How do we make gold useful?

[Kasreyn]

With the max sell cap, there are tons of items you can find in mere hell outer plains that hit the cap. Trust me, it takes my high level barb a LOT longer to make a certain amount of XP than it does to make an equal amount of gold.

Besides, the other nasty thing about this idea is that it is not based on your skill selections, thus you could create ANY cockamamie skill distribution you wanted and still get it to high levels. Why? Because you wouldn't have to slug it out with the nasties. Skill builds have been devised the way they have because they allow you to defeat the monsters to gain the XP. If you no longer have to defeat the monsters...

kinda changes things a bit much for me to stomach. ;-)

-Kasreyn