Diablo 4 players are baffled. This feature still exists 13 seasons later

Diablo 4 players are urging Blizzard to remove the maximum number of obols one can have at a time. While Diablo 4 has undergone many changes in its nearly three-year life, including some drastic overhauls that Lord of Hatred made to several core features such as the reworked Skill Tree, removal of potions, and streamlining of endgame content, a cap on the max Obols a player can hold has been there from the very beginning.

Resource management has become more important than ever Diablo 4: Lord of Hatrednow that the Horadric Cube allows players to change equipment to suit their needs. Now that all the gears are in Diablo 4 can potentially be useful to a player's build through the Horadric Cube applying rerolls or transmutations, having access to a steady supply of equipment is incredibly useful. Spending obols to get basic equipment for upgrading is a common use for the currency, but the fact that Diablo 4 still limiting how much of the currency a player can hold makes it less useful in Season 13 than it should be.

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Diablo 4 players request that the maximum Obol limit not be capped

One more post Diablo 4s subreddit from user Colonel_dinggus lamenting the continued limit on the number of obols a player can hold at any given time received over 1.5k upvotes, with dozens of commenters agreeing with the poster. In this post, the user claims that they ran an Escalating Nightmare Dungeon with the Obol Reserve perk and ended up maxing out their Obol capacity before even reaching the dungeon boss. The poster goes on to note that it feels bad to leave behind so much dropped currency that cannot be retrieved simply because the game limits how many obols a player can hold.

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IN Diablo 4Obols can be used at the Purveyor of Curiosities to exchange for a random piece of equipment of a certain type or a Whispering Key, which is used to open Silent Chests scattered throughout the Sanctuary. Obol games are often a good way to stock up on gear for use in Horadric Cube recipes and can even yield quality items like Legendaries and Uniques. Currently, Diablo 4 only allows players to have a maximum of 2,500 obols at any one time, and as user Colonel_dinggus notes, that amount isn't even enough to fill an inventory with rings purchased from the Purveyor of Curiosities.

Other commenters shared the original poster's frustration and went on to question why a cap on this Diablo 4 currency exists even when other resources do not have the same type of limitation. One user suggested that the Obol cap is likely a holdover from an older version of the Diablo 4as there were fewer sources to farm Obols from. With the introduction of features like Escalating Nightmares and Curious Murl the Treasure Goblin, Obols have become easier to find, and resource caps feel arbitrary and outdated.

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To alleviate the headache of traveling to and from a dungeon to spend Obols or risk losing out on those left, some users have suggested simply increasing the cap, potentially scaling with the highest level of The Pit of the Artificer the player has cleared. Others came to say that the Obol border should be completely undemarcated. With Diablo 4 now 13 seasons deep, there is still no indication that this Obol limit will ever be addressed.