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While not as popular as [[Magic Find]], gold find can still be quite valuable. Just like Magic Find, Gold Find boosts the amount of gold dropped by monsters and objects of all types. Unlike MF, GF suffers no [[Magic find diminishing returns|diminishing returns]], and since gold drops much more often than items, the quantities of gold obtained with high %GF can be very impressive.
The downside most GF possible is that gold isn't that useful 3890% in the [[End Game]] of Diablo IID2X v1.10+. Most repairs aren't very expensive and there are seldom any This is only possible by using legacy items worth buying, which leaves [[gambling]] as the only real [[gold sink]]. Gambling various magic items (jewelry mostly) that could spawn with more GF than can be rewarding, but it takes found on those types of items in v1.07+. (See below for a long time and has very low odds to produce any quality Elite gear, plus full list.) In D2X v1.10+ it can't provide any [[runes]] or items useful for [[runewords]], which is why most players place "obtaining gold" fairly low on their s possible to-do listobtain upwards of 3500%.
==How Gold Find Works==
The % gold find on a character (+ that on the merc, if the merc makes the kill) multiplies the gold that the monster/chest/barrel/etc would otherwise have dropped. 100% gold find means that gold drops are doubled: a 100 gold drop would turn into 200 gold. 500% gold would make that 100 into 600 gold. (Not 500, which is where most players go wrong on their calculations. Remember that the base amount is modified. So 900% gold find = 10x the usual gold.)
==What use is gold?==
Gold finding isn't as valuable long term as magic finding, but is useful to gamble, it's amusing for players who like some variety, and can be done very well in non-uber monster areas.
Gold doesn't have much use in the [[end game]] of Diablo II. Most repairs aren't very expensive and there are seldom any items worth buying, which leaves [[gambling]] as the only real [[gold sink]]. Gambling can be rewarding, but it takes a long time and has very low odds to produce any quality Elite gear, plus it can't provide any [[runes]] or items useful for [[runewords]], which is why most players place "obtaining gold" fairly low on their to-do list. Gambling can provide very good rare jewelry, and has a very low % chance to score sets and uniques as well, including unique elite items.
==Gold Find Strategy==
The Barbarian is the king of gold find, thanks to the [[Find Item]] skill, which can give every corpse a better than 50% chance to drop twice. Merc kills add their GF to the player's, but it's not generally worth it to wait for them for the small increased %, you could simply kill more monsters in that time, which would yield more total gold.
Any hell area that can be killed in quickly, especially in a large game, is a great gold find area.
* More players in the game greatly increase the gold drops.
* Bosses and champions drop much larger gold stacks than regular monsters.
* Travincal is the best area for gold find, thanks to all of the high council and their minions, who all drop like champions.
===Uniques===* Nagelring: 15-30%mf* Tarnhelm: 25-50%mf 75%gf* Goldskin: 100%gf* Chance Guards: 25-40%mf 200%gf* Goldwrap: 30%mf 50-80%gf* Gull: 100%mf* The most gold find possible, in v1.10+, is 3990%. That's more than 40x the gold you would get with 0Patriarch: 100% gold find. At that level a monster that usually dropped 500 gold would drop 20,150 gold.gf
