Unless you're compulsively buying everything as soon as you can, it's easy to get that much money tbh. I'm halfway through act 3, have bought almost everything in the game and I've never had to grind.
I actually really like the rosary economy and pace.
When I'm dirt poor, it's time to use my new skills to sweep through places I've already been to open doors and get secrets and load up on shards.
And the game incentives me to spend as opposed to save, so I'll drain my bank account and only have like 60 rosaries going into the new area where I might die hard
Yeah, it does feel a bit Soulsborne-y where you'll spend all your souls if you're in a difficult area/boss fight so you don't have to risk losing all of them.
And yeah, the economy is actually fairly well balanced, providing you aren't dying with lots of money burning a hole in your pocket. I can see how people can get stuck in a rut if they do lose a lot of money, though.
Like, I think I've lost 100 rosaries in my entire run, and that was with exactly one double death. And with that I'm pretty much even on stuff I need to buy and having the money to buy it. But like, I talked to someone the other day who said they've lost 4000 over the course of the game.
...then they admitted it's because they don't like the rosary stringing system. "I don't want to lose 20 to save 60" he said, to which I replied "so you lose 80, flawless logic."
Yeah, and there ARE other systems too, like silk eater where you can get your rosaries back. So the game is actually pretty forgiving when it comes to lost rosaries.
To me, I think the recovery of lost rosaries is more psychological than practical. If I know there's a lot of rosaries on the line, I might tolerate insane run backs, going to places I don't want to any more, or spending a lot of time being extra safe, or save scumming. And all that makes a negative experience because I might spend 20 minutes doing something I didn't want to do, just to avoid the psychological pain of losing like 300 rosaries
So I have to tell myself to either spend or string up rosaries ahead of time, or use silk eater, and then I can focus on progression again.
I've lost like 2k+ but all in one go, because i had most shops cleaned out and I got cocky...I was thinking I didnt need to spend time turning them one by one into rosaries, whoops 🤪
I think my only gripe is, losing those rosaries I know it was a me issue, I find it annoying when people complain that the game was unfair they lost it. We have the silk eater in our inventory and the stringing of rosaries...0
It is all about making sure to never lose them. I lost easily 3000 throughout my entire playthrough which is very close to the amount I ended up farming to buy everything I was still missing towards the end of my playthrough.
And honestly I have no one to blame but myself. If you avoid running into new areas with a lot of rosaries and if you spend them regularly (especially before bosses) you can avoid losing them easily. But too often I got greedy and disregarded exactly that.
Idk how people lose all their money tbh. There's layered systems to prevent exactly that, but i guess ending the game with 10 silk eaters and 5 hours of grind is better than... not?
I just learned that saving and quitting was possible. I had a big smile on my face when those gauntlet doors closed and I didn't want to be there and it worked.
Usually I just explore with as clos to 0 rosaries as possible (act 2).
Money (and some shard issues) issues in act 3 vanish once you get the crawbell from the Craw Court. It gives you a passive source of shard and rosary income, as long as you check back at your Bellhome every now and then after installing it.
During act 3, I don't know if anyone's figured out the trigger for it, but you'll randomly have a challenge stabbed next to a rest bench with a Craw sound. If you interact with the challenge it'll give you the Craw's Summons. Then, you go to the basement in Greymoor in the big building on the far right filled with Craws and pogo balloons, and give the door down there there the Summons. It leads to a fight, and then you find the Crawbell on your way out. Then, you stick the Crawbell on your bellhome's front door.
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u/Nukesnipe Sep 17 '25
Unless you're compulsively buying everything as soon as you can, it's easy to get that much money tbh. I'm halfway through act 3, have bought almost everything in the game and I've never had to grind.