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Greed, Baroness of the Treasure Realm is the mistress of all Treasure Goblins. She first appeared in Patch 2.1.0 ofDiablo III: Reaper of Souls, as the end boss in The Inner Sanctum of The Vault, where she resides.
In-game[]
Greed sleeping. Not for long.
When players enter The Inner Sanctum, Greed is resting at her throne. Kicking the chest from beneath her foot will cause her to wake up.
She uses the following attacks, most of which can be outrun due to her very slow movement speed:
- Smash: delivers a heavy blow with Greed's club.
- Charge: Greed rushes forward, damaging and knocking back enemies in her path. She repeats this attack three times, but if she hits a solid wall or central orb, she will be stunned briefly, and a Treasure Fiend will hop off her back. In that case, her charging rampage will stop.
- Shockwave: a rapid blow that creates a long, very fast piercing shockwave, roughly 20 yards wide, leaving a fissure in the ground that deals high damage. Knocks back if an enemy happens to be in its path.
- Falling Chests: gold starts raining in a small area, followed by the fall of several chests for high Physical damage. The more Life Greed loses, the more raining chests she summons. Moments before said chests fall, the targeted location is highlighted with a fiery circle.
Over the course of battle, Treasure Fiends jump from Greed's back when she charges into an obstacle. They do not attack players, but can be killed for extra loot, and immediately start to channel their escape portal. If all players die and reset the battle, whatever loot the Fiends dropped will be lost. A maximum of seven Treasure Fiends jump down, regardless of whether they're killed.
Once players bring Greed's Life down to around 5% of her maximum, the battle is won as Greed's Strongbox, a massive chest filled with items and gold, appears from above and crushes her. Players are stunned during this period, allowing any Treasure Fiends a chance to escape, although it is possible to kill them after the stun expires, with fast enough attacks. This chest has a guaranteed drop of two Legendary items per run (prior to any reward modifiers), but no gems or materials. If a player does not have the Legendary Gem known as Boon of the Hoarder, one will drop upon killing Greed. (Like other Legendary Gem drops, the Gem will not drop if it is equipped, in inventory, or in stash, including socketed in an item in those locations.)
Greed's Strongbox can be slammed repeatedly onto Greed's bloodied corpse, which somehow ends up inside the chest. This has no real effect and does not award extra loot, but it creates quite a gruesome sight.
Opening the chest begins a 60 second countdown to being forced out of the realm, sending players back to town. Another portal can be opened to a new instance of The Vault after time expires.
Development[]
Initially Greed was going to be male, but the development team changed the character to a female baroness. This fell in line with the beehive motif Blizzard was aiming for with the Vault, as per having a 'queen' at the end of the dungeon.[2]
The repeatability of Greed's Strongbox animation smashing her corpse started as a glitch, but was left unchanged due to players' positive reactions.
Personality and Traits[]
Greed lives up to her namesake, and does not take kindly to intrusion into her realm. She is never satisfied, and sends her minions out to find gold constantly. The incoming gold in turn has to be tallied. And the existing gold must be inventoried to make sure none of it has gone missing. Plus, Greed takes a bath in all her gold every three hours. She is obsessed with all things valuable, and is compelled to increase her wealth.[2]
Images[]
Trivia[]
- Greed bears some resemblance to the Great Goblin from the 2014 Hobbit film adaptation.
- Greed is one of Josh Mosqueira's favorite monsters in Diablo III.[3]
- Greed's death by falling chest might be a reference to:
- The Binding of Isaac, where Greed is killed the same way.
- Castle Crashers, where almost all bosses also have a chest crush them after defeat.
- In The Sanctuary Tarot Deck and Guidebook Greed represents Six of Pentacles card.
Treasure Goblins: Blood Thief • Gelatinous Sire • Gem Hoarder • Gilded Baron • Insufferable Miscreant • Malevolent Tormentor • Menagerist • Odious Collector • Rainbow Goblin
Treasure Realm: Vault Peon • Vault Sentry • Baroness Greed
Other: Snitchley • Herald to the Queen
References[]
- ↑ 2014-11-27, BlizzCon 2014 – Diablo III: What’s Next Panel Transcript. Blizzplanet, accessed on 2015-03-14
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2014-08-13, Patch 2.1.0 Preview: The Vault. Blizzard Entertainment, accessed on 2014-10-28
- ↑ 2014-11-27, BlizzCon 2014 – Diablo III: What’s Next Panel Transcript. Blizzplanet, accessed on 2015-03-11