The Scroll of Wealth was introduced during early development. It was a scroll that players could use to instantly sell items from their inventory, without returning to the caravan or dealing with an NPC merchant. The purpose was to work with salvaging and keep gameplay fast and fun, giving players ways to liquidate their inventories without leaving the field of battle.
Scrolls of Wealth were seen in the Blizzcon 2010 demo, but were removed from the game during later development, and replaced by another, not-yet-revealed mechanism to sell items without returning to town. Bashiok revealed this in a forum post in June 2011.[1]
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Scrolls of Wealth Removed
Bashiok revealed that Scrolls of Wealth were gone in a forum post in June 2011.[2]
IMO, get rid of the scroll of wealth, since with town portals it’s useless.
Bashiok: We haven’t had those for a while, although we do have another mechanic to sell items while out and about.
Bashiok: We haven’t had those for a while, although we do have another mechanic to sell items while out and about.
No further details of that new "mechanic" have yet been revealed.
Scroll Revealed
Jay Wilson revealed the Scroll of Wealth during an interview at Gamescom, 2010. His quote was short and to the point, and has not yet been elaborated upon. [1]
We’ve also added a Scroll of Wealth that allows you to sell items right on location.
Scroll Function
The scroll was found from a monster drop in the demo build at Blizzcon 2010. It worked properly; to activate it required one click, which changed the pointer icon. Clicking that on an item sold the item, instantly vanishing it and adding gold to the player's supply.
The scroll was single use. One scroll = one item sold.
This suggests that either the scrolls will be very common, sold by vendors and dropped regularly, or else that they'll make little difference to the overall economy, since players find hundreds of items in any game session. Apparently scrolls are designed for unusual items; if something isn't worth saving to use, but has such a high sales value that it's better to sell than salvage, it's worth using a SoW on.
All items list their gold sale value as part of the hover display in Diablo III, so you know what you're going to get before you use this feature.
Tooltip
During the Blizzcon 2010 build, the tooltip of the Scroll of Wealth was as follow:
- Traveling merchants often use magic to save space in their caravans by transforming their purchased wares to gold.
Unknown Issues
How much will Scrolls of Wealth cost? How readily accessible will they be? It's assumed that they will be sold by the Mystic, or perhaps the Jeweler. They were not seen in the Blacksmith's items for sale, when his interface was profiled in August, 2010.
A buyback menu is part of the basic NPC interface in Diablo III, but it's not known if this is integrated into the Scroll of Wealth. Perhaps retrieving an accidentally-sold item would require a trip to town?
References
- ↑ Jay Wilson Interview @ Gamescom 2010 - IncGamers August 20, 2010
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