Diablo 4 has a fairly generous drop rate for items, leading players to a big question: should you sell or salvage excess gear? It’s quite easy to run out of both inventory and stash space if you’re a hoarder. At that point, it becomes necessary to choose between selling your excess wares for gold or salvaging them for other uses. In order to make an informed decision, it helps to know what exactly gold and salvage can be used for.

Diablo 4: Should You Sell or Salvage Gear?

On one hand, selling in Diablo 4 is key, as almost every vendor transaction in Sanctuary is going to involve some amount of gold over and above any other currencies or materials. The Alchemist needs gold to brew potions and craft elixirs. The Blacksmith needs gold to repair and upgrade your items. The Jeweler needs gold for gem crafting. Even your personal Stash needs gold to expand its maximum capacity. And you will need gold yourself if you decide to respec your build at some point.

Salvage, on the other hand, offers up a variety of materials for crafting, upgrades, and imprints, depending on the item and its rarity. Additionally, it is the only way to unlock the corresponding Transmog of the item.

Early Game

At the very beginning of a run, you should opt to only sell items of significant value for a quick cash infusion, while salvaging the lower-valued junk items instead, for their crafting materials. This will help build out your resource pool early on, for upgrading the items you will be picking up in the mid game. If aesthetics are important to you, consider salvaging the higher-valued items at your discretion, for their Transmogs.

Mid to Late Game

By this point, you will actually begin requiring the crafting materials from higher rarity items, so salvage these, and mass sell the Common and Magic items instead. While salvaging Rare gear is a no-brainer, when deciding whether to sell or salvage Legendary items in Diablo 4, you should go through a three-stage decision making process:

• Do you need the Legendary Aspect extracted?
• Do you need the crafting materials salvaged?
• Do you need the Transmog unlocked?

If the answer is no to all of those questions, then and only then, should you sell a Legendary item for its gold value.

That’s all you need to know about the sell or salvage process in Diablo 4! While you’re here, check out our guide for the best way to level up faster.

One of the biggest questions for one of the biggest games of 2023 has been players asking for a Diablo 4 offline mode. Increasingly more in recent years, video games have begun requiring an always online requirement, even for games that have single player modes. Blizzard has done this in the past with many multiplayer games as well.

It seems like this trend is continuing for Diablo IV as well. Read on for the bad news about the ability to play Diablo 4 offline.

Does Diablo 4 Have an Offline Mode?

Unfortunately, as of the time of writing, there is no offline play available in Diablo 4. Despite being able to play the game alone, players still have to connect to Battle.net to play the game. For players who want to go through Diablo 4 solo, this is a bit of unfortunate news.

In the past, Diablo releases were able to be played offline. A few years after launch, Diablo 3 even came to Nintendo Switch, giving gamers the ability to play the game anywhere. In its current state, it doesn’t seem like playing portably will ever be an option for Diablo 4.

Even without others in your party, there are times where you may come across other players in the world, which is now unavoidable with the lack of offline play. It also means that Error Codes can stop you from playing the game altogether, rather than just stopping you from playing with others. It’s a pretty big inconvenience that has become unfortunately common in the landscape of the current gaming industry.

That’s the rather sad answer to the question of Diablo 4 offline mode. Be sure to check out some of our other guides if you’re playing the game, like how to claim your pre-order bonus if you haven’t already!

As you explore Sanctuary in Diablo 4, you will stumble upon a shopkeeper selling the Whispering Key. These keys can open certain chests that you find throughout your exploration. This guide will walk you through the process of acquiring these keys, and the unique currency with which to purchase them.

What is a Whispering Key in Diablo 4?

In short, Whispering Keys are keys that can open Silent Chests, chests that are bound shut by chains of gold and a large lock. To be prepared for any chests that you come across, it’s best to keep a few keys in your inventory when possible.

The Purveyor of Curiosities will sell you a Whispering Key for 20 Murmuring Obols. This vendor is found in settlements and is indicated on the map with the icon of a bag and question mark. The item is at the very bottom of the list of goods sold by the Purveyor, so scroll all the way down. Once purchased they will appear in the Consumables section of your inventory. Whispering Keys are used automatically when you attempt to open a Silent Chest.

How to Farm Murmuring Obols to Get Whispering Key

Murmuring Obols are earned from certain quests, as well as a number of random open world activities including World Events, Zone Events, and cleansing the rare Cursed Chest or Shrine. Being a currency, your current Obol count is located to the farthest right of the Gold counter in the inventory. Note that there is, at least initially, a cap of 500 Obols in your inventory, so be sure to spend them when possible. In order of reliability as a source for Obols:

Complete World Events

Easily spotted on the minimap by the orange halo encircling an area, these open world quests are usually multi-part and end with a combat stage against an onslaught of enemies. Radiance Field Cemetery, south of Kyovashad, appears to have World Events with some regularity. You can farm this by participating in an event, finishing it, town-portalling, and then returning, which should put you into a new shard or instance where the event may be ongoing or even starting up again. If you’re in a party, everyone must leave the Event location, or split that party apart, in order to avoid being anchored to that shard where the Event was just completed.

As a matter of fact, a full party can coordinate Event farming best by splitting up into different shards when searching for Event opportunities, and when someone finds one, they invite everyone back into a new party.

Complete Zone Events

Zone Events occur randomly at fixed locations around the map, just like World Boss Events. However, there will be no global announcement, so you will have to manually check the map every now and then, in order to spot a fluorescent orange icon indicating an impending Zone Event. It is entirely possible to join an ongoing Zone Event midway, but you should avoid town-portalling during the quest or you may not be able to rejoin it. This is also a multi-stage task, and ends with a boss fight with distinct drops from both it and the Reward Chest. It is the latter that gives you Murmuring Obols.

The Event search method mentioned above for World Events should work here as well.

Quests: How to Get Obols to Buy a Whispering Key

While Murmuring Obols are a guaranteed drop from the Murmuring Caches that are these quests’ reward, they can only be done once obviously, and so are not really a farming method. Even so, there are three side quests that will give you some Murmuring Obols:

• “The Cleansing Flame”
  • Zone: Fractured Peaks
  • Quest Location: Margrave
  • Quest Giver and Location: Priest Matvey, in Menestad’s town center
• “Cries of Innocence”
  • Zone: Fractured Peaks
  • Quest Location: Black Asylum dungeon
  • Quest Giver and Location: Vendral Trost, north of Kyovashad’s East Gate
• “The Woodsman of Nevesk”
  • Zone: Fractured Peaks
  • Quest Location: Nevesk
  • Quest Giver and Location: Magdalena, near the chapel in Nevesk

Cursed Chests and Cursed Shrines

Of all the Chests and Shrines to be found in Sanctuary, you will occasionally come across some that are cursed. The enemy hordes that spawn will have to be defeated for the Shrine to be cleansed, with a Radiant Chest as a reward, containing Murmuring Obols.

That was everything to know about Silent Chests, the Whispering Key, and Murmuring Obols in Diablo 4.

Players who want to play Diablo 4 alone may get stuck at the selection screen, looking for the best solo class to use. Luckily, we’ve got you covered!

While there’s no real wrong pick for the class to use, there’s one that stands above the rest with superior survivability and crowd control. When playing solo, survival skills should be your number one priority. With that being said, here is the best solo class to pick in Diablo IV!

What is the Best Solo Class in Diablo 4?

In our opinion, the surefire pick for solo players is the Necromancer. The survivability of the class itself can be enhanced dramatically with blood magic skills providing a bit of overshield and helping heal later on in the skill tree. The basic blood magic attack lets Necromancers keep their distance, another key component if you want to survive Sanctuary alone.

In addition to blood magic, there’s also the Necromancer’s skeleton army, the second key to making it Diablo 4‘s best solo class. Necromancers can raise skeletons from enemy corpses. The best way to deal with enemies when you’re playing alone? Use your enemies to no longer be alone!

These minions have quite a bit of their own autonomy, and can handle themselves quite well. In addition, as you progress and level up, your army capacity will expand, giving you quite a few forces to protect yourself with. Your army can be enhanced in other ways too, with both skill tree nodes and equipment to increase your minions’ maximum health and damage.

That’s all you need to know about the best solo class in Diablo 4! Get ready to raise your army of the dead and take on any opposition Lilith throws at you. Check out our guide on the Diablo 4 KFC cosmetic rewards to get some great costumes to outfit your new Necromancer with!