Diablo Immortal Hell Level 8 Bricklaying Test: With a Cloud Phone Resolution of 900×1600, Can You Really Earn 38% More Than at 720p?

Recently, the Diablo Immortal Asia server trading groups have been quite active—the gold price for Hell 8 has risen again following the 2.3 patch adjustments. Many “gold-farming” players are racing to break the record of earning 10,000 white gold per day on a single character. Yet you’ll notice that, even with identical 24-hour AFK farming sessions, others consistently out-earn you.

We recently tested a cloud-based Pad farming setup, where the sole critical variable was screen resolution. Today, we’re laying out our real-world test data and discussing whether using a 900×1600 large-screen resolution is truly worth it—or just a waste of money.

One Degree Wider Field of View, One Tier Higher Yield

Everyone knows the “golden route” for Hell Level 8: Painful Corridor → Hell Teleport Point. Its core principle is “four chests per map.” To loot all chests in a single pass, horizontal field of view is critical.

At the standard resolution of 720×1280, the horizontal pixel count is 720, yielding an average of 2.3 chests visible on-screen simultaneously. In contrast, the tablet-version cloud phone at 900×1600 adds 180 extra horizontal pixels, raising the average number of simultaneously visible chests to 3.7.

What does this extra field of view mean? Your character can lock onto hidden chests without backtracking—saving an average of 9.4 seconds per run. At 22 runs per hour, the base drop rate increases directly by 17%. In the efficiency-driven gold-farming race, this seemingly small advantage compounds over a full day into tangible, real-world gold.

Stability Is the Ultimate Priority

The biggest pain point of running games on physical smartphones is overheating-induced throttling. In Hell Mode 8, where monster density is high and all visual effects are enabled, low-end devices can experience a drastic frame rate drop—from 60 FPS down to as low as 25 FPS—causing the system’s thermal protection mechanism to trigger and disconnect the session.

In this test, the cloud phone leverages enterprise-grade GPU passthrough (an NVIDIA T4 GPU with 16 GB VRAM, sliced for allocation), maintaining a stable frame rate of 58–61 FPS while keeping CPU utilization below 34%. It ran continuously for 72 hours without a single crash. Compared to physical devices, this translates to an additional ~42 minutes of effective uptime per day—equivalent to roughly 1,300 extra White Coins.

Crunching the Numbers: How Long Until Break-Even?

Based on the current Asia server exchange rate of 10,000 White Coins ≈ ¥215, here are the average 7-day earnings for three different setups:

Setup	Daily White Coins	Daily Cash Value (¥)	Monthly Net Income (¥)
Physical Phone (4 hrs manual operation)	7,200	155	4,650
Cloud Phone (720p, 24h)	9,800	210	4,860
Cloud Phone Pad Edition (24h)	13,500	290	7,260

As shown above, the Pad Edition’s higher resolution combined with GPU acceleration delivers a dual boost—increasing per-device daily output by 38%. After deducting hardware costs, the break-even period shortens to just 20 days. Furthermore, should future versions be released, existing image templates can be reused seamlessly, rendering marginal costs virtually zero.

Final Thoughts

While most players are still debating whether drop rates have been secretly adjusted, top-tier studios have already shifted their battleground to the cloud. Once hardware barriers are eliminated, the competition boils down to who can seize the tool-based advantages first.

Of course, cloud-based grinding does carry risks related to account compliance. For those interested in trying it out, we recommend starting with small-scale testing. Do you think manual grinding still offers viable opportunities in the current version? Feel free to share your output metrics in the comments!