Diablo 4: Murmuring Obols Guide

What are they, where do you get them, and what do they do?

As you chase Lilith to the ends of the world, you are bound to collect Murmuring Obols. Hell (...), you may not even realize that you did. Similar to gold, they just get collected and take up no room in your inventory outside of the indicator at the bottom of your inventory screen.

If you played Diablo 3, Murmuring Obols are Diablo IV’s Blood Shards. Only one particular vendor, the Purveyor of Curiosities, will accept them as payment. If you did not play Diablo 3 or do not remember Blood Shards, this vendor’s inventory is part unknown. You can purchase gear for specific slots but you have no idea what you get until you actually buy an item. Is it worth it? Well, there is a chance at legendaries. What else are you going to use the Obols for?

Obols drop all over the world. They are guaranteed to drop when completing any event AND the mastery objective. End of chest dungeons can have them as well as certain renown. 

When you first start up Diablo IV, you will be capped at 500. This can be increased via Altars of Lilith and Renown tiers. If you hit said cap, any Obols not collected will be wasted. World Tier III allows you to access 2 additional renown per region which also grants +80 to your Obols limit, per region.

What should you buy? The safest bet are Whispering Keys. These open up silent chests around the map that are locked up tighter than Fort Knox. There is no guarantee that the chest contents will be better but the cost outweighs bad luck and/or item you may outlevel very quickly.

Whispering Keys only costs 20 obols, are stackable and end up in the consumables tab. The rest of the items cost as follows:

• Sword - 50 Obols

• Dagger - 50 Obols

• Bow - 75 Obols

• Crossbow - 75 Obols

• Cap - 40 Obols

• Tunic - 40 Obols

• Gloves - 40 Obols

• Boots - 40 Obols

• Pants - 40 Obols

• Amulet - 60 Obols

The other two items recommended to buy are gloves and rings. Gloves can roll any offensive affix (for your class) and only rings can have a chance at legendary resource aspect. Even if you do not get the optimal stats, you can extract the aspect for use on a different item. Good luck out there!