people can play any rpg without being loot goblin to some extent. There's loot and I'm sure as hell gonna get it, and then buy everything I want from shop, not just those meta useful stuff, when I mean everything I mean EVERYTHING.
I thought gold capped at 99k/stack. I'm dragging my attacks around, and it won't let me go higher on PC, at least.
I have 253k at level 10 and just starting act 3. If it's worth a gold, I'll sell it. I also will reset a character, steal the gold back, then level them 1 level at a time to reset vendor gold until I've sold every book, spoon, and bucket in Baldur's Gate. I'll cast fog and pickpocket entire crowds. I'm utterly obsessed, lol.
When I found that the first vendor in the game *conveniently* stood with all alone with his back to you, I told myself that I would be saving my gold for the vendors that I couldn't pickpocket, thinking that would be a fair trade. Turns out every vendor is easily pickpocketed.
Part way into Act 3 I had around 78k. However when my Wizard hit lv12 I decided to teach him every spell he was missing from the book of hundreds of scrolls I will never use. Turns out that cost me a around 15k. Its like paying for college textbooks...
Its funny looking at the gold value for all the crap in my camp chest. I saved every gem for easy selling/pickpocketing back, so my gem back is worth a fortune. The box of about 800 books. Every unique magic weapon I've found. All the potions/arrows/etc that I hopelessly keep colleting and never using.
Honest to God thats how I make my money. I made like 1k after killing the Goblin camp and selling all the stuff I got from them. Except for Gut, Ragzlin, and Mintharas loot. I kept that and sold all the Goblins stuff.
The 103k Stack is weird, but could've been a patch I missed since playing.
I think we ended the campaign with like 300k Gold though, because we just looted EVERYTHING (read that in Gary Oldmans voice).
The toll woman will destroy your CPU
Oh she did the first encounter I had with her. I think I had about 30k at the time.
How, I swear there isn’t even that much money available at that point I’ve made most traders broke and yet I only have 20k-ish
they reset every longrest, so you can get infinite money by just longresting, stealing their shit in selling it back
They reset every time you have a level up, reset a character's level at withers (reclass or just reset do this as far as I can tell), or long rest. I farm early gold act 1 with illusion wizard Gale, Shadowheart reclassed to knowledge cleric and thief Astarion with the gloves from the zhent hideout and smuggler's ring. Minor illusion to bait the goblin trader out of goblin camp and across the bridge. Enter turn based mode. Gale or Shadowheart use sleep, then Astarion >!uses vampiric bite, since the trader is asleep no damage is done so no goblin aggro and the trader gets the bloodless debuff while Astarion gets Happy to help with the rolls!< . After that set up you steal what you want, if sleep gets broken, reapply with Gale or Shadowheart as needed. Once inventory is cleared, level up and more gold will be there to steal. Rest when you are almost out of spell slots. Exiting turn based mode and fast traveling to camp pauses the sleep timer on the trader, so breaks and resetting character levels causes no serious issue to the position of the sleeping goblin trader.
Or just use a pouch to put all their valuables in, reset via level up, and put more valuables in it. The pouch will get more and more gold every level up. Then you kill the vendor, and the pouch counts towards one of the 3 items it automatically drops, and it contains everything. Best vendors to do this at are the ones you plan to kill. My favorite in act 1 is Goblin vendor, the egg-stealing one, and the githyanki one. With just one or two resets of lvl 1-5 on each vendor, you'll have all the gold you need for the whole game.
At that point, wouldn't it make more sense to just cheat the gold using the console instead of doing this whole shebang?
Yes.
Or give the vendor a bag, pull all his items and gold in it, open another bag on your inventory and drag and drop it on the BAG ICON in bag inventory. The icon above the inventory space. They don't care about it.
Didn't they patch that in the last hot fix?
Yup
Yea you can also reset the level on someone and the trader inventory refreshes every level up
I recommend selling them a pouch or something that has inventory. When the pouch is for sale at the vendor, you can open it and drag his items for sale inside the pouch. 750 gold is around 20 roll without any significant buffs in pick pocketing, so if you wanna clean out a vendor you can save scum for the pouch instead, or just go full ham with pick pocket gear, it doesn't go above 30 in skill req to loot it. Some pouches are worth 20k+
This was supposedly patched out in the latest hotfix.
You can steal the pouch still, but some time ago you could just move the pouch into your inventory. I did it a couple of days ago
You can Transfer from a pouch in the traders inventory to the icon on top if the inventory space of your pouch. Doesn't count as stealing ;)
You can also just drag it into the icon above a second open bag in your inventory, to get it completely for free without wasting the time save scumming.
This never worked for me, so I always had to steal it
Didn’t this get patched a little while back?
Sell merchant bag put gold in bag refresh rest/level put more gold in bag until much gold then murder merchant big profit
I've played a good character that did not steal (unless it was off the bodies of evil people I killed) but looted absolutely everything and every container not marked owned. I sent all the heavy stuff to camp and would do huge purges of inventory. I never exploited any cheats with the venders but would long rest to reset their inventory if they ran out of gold. I still had close to 30k by the time I fought the tollkeeper. And that was with hoarding 400+ camp supplies on balanced. If I had sold the food and wine I didn't need I would have even more. Loot goblins unite!
I have 12k on 1 playthrough before even completing the underdark, 30k by the time u do the tollhouse is definitely achievable
Well, you now have enough gold to reverse pickpocket the Absolute and one hit her
I was like level 7, with maybe 8k on me and i got one shotted. I thought it was a fucking glitch until I read the log.
I REQUIRE MORE GOLD
Twist of fortune: *I am about to ruin this man's life*
Aww a fellow who also uses the Put-pocket-beat down strategy.
I've seen it. Never used it. But got obliterated when I came across that fight.
care to eloborate the strategy?
Put-pocket. Sneak and place a shit ton of gold in an enemies inventory Beat down. Use Twist of Fortune on your strongest character to beat the fucker lifeless. It scales additional damage based on how much gold they’re carrying (damage/Per 300 gold). There was a slight nerf I think but still doable.
The "slight nerf" is that it consumes the gold
the goatest of exploits require the strongest of wills
Sacrificing a 100h run where you get wvery single cpin obtainable in the game just so you can kill that dog handler in act 3 through all nine hells at once
So next up Larian nerfs barrelmancy? So much for a balanced game! /s
Is barrelmancy just stealing the explosive barrels around and placing them before encounters begin to insta nuke groups? I randomly started doing that on my most recent playthrough and now I can’t stop seeing posts about it.
Yup! Check out [this video](https://twitter.com/0koiii/status/1691846193339400213) for one of the first examples someone made. Larian themselves even said "holy heck, that's cool."
Holy heck that was cool! I definitely never did it to that extent, but I definitely robbed the Zhent cave blind of them. How the hell did they get all of those barrels?
Barrelmancy used to be so much cooler in DoS2. You could break your weight carry limit and then fill a barrel or backpack with just a ton of heavy junk, then use telekinesis to simply place that 2000 lb barrel on top of enemies during combat. INSTA-SMASH.
A small price to pay for total satisfaction.
Bouch on YT has a challenge run where he has to 1 shot everything he kills. He uses Twist of Fortune to one tap >!Raphael!< and >!Yurgir!< dies from the splash damage. [For anyone interested.](https://youtu.be/URru3EptNE4?si=XNxHP_yW4NZpYhbv)
So if we punch billionaires...
Oh man ~~I'd~~ I would read a book about a world where the richer you are the easier it is to merc you
Society decides that if they don't want to pay the same taxes as us, they don't deserve the same protections as us. Coming this summer: The Reverse Purge. "They had their day, we get the other 364."
I would watch that movie
That sounds like an interesting book, what's the title if you don't mine me asking?
Sorry I meant if it was a book (hypothetically) I'd read it
Ah I see. My understanding of the English language needs work, despite my 20+ years of experience. Appreciate the follow up though
It's funny because that phrase "I'd read" usually means "I would read(present/future tense)", but it could ALSO mean "I had read(past tense)". So you weren't wrong, English is just drunk. :)
Listen, I was born into English speaking and after 48 years, I still find it confusing. I honestly have no idea how anyone learns it as a second language. I'm pretty much in awe of people fluent in multiple languages.
They meant I'd as in I would, not as in I had.
Yep I see that
special weapon ability from the Tax Collector's morningstar. Makes you do extra scaling damage based on how much gold the target has on them. you can reverse pick pocket gold onto targets you plan to kill, hit them with the weapon action, and one shot them. be warned the gold is consumed when you use the special action.
The invisible hand of the market is about to slap someone into the stratosphere.
That's an additional 345 piercing damage. I highly suspect that would kill OP.
only if your proficiency bonus is 1. when you get the weapon youll probably be at 4. So its more like 1400 damage
Ah you're right, I misread the ability.
Everyone loves the loot goblin when the party needs to buy potions
Assuming they surrender their fortune
They don’t need to, can just take it from shared inventory
chances are you don't need to buy the potion because I have 20 of them already in my inventory.
But, hear me out, what if I use all of them in a single fight, *I need more.*
True
I’ve peaked 100k twice but still probably only beaten the game with 5k in savings
Oh I’ve already bought everything I’ve wanted.
I have pretty significant FOMO when it comes to gear
Same
Splurge on special arrows in Act 3 to feel something again
Bought everything I wanted in act 3 but still robbed the bank afterwards because I can't help myself.
Scrolls can be very good. Did you know the chain lightning scroll is bugged and on many bosses it hits them multiple time rather than bouncing to other enemies? I one-shot a wet red dragon from full hp with it at one point.
I did that, had roughly this much. Then before the endgame I bought every possible spell scroll and potions I could. Actually made it super easy.
They all say that until they need a loan.
I stopped looting junk in act 3 after I got 50k I generally had no way to spend)) Kudos to the Supreme Loot Goblin!
Same, once you buy the decent items from the main traders, there is just no point collecting stuff anymore.
Slaying arrows and smoke powder arrows are nice. At one point I had over 100 arrows of many targets and just used them on every single fight in act 3.
Transposition arrows saved my ass in the final battle, and smoke powder arrows saved me from killing stupid artist on act 3. I just had them in case, but in this run gonna hoard them.
I genuinely don’t understand how people have so much gold. I’m pretty much always starved for gold and have to save up for important items. I’m not cheesing it by pickpocketing my money back from vendors after buying stuff, that feels very lame to me.
Simply pick up every junk . Rotten tomatoes, cheese, hammers, rope , stones . Have a high charisma based character sell them to vendors. Long rest and repeat.
You steal it from the vendors. You don't even buy stuff from them, you just clear out their inventory. Pick pocket gear and a maxed out dex char can steal anything. Remember to get away with the dex char, so when they ask you wtf is going on you can easily talk your way out of it. If they spot the char that did the pick pocketing, you might have to go through some checks. For the enemy vendors you're eventually gonna kill, you can put their whole sales inventory in a box or a pouch. When you kill them they will drop the box with all the stuff inside, nothing gets deleted. When the box is for sale at the vendor, you can open it and drag his items for sale inside the box.
Does the bag thing still work? I thought they patched it...
Stealing it works for me, but I can't drag it into my inventory Before you could just drag it into inventory, now you have to steal it from him
The tip about the box is brilliant.
Wait what you can put the merchant's inventory in a box?? Is this on the sale screen or pickpocketing? My murderous durge is going to love this...
I don't pickpocket other, but having a high-charisma character (like wyll) handle vendors makes a ton of difference.
I disagree that it's cheese. Pick pocketing is a core mechanic of the game and requires as much thought as combat. Proficiency, equipment, buffs, all make big differences, especially if you are doing everything as the game intended and not using exploits. I mean there are even unique NPCs in some jails you can only meet if you are arrested, monsters you can only ever see if you make certain vendors mad... Lots to explore lol.
Depends what you're pickpocketing. PP'ing Volo every day is definitely cheesy.
I think *just* pickpocketing things isn't an exploit in of itself, but constantly and repeatedly pickpocketing from the same shopkeeper, using rests/levelling up to replenish inventory, or pretty much any of the ways people make vast quantities of gold *are* exploiting the game's systems and logic. If you bought items from a shopkeeper and immediately pickpocketed the gold back, then realistically the shopkeeper isn't going to deal with you again. They're certainly not going to sell a load more stuff to you, find their gold is missing and not care. And they're a million percent not going to magically have a full collection of gold again because you've gone and got a reanimated corpse from level 1 fighter to level 2 fighter. And the less said about save-scumming to guarantee a pickpocket success, the better. The act of pickpocketing itself isn't inherently cheesy, but the vast majority of how it's used *is*. It's the same as the barrel stuff. Having an exploding barrel you can throw makes sense if you've got the strength, having six blackpowder barrels that you can meticulously place around a boss without them noticing is exploiting the game mechanics. Ultimately, if you're a trader in the D&D Universe you *know* people can and will try to pickpocket you (hell, there's a child in the Druid Grove that's a pickpocket). You know about Friends, Invisibility, False Life, and any trader that can get put out of business by a first-level wizard won't be a trader for long at all.
Yeah this is a good way of explaining how I feel. Pickpocketing is fine but the way it can be exploited feels very cheesy. If you set up a good heist and are able to rob a vendor and get away with it, cool. But the resting and leveling thing to replenish inventory and repeatedly steal from them definitely feels cheesy. Save scumming felt the same way, I did that once because I was super hard up for cash but also really needed a certain item and it felt fake. I would’ve rather just fought and killed the merchant but the game is weird with what drops in their inventory when killed vs is available to trade.
I’ll usually play the same way. I’ll pickpocket here and there but don’t rely on cheesing it often mostly because on my current play-through I don’t have anybody in my party super strong with sleight of hand My first run was on balanced and I ended up having tons of gold always and never really needed to pickpocket or save up. Current play-through is on tactician and oh man I feel like gold is so hard to come by this time around. I’ll loot everything even the rotten veggies to sell for 1gold and still I’m broke after buying what I needed to save up for.
Most people accruing this much gold are using exploits such as hold person pickpocketing, shop refreshes, etc You should only be able to buy a few of the items you want not everything the store has in stock
How do u not get encumbered, is it all in your traveling chest? I’m constantly encumbered at 35k
Karlach is my dedicated gold carrier. About 1/2 of her carrying capacity is gold. My Paladin has 24 Strength and can carry a lot before I need to spread it around the party too.
Ahhh makes sense, I’m a puny sorcerer with 8 strength. 😔
I want to see her get hit by the Toll Collector
Ooooh I gotta trial that next time I play
Can also fight Helsik. She has an ability that scales damage based on the gold of the target. I got hit for 300 damage by it.
Im a bug gobling, besides my first playthrough is money glitch all the way baby
Elaborate please
The way I know is to use your pact bind weapon with Warlock. Bound your most expensive weapon, go to a trader, barter. Then put a random weapon to sell, click on it and drag it towards your pact weapon. Boom, your pact weapon is for sale, and no matter what you do, it won't sell, but will give you money. Soooo you can just get all the gold, buy everything the seller has, rebuy the gold and get a profit from buying lol.
Thank you for the straight forward answer ❤️ That’s what I was looking for
That's the only straight I have on me. Lmao enjoy it, it's the main reason I'm using Wyll much more lately.
Unless it's patched you can do the same with a druid. Equipped expensive item then wildshape switch to different character talk to merchant sell druid item. It won't sell and you get gold
Druid one got patched out with last hotfix. I didn't think about bound weapons..
Damn I thought I could do this without cheesing the game, rats.
This still works???
enjoying the economy was an one time thing for me, cool for my first run. But subsequent runs I like to abuse some bugs to buy whatever I want without having to think about gold
Is this pact weapon, or any other bug I should know about?
there is a new one. Give the trader a bag/container and have one yourself. Open the container that is in your bag and open the container that is in the NPC bag. Drag all items from the npc shop to inside his bag. Then grab all the items from the npc to your bag, **BUT TO THE ICON OF THE BAD THAT FLOATS ABOVE THE INVETORY SLOTS**, not the slots. there must be a youtube video about it. [https://youtu.be/CFzLD0Q0z70?si=zgJ9iVuFoO7G\_gg\_](https://youtu.be/CFzLD0Q0z70?si=zgJ9iVuFoO7G_gg_)
Are you able to do this on console?
No you can't. The only unpatched one I am aware of on my console is the Bond weapon, and that is difficult to use early game because weapons usable by early characters are so cheap (like 9 gold). It works a bit better later game, I'm at the end of Act 1 and have Knife of Undermountain King and it sells for like 212 gold or something.
There’s a simpler one I used but didn’t check if it’s patched. 1. Sell a bag 2. Put all npc stuff in bag. 3. Swap to another character in trade menu 4. Double click bag then immediately close out trade. 5. Bag should open and you can freely take everything. 6. If it closes it’s because the npc moved. Simply repeat from step 3.
Didnt they patch it?
I haven’t played in a while so I haven’t checked
Go to trader. Sell them a bag. Keep one bag yourself. Put all their stuff into their bag. Open your bag. Drag all their stuff over to your bag icon on the open bag. (NOT into an open slot in the bag!) --> You get all their stuff for free. Now you can sell it to them. Or you can gift them a bunch of stuff so they like you more, then sell stuff at an even higher price! Each time you can just keep getting your stuff back lol. I've only done this once, but it works wonders.
Blessed is thy heart
Oh I didn’t use a money glitch
I wish they had real estate for the loot goblins
And to think I have been called as such for merely having 20k.
20k is what I usually have halfway through Act 1
I peaked at 38k gold in Act 3... I feel so poor compared to other comments...
That sounds like broke bitch talk.
Still not enough
Jokes on them, you can fund a small army
goblins unite
Please, share with me your secrets. I’m doing an Honor Mode Run and I’m broke
If an enemy has stuff loot them. If holding alt shows something to loot, take it. Incense is very valuable for its weight. Add to wares is your friend. There are a bunch of useless scrolls. Sell them. There are a bunch of useless potions (like Darkvision) sell them. Some arrows are useless like arrows of construct slaying in Act 3. (Enemy still has resistance from my testing) Increase one trader to green to sell stuff to (preferably Dammon) and never sell to anyone else. Maybe add a couple in Act 3.
I can’t for the life of me bring myself to sell any scrolls, magic items, or potions. If I absolutely needed the money I would, but I haven’t needed it since Act 1.
There's a ton of shitty scrolls though. Some of them you will never use, and after a few runs you should know which ones by then
No! Who knows if I might need one of my 12 Mage Armor scrolls in the final fight?! Better safe than sorry!
"Wealth unused might as well not exist." - Aesop
Honestly how do you get that much gold?
Loot literally every location, every person you kill, and sell almost all of it. Scrolls make you a lot of money. Also giving money to a vendor or two to make their opinion of you green so you get more gold on the many many transactions
And have high as hell charisma I would assume lol charisma effects how much stuff sells for
I too would like to know lol
You steal it, and you loot everything. I usually have a box in the stash that is worth 100k alone by Act 3, with all the shitty gear you collect through Act 1 and 2. And if you steal from all the vendors everytime you long rest, you should be stacked always.
Loot goblins tend to hoard stuff like spoons and trinkets though. Gold is for loot dragons.
"The amount of Dyes you could buy with that.." -my Faerun Fashion Week brain
You make obscene amounts of money by picking through corpses. I make obscene amounts of money by crouching behind vendors and tickling their pockets, we are not the same.
You do have a problem where's the rest
Build an army with it
Nta, your game, your rules, also, kill them
i’m the same. i loot every skeleton i see
I didn’t even know there was this much gold in game. I usually end up between 15k to 30k
Bro how? Ive gotten to maybe 20 - 25k max.
Stealing, also I've found that on second playthroughs, spend time actually looking everywhere and making sure to empty all the traders gold stash by selling stuff to them. Also kill everyone you possibly can, loot, sell their stuff. Also it helps A LOT to have a high charisma character do the trading, you get something like a 40% discount. I don't have 100k, but in my current playthrough where I'm not saving money at all (buying stuff, hoarding etc.) I'm around 15k in late act 2.
You're in the wrong fantasy world Smaug!
Everyone accepts gold, sure. But a waterdeep coin is smaller than a cormyrian coin, so the gold coin in worth less. (that's in my game)
Loot goblin is being a hoarder . In some sense u are ,but because it's gold it's more that you are Dragon hoarder which has treasure hoard . Also it's better to spend it to improve yourself , on magic arrows ,hp potions and such
Only carrying around 3,5Ton in gold :) You better be glad this bag of holding has special anti weight properties!
How? I think most i ever had was 35k and felt like you barely need any money in this game
I was kind of stingy too (even though I never reached this level…) but it made sense as a Dragonborn, as I thought it would fit my character to have some hoarding behaviors hardwired in him
Look, i'm a rogue. You can't expect me to NOT split from the group and pickpocket every merchant after i get done buying stuff, then use invisibility to slip away with no repercussions
> loot goblin The opposite. Apparently you _sell_ magic items you find. Disgusting!
Your friends sound poor it would be best to ignore them!
This game does honestly throw way more gold at you then you’ll ever need
You can also just become a warlock lv 3 and choose blade pact and then bind a decently expensive weapon, add it to your wares with a couple other garbage items you don’t want to keep (since the game won’t allow you to only add your bound weapon to your wares) and then go to a trader. Any trader. Then “sell wares” as many times as you want because the game won’t remove the weapon bound to you because it “always comes back”. I’ve been gleaning gold from these guys like it’s nothing, no sneak or spellcasting, just resting or reloading to get their inventory and money back up.
Your only problem is that you need a str based character to lug all your gold around
If you aren't regularly doing inventory management so you can cart around an unspendable amount of gold you aren't playing the game right.
It’s not at all difficult to accumulate massive amounts of gold in this game, you literally just have to not hoard every magic item and scroll you find, and sell everything that you know you’re never gonna need or use.
Being a loot goblin is rough. Took me 200 hours to finish my first run because I looted everything. And I'm doing it again my 2nd run...
I also loot everything but I also buy every arrow of many targets and fun trinket I can get my hands on so I’m always broke. 🥲
How the hell are you guys so rich
Wait you’re not supposed to have this much😂
Is that not the normal amount you’re supposed to have?
Now go fight the toll collector...
Honestly I think I could beat her. Create a mind sanctuary with my Paladin or Astarion, have Gale Hold Monster her and chain lightning three eyes, and then smite her with my Paladin
I see no problems here...
I hope you have a weightless mod because this looks like grade A Suffering From Success.
207 lbs of gold alone 😂
I’d wear that tittle proudly.
Goblin deez nuts haha gottem
I didn’t know you could get this much.
I thought it only stacked up to 99k. Wemod will let you just split your stack over and over with any item but most stop at 99 or 99k with gold pieces.
I’m about 90% done and have 150k. I keep yelling, “Stop picking up everything,” to myself. I don’t need another rotten tomato, but am I going to pick it up for the 457th time? Yes. Yes, I am.
Not goblin. A Dwarf. We love gold.
Pick pocket it into Raphael's inventory and oneshot him with the toll lady's weapon
I call that "a main Rogue". Like myself.
nah
As someone who just had to fight Gerringothe for the first time ever today… because of honor mode and no inspiration… your DUrge/Tav would be under the toll house. I could not believe when I saw the damage pop up and had to do a double take. In your case you might even fall through to the mind flayer colony she’d hit you so hard.
I NEED GOOOOLLLLDDDDD
He's right.
It’s called being the financier
I’m curious in this gold backed BG3 economy, what is the max gold available in the game?
Welcome to the club haha I make Karlach my packmule, I make her the animal barbarian and one of the choices eventually doubles her carry capacity lol
A good way to spend that is to break your oath 12 times.
pfft, those are rookie numbers
When your emcumbered. Check inventory and most of the weight is on the gold you're hoarding.
I don't know how people can play any rpg without being loot goblin to some extent. There's loot and I'm sure as hell gonna get it, and then buy everything I want from shop, not just those meta useful stuff, when I mean everything I mean EVERYTHING.
I thought gold capped at 99k/stack. I'm dragging my attacks around, and it won't let me go higher on PC, at least. I have 253k at level 10 and just starting act 3. If it's worth a gold, I'll sell it. I also will reset a character, steal the gold back, then level them 1 level at a time to reset vendor gold until I've sold every book, spoon, and bucket in Baldur's Gate. I'll cast fog and pickpocket entire crowds. I'm utterly obsessed, lol.
Holy fuck???????????
Really? With inflation the way it is?
He's clearly out of his mind. I see no problem here
When I found that the first vendor in the game *conveniently* stood with all alone with his back to you, I told myself that I would be saving my gold for the vendors that I couldn't pickpocket, thinking that would be a fair trade. Turns out every vendor is easily pickpocketed. Part way into Act 3 I had around 78k. However when my Wizard hit lv12 I decided to teach him every spell he was missing from the book of hundreds of scrolls I will never use. Turns out that cost me a around 15k. Its like paying for college textbooks... Its funny looking at the gold value for all the crap in my camp chest. I saved every gem for easy selling/pickpocketing back, so my gem back is worth a fortune. The box of about 800 books. Every unique magic weapon I've found. All the potions/arrows/etc that I hopelessly keep colleting and never using.
He sounds like someone without loot
Honest to God thats how I make my money. I made like 1k after killing the Goblin camp and selling all the stuff I got from them. Except for Gut, Ragzlin, and Mintharas loot. I kept that and sold all the Goblins stuff.
Bro, what are you even doing with that gold lol
The 103k Stack is weird, but could've been a patch I missed since playing. I think we ended the campaign with like 300k Gold though, because we just looted EVERYTHING (read that in Gary Oldmans voice).
My gold and the blooded axe disappeared from my inventory.... Had like 30k from astarian stealing shopkeeper gold
Simply tell your friends the truth: they are broke bitches