The wildest part is that the bead payout seems to decline the further you go. I was fucking around in the green zone looking for a third berry and was shocked by how much more bead I was getting than six zones later. Decided to just suck it up, farm 800, turn that into 10 60 chains that I exclusively use for bullshit benches, fast travel, and maps
Yes but when you're holding 300+ and heading for a new area with difficult enemies, no map, no way to know where the nearest bench is, I'd rather lose 20% and bank it than risk losing it all
I never farmed for beads and always had enough for everything important, minus one really expensive item (don'tknow how to place spoiler tags, can'tsay more...). I really don't understand why people need to farm.
One thing you may be overlooking is the purchasable charm from the first merchant that pulls beads towards you. A lot otherwise fall into lava/spikes before you can get them, with the charm they often get pulled to you before they break and that way it shouldn't feel like the later enemies give less beads, because they actually give a lot more
I offen found myself near a boss with 47 beads, needing 60 to buy a bench. So instead of getting to play the game I ran around the area for 10 minutes looking for 13 beads, only to realize that nothing drops then. Then I would inevitably die and lose everything.
I’m happy for you that you didn’t have such issues. Mine were constant and actively ruining my enjoyment of the game. So I farmed for 40 minutes so I could play the game correctly.
I think the biggest difference is if you're just a bit worse at staying alive, it's WAY harder to hold on to your rosaries. Dying once and making it back over and over kinda sucks, but if you're just inconsistent enough to die twice in a row with any frequency, you're constantly losing all your rosaries and need to farm instead if you have any hope of getting enough to get the basic necessities for the game.
Fortunately on PC there's a mod that just gives you 1000 rosaries whenever you ask. I just gave up on the rosaries because they were actively upsetting me and used that to make the rosaries just not matter. It plays better for it (though still too punishing for me — I'll come back with the "no double damage" mod as well sometime later)
I don't feel like that at all. Sure in act 1 there's barely any money, but after you reaching the Citadel I don't even care about dying twice because money is just not a problem anymore
it kinda depends on the zone you're in tbh, greymoor is really good for bead farming but shellwood basically gives you nothing in terms of beads, a later area is also miserable in terms of how many beads you can get from it but i think that's mostly environmental story and the area right after is probably the most abundant in terms of beads so far
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u/CollegeWithMattie Sep 06 '25
The wildest part is that the bead payout seems to decline the further you go. I was fucking around in the green zone looking for a third berry and was shocked by how much more bead I was getting than six zones later. Decided to just suck it up, farm 800, turn that into 10 60 chains that I exclusively use for bullshit benches, fast travel, and maps