Gold Digging - A guide for easy gold farming

Dispite what the title says, you're not going to be digging for gold in Dungeon Defenders 2. But it is a guide to farm easy gold. So if you read this guide and do what it says, you'll multiply your gold per battle by at least 10.

Preparing for the gold farming

So before you can get to the gold farming, there's a few things you need: 56000 gold and a medium sphere. Well the 56k gold is for the sphere, but it is a necessary investment if you want to get a lot of gold. You want to buy this particular sphere:
You get the sphere at the Gran Master (like most spheres) and as it says in the description, you now have a 15% chance of enemies to drop 100 additional gold when killed by a hero. By equiping this sphere you give up on another medium sphere, but when you're bankrupt (like I've been a couple of times), that isn't very important. Once this is done, move to the next step.

Note: You don't have to equip the More Gold Picked Up sphere, it doesn't affect the gold you get from this.

Where to farm?

Now that you have your sphere, you want to select a map where you can fight a lot of enemies, as that will give you the most gold. Here are my two Favorites:

Crossroad Incursion
The easiest incursion available with lots of mobs in total, this is a optimal map for farming gold. But it can be hard for less experienced players to solo (which I do not recommend in this situation, more on that later). I haven't tried other incursions yet, but if they have a high mob count, then go for it.

Onslaught
Yeah that's right. You can get loads of gold from the mode that's only used for getting golden pets. But this mode is more unreliable as a gold farming method because you get random rounds. Here, you are looking for a specific round, the Horde ones. Since Onslaught rounds will last for three turns, the total mob count can be well over 2000. But you might also end getting a Kobold round. Or a Drakin round. I won't recommend using this for farming because you are not guaranted a Horde round.

Now I'll return to the thing I talked about in the Incursion part. It's a good idea to play with other players for one reason:
The more the merrier RICHER
The best thing about the Hero Gold Sphere is that you not only get gold when YOU kill something, but you also get gold when your TEAMMATES kill something! That's a 4x multiplier on your gold production!

Here's an recent example with me (no pictures, sadly): I did the Crossroad Incursion five times with three other teammates. After those five rounds, I had nearly made 100k gold.

Additional tips and ways to increase your gold production

This section is mostly for tips and other ways to increase the gold you get per battle. If you happen to have a tip that isn't here, feel free to let me know in the comment section and I'll put the tip here with your name next to it.

• Get the Jackpot passive: The Jackpot passive will give you a small percentage to multiply the gold you collect by four. Although a small benefit with a single Jackpot stat, it can tremendously increase your gold per battle if you have a lot of them. The max value for the Jackpot passive is 105%, but that is only achieveable with the Squire
  (Credit to Chillix for the information)
  (Credit to DKperfection for the max values of Jackpot)
  
• Take off your pet: If you REALLY need that extra gold you can take off your pet, because pets don't count as heroes and will therefore not give you a chance to get more gold when they kill an enemy. Therefore you have to make up your mind if you want better stats or more gold.
  (Credit to Chillix again)
  
• Splody Harpoons(?) Apparently the damage from the Splody Harpoon will enable that tower to make enemies drop the 100 gold. This is a bug, so it'll likely be removed in the future but feel free to use it for now.
  (Credit to Brion for the information)
  
• Sell eggs and boxes At some point you'll reach a point where you have good, high-level pets for your characters, so boxes and eggs won't be that necessary anymore. Sell them! They give 250 gold each, which can be a big bunch of money if you have a bag full. Also, open pet food boxes. There is no downside to this as the most common pet food (the fish) will also give you 250 gold, same as the box. You might end up getting rare and exquisite pet food, which is worth a lot more
  (My own tip)

Afterwords

Well, that's it. A sphere, some friends and a lot of enemies and you're good to go.
I hoped that this guide helped you out of DD2 bankruptcy
Feel free to comment questions, corrections and, well, comments. But do that here in this comment section, and don't comment on my profile or friend me to tell me something about the guide.

[prpl_mage]

No, spheres are gone so it doesn't apply.

Jackpot remains as a shard dropped in Chaos 3 which at max gives a 15% chance that the gold you pick up is quadrupled. However, we're not talking big money here since coins are 1g and bags are 10-20(?)

You can still sell eggs and pet food for 250 gold or more, also gear starts to reach the 200 mark around chaos 3.

Some other advice is to keep playing maps and not quit or return to tavern.
For each completed map an exp and gold chain is increased, after 6 games or so that bonus gold is quite a lot. The higher the tier, the more noticable the chain becomes since it's some percentage of the win reward.

[Heyarai]

@Whįtēfløwěr's Rēąper I really wouldn't count on it. Stopped playing a long time ago, so I don't even know if all this still applies. TBH I had even forgotten that I had this guide.

[Whįtēfløwěr's Rēąper]

will this be updated any time soon?

[Heyarai]

@Vankman Maybe I should have made it more clear that Onslaught is not optimal for gold farming because of the random selection of type of rounds.
I don't really have a preferred map for farming. But the Gates of Dragonfall Incursion might give a lot of lot because of the hordes that come every round, but I haven't tested it yet

[Vankman]

Onslaught is so bad for this its not even funny. Tried 2 times with onslaught and both times were the worst mistake I did.
1st game I got my 1st horde at round 9. =/
And 2nd time I tried I got 3 kobold rounds in a row before I quit. >=/
Imo best map is Bazzar hard mode, not to many flyings, dont need to run much and if Malthius spawn kill him last cause his skellies can also drop gold.

[Schubbey]

open console and write startfire, so you dont even have to click left mouse

[Heyarai]

@PhoenixKracken I don't think that the Gold Bonus III sphere even works with this 100 gold. I've used it for a while now, and I haven't gotten any bonus from it. I believe that this particular sphere only applies to gold dropped normally

[Guts]

I would also suggest adding the Gold Bonus III sphere to mix. "Increase gold gained by 30%". Really there is no reason not to, since there are two medium sphere slots.
I do not know if this would apply before or after "Jackpot", but from farming gold a few times I'd guess that it applies before jackpot, but I think if it does it should be after; perhaps because I'm greedy. Please feel free to correct/inform me on before/after jackpot.

[DKperfection]

The 3 waves you get of hordes make up for it big time though, you earn more gold in 3 waves of horde than in 3 entire games :P
Well, the longer you go into onslaught the more enemies pr horde wave. at round 20 or so you can easily get 1000 enemies in the first wave :)

[Heyarai]

@Brion Wow, i didn't know that. I'll add that to the guide but like you say, it will probably be fixed soon
@DKperfection True, but most of the time you get bad rounds like Kobolds or skeletons. BTW do you know if there are more mobs per round in the harder Onslaught levels?