It seems no matter how high Blizzard set the materials cap, some players will always need bigger coffers!
We’ve seen the materials caps rise a few times in Diablo 4, with the latest reaching just shy of one million for gem fragments. Well, it seems the next increase will have to be 9 million, as plenty of players have already collected the maximum amount!
The Fragment Hoarders
Season 5 is only a little over a month old and plenty of players are reporting being capped out on the 999,999 shard for specific gems (or even all of them). This isn’t exactly a problem, but it’s always annoying seeing so many items on the ground. And since there’s no loot filter, it can get pretty messy pretty fast. This particular mass-fragment issue started with Season 5c, as the culprit for the gem-madness is Infernal Hordes! There’s a whole bunch of fragments coming from the materials chests, so players are very gem-rich.
The other issue is that you can’t really get rid of them without spending a whole lot of gold. Crafting gems isn’t cheap and so toxicredditanon was wondering just what to do with the fragments!
A (Not Perfect) Solution
It seems there isn’t a great solution but, as always, the community did come up with at least one solid alternative. One cheaper solution (at least gold-wise) is to craft a whole bunch of 
Chorus of War. It costs 200 fragments, but you’ll also need a solid amount of Angelbreath, Veiled Crystals and Bundled Herbs. But with all those fragments at least you’ll be getting a pretty much permanent +40 all stats and some crit and overpower damage!
The alternative is, of course, to just craft some gems. It’s pretty expensive, so you’ll maybe need to open some gold chests in Hordes as well! And perhaps you can sell some of the gems to newer players, or those that didn’t go quite as Hordes crazy.
So, what do you think our next materials cap is going to be (whenever it’s raised)? 9 million? 99? Or 666,000,000,000?