If you want to maximize your character -- and Diablo IV Gold maximizing your character is the essence of Diablo is about -- you'll need plenty of legendary gems: to select the ones that match your character, to score high star ratings, to improve the gems you already have, and finally to place them into additional resonance slots. It's endless.

Among Diablo Immortal's plethora of upgrades, currencies, and reward strategies, legendary gems is the areas where the business model bites the hardest. Blizzard and NetEase haven't been as extravagant as to market directly to players through a loot device or gacha, but what they've created could be, in some sense which is more perplexing. Legendary gems only drop from the bosses of the randomly generated Elder Rift dungeons, and you can only guarantee the legendary gem's drop by applying the legendary crest modifier to the dungeon before starting the dungeon. In other words, the rates of drop for legendary gems are extremely low.

If you don't spend any money on the game, you can only receive one legendary crest per month. Even purchasing the battle pass will reward you with one or two additional legendary crests per month. Beyond that, you'll have to purchase them directly. Legendary crests are priced somewhere between $2 and $3 per piece. The number of gems you'll require to maximize your character's equipment and equipment, in addition to the low drop rates of five-star gems is the reason why the cost of maxing the character's stats is so high in Diablo Immortal has been estimated to be between $50,000 and $100,000and possibly more depending on how deep you dive into the gem resonance system. (Rock Paper Shotgun offers an exhaustive breakdown of costs that lands at the more sensible end of this spectrum.)

Diablo Immortal has been given an extremely rough ride due to this model of business and perhaps in a way when you consider that other popular free-to play games such as Genshin Impact and Lost Ark are hardly free of similar gacha mechanics to lure in big-spending "whale" players. Diablo's reputation and fame with a large PC gaming community, built up over the course of more than a quarter century, is definitely an influence. But it's also true that Diablo's system is particularly challenging and the nature of buy Diablo 4 Gold games could have some connection to that.