On the Diablo 3 profile screen, there is a stat called collected gold.
What does it include?
- Gold picked up from the ground?
- Gold earned from quests?
- Gold collected from the trade screen?
- Sales to vendors?
- Sales to the auction house?
Diablo – What’s included in the collected gold stat
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All Diablo 3 Auction Houses (both Real Money and gold) are regional, one of the same three regions there are for servers:
The Americas, Asia, and Europe.
Additionally, Hardcore characters are entirely separate from "softcore" characters - this means no trading and a separate shared stash, but it also means a separate pair of auction houses to boot.
You have to send items purchased from the auction house to your stash explicitly. This extra step is so you can purchase things you don't actually have space in your stash for, it lets you queue up to 50 things in the auction house "outside" of the game.
You do so from the left side of the Completed tab.
Select the item purchased, then hit "Send To Stash".
Pictured here is sending gold from the sale of an item, but the same system applies to buying items.
It doesn't really make sense that you have to send gold to the stash IMO, but whatever.
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Best Answer
I wanted to test this out my selling some items on the auction house and then seeing if the value changed.
As you can see, the amount does not change from selling items on the auction house. And yes, I did click "Send to Stash".
Next I will test out selling to vendors. Before selling my chain belt, I have 76238 gold. After selling it, I have 76242 gold, and if selling to vendors increased Gold Collected, my total Gold Collected should be 144,077 + 4 = 144,081.
Now, I go back to the menu and check to see if the Gold Collected has gone up. It hasn't.
Finally, I will complete a quest to see if the reward affects Gold Collected. I will be doing the quest Heart Of Sin - Kill Azmodan. During this quest, I avoided all of the monsters prior to Azmodan, to avoid getting any gold.
As you can see here, I'm entering the lair of Azmodan with the same gold as before - 76242. Below is the screenshot of the quest reward.
The Quest Reward is 620 Gold, so that should increase my Gold Collected from 144,077 to 144,077 + 620 = 144,697. Unfortunately, I was forced to get a tiny amount of gold when getting Azmodan's Soul since the gold was in the way. However, I did not collect any gold other than at this point. When I see my Gold Collected, it should see be just a little higher than 144,697.
144,802. Believe me when I say I collected nowhere near 725 gold. So I come to the conclusion that quest gold does affect gold collected.
TL;DR Gold collected on the ground affects it. Gold from vendors does not affect it. Gold from the auction house does not affect it. Gold from quests affects it.