Can you undo a category in the Altar of Rites? I didn’t realize that my pet would atomatically salvage everything, instead of giving me the option to sell it. I thought the items would go directly into my stash
You can’t and wouldn’t 
Selling stuff is a very poor way of getting gold. You can of course un-equip your pet at any time.
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Ya the only way around it is to be faster than your pet can salvage, or unsummon the pet. I agree it can be annoying if I want to transmute recipes for materials, but overall it’s very nice to have pet auto salvage
Why would you want to sell items? You can get 1000x more gold by doing greater rifts or puzzle rings
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Earendil is maybe struggling to get a build going and instead going broke in repairs.
Or trying to level two Seasonal Characters at the same time. This can be expensive early on and at lower Game Difficulties.
So true.
Pets auto-salvaging items gives you Materials.
The only time you might need to use the Pleasure of Iben Fahd Cube Recipe to convert Reusable Parts or the Regret of Iben Fahd Cube Recipe to convert Arcane Dust is when you get low on Veiled Crystals. And that’s what all the Magic and Rare items you get from Kadala are for.
It should be extremely rare that you would need to convert Reusable Parts to Arcane Dust.
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how can you advance so far in the altar without getting 70? something is not making sense here
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It’s getting whites to convert that is usually the issue. But if you dismiss the pet and run around Battlefields of Eternity you can pick up 20-30 white items in 10 minutes. Or run visions until you get some goblins and get thousands of mats.
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Why does getting a build going mean you aren’t 70? That’s when getting the build going can be the most mat consuming. Especially if you used gift on another character.
OP has a level 70 Crusader and is at 100ish paragon. They only have a career 600 paragon, so figuring the OP is having a L2P issue.
It is a waste of time to convert yellows/blues to reusable parts. Leave the pet on, click on racks as you go by. One white item is like 8 parts on average, one blue is like 3 dust on average, one yellow is one veiled crystal. Just clicking on the racks as you go by and doing Visions will net you far more parts and dust than crystals over time. When you get low on crystals, do as Perusoe said, and use yellow items from Kadala to convert parts and dust to crystals.
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The one that I had to do for a bit was converting white items to reusable parts. At this point it’s whatever of course, but early on sometimes specific materials get low and using the cube recipes is nice, but you can’t if you never pick up any white/blue items and they get auto salvaged
Um… Pets pick up and salvage Common items for Reusable Parts.
But, if you equip a Pet (with the Altar’s Husk Seal unlocked) you can pick up 20-30 items while your Pet picks up another 20-30 items and salvages them for a total of 40-60 items in the same 10 minutes. (You don’t have to stop and wait for your Pet to pick everything up).
And with the Pet equipped you won’t have to make as many trips back to town as often.
Um… You don’t need to Convert Common items (white) to Reusable Parts. You SALVAGE Common items to get Reusable Parts. It’s the same when your Pet picks up and salvages Common items.
Converting items also costs Death’s Breaths.
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I don’t understand the sell part either, it makes literally no sense.
However, not getting gear while levelling can be awkward.
… Except wearing a couple level 70 pieces will do the trick, a weapon in particular. That’s something less obvious, but certainly the actual purpose of the node, to allow levelling alts, especially hardcore.
I don’t see any scenario where you’d want to sell items, I’m certainly a weirdo in D3 but if anything I have too much gold. Yes, you can reforge ad nauseum or empower those rifts but why would you do that until bankruptcy. (Besides, I run out of gems sooner.)
There is one interaction that makes me curious, the hoarding goblin that picks up trash items to reward a magic item after every 12-15. But that isn’t useful either these days.
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Yes, you do. I think it’s recipe 9? Sometimes Reusable parts get used the most, and need to be replenished. Replenishing them through the recipe is the fastest way. 10 white items = 1000 parts via cube, and only ~75 if salvaged.
Deaths breaths are a very serious NON issue. They are essentially infinite to anyone who has played season for any length of time, getting both double death breath and auto pickup death breath make them the most plentiful resource aside from bounty materials
I understand your difficulty with fathoming any scenario where someone is converting materials to reusable parts; I forgive you.
Most, if not all, cube recipies and most, if not all, of rerolls use yellow mats more than the other two. So neither is a reason that white mats are in short supply compared to the other two. That, plus whites give the most per salvage than blues and yellows.
Thus, I’ve never needed to convert anything into whites. Just playing and picking up what drops with or without a pet is always enough.
If anything, I’ve only ever had to convert to yellows, never to whites or blues.
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Later in the game this is true. But, the OP is trying to level two Seasonal Characters at the same time. One is Level 70 (109) and the other is Level 61 (109) as of this post.
You understand nothing. And I don’t need your forgiveness.
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Just throwing this out there but you can get white, blue and yellow items from vendors. The “Collector” labeled vendors will often have white items for sale along with blues and yellows. Not all of them will but at least one in the game will. And even though they might only have one or two in stock, you can repeated buy one to fill up your pack.
Comes in handy when in higher difficulties your Veiled Crystals and Arcane Dusts can far outstrip your Reusable Parts and you’re looking to cube rare items up to legendaries.
As far as getting gold in the early game. Running an act or two of bounties will get the ball rolling. But what you really need to do is get at least one Puzzle Ring so you can get Boon of the Hoarder from Greed. Once that gem is at 50 you’ll have no more gold problems.
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You don’t have to sell anything unless you are playing hardcore. Just set the difficulty higher and you’ll get plenty of gold to upgrade your artisans. Once you have trained them to maximum level, you shouldn’t have any more problems about gold as long as you play at medium-high Torment difficulties. As long as you keep difficulty at a reasonably high scale, you would have two moments where you struggle about gold; first leveling to 70 and very end game where you dump hundreds of millions to empower the Greater Rift.
In case you don’t want pet to salvage stuff, just unequip it completely from cosmetics menu and witness how slow you are at clearing items. You can reach that cosmetics menu by clicking the mirror at the left corner of the character select screen or in-game. Also you access it by clicking the mirror around the Mystic Artisan. Just click unequip from there and enjoy the game at your own pace.
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The only possible way I see the need to sell is if you played Hardcore (or deleted your character in softcore), managed to gamble all your materials away, avoided unlocking the “Remove Level Requirement” node on the alter, and died (losing your character).
Even if you went straight for that node, you’d have to have completed a Greater Rift 60, at which point, just running one would make you more money than selling a full inventory full of trash gear. A GR50 for example gives about 6 million gold on completion.
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I don’t know, I run a ton of Visions each season and am always Veiled Crystal starved. Reusable Parts usually slightly beats out my Arcane Dust. The only scenario I can see having an excess of Veiled Crystals is if you are running massive GRs and doing basically no Visions.
??? Why would you need to sell stuff on HC?
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