Does anyone know if there’s a way to toggle off the pet auto salvage? Sometimes I use the yellows to convert with cube recipies #3,7,and 8 and it would be nice to be use the items that drop for me rather than using the blood shard or crafted ones.
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Dismiss your pet. Otherwise, no.
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If you’re fast you can snatch some of the yellows before the pet gets to them.
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You can get the pet stuck between obstacles while picking items. While timing it is hard, as long as you don’t move when the loot dropped (ie. clicked cache, shelves or a rack), pet won’t rush towards the item to salvage it. You have to be in the pickup range and standing still when the loot dropped so it’s not really a solution either. The moment you step towards anything pet will sweep everything before you can pick it up. In case you’re bored of fighting over basic loot, you can always dismiss your pet too.
Instead of frowning upon your pet or dismissing it, you can easily buy any kind of basic item from town vendors and use them in the convert material recipes. Down side to that would be the town vendors are not entirely fully stocked on rare items, most of the time so you may wanna look at side quests that give you access to a merchant NPC when completed.
If your set on gems, you can convert gems to yellows making rings.
Just use Kadala rares or buy from the NPC.
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Use the yellows you gamble shards from Kadala. That’s what I do.
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The only option would be to dismiss (un-equip) the pet entirely, if you are not wanting to gamble, buy or craft the item you need.
Good luck.
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um kadala gives more than enough yellows to convert
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To the “just use the kadala yellows” people, this goes for converting mats (page 7 and 8), but for upgrading rares (page 3), you want a specific item type that you may not want to gamble. For tal rasha for example, you upgrade staffs, which are very very expensive to gamble for. 75 shards for a 2h weapon, and only a fraction of those are staffs. Now we craft the yellow staffs from the blacksmith, but it’s quite expensive to craft so stopping to pick up yellow staffs for tal rasha is worth a fair bit of mats, and is totally worth the time, at least early in the season.
Would be great if you could tell your pet to pick up everything, but don’t salvage yellow staffs, but that’s obviously not going to happen. The auto-pickup is still a big net gain in mats, as all the extra mats more than make up for what you’d save from picking up yellow staffs. And it’s nice QoL not having to pay attention to yellow drops when running keys, just let the pet do it’s thing.
While I agree they could use shards and whatnot to get yellows to burn, they did specifically say they didn’t want to use that method. So the only real answer is to turn off the pet since we can’t customize it.
But, that’s me having read the full first post. And even repeated with a quote to the same above. But still people keep suggesting what the OP was not wanting to do… So…
Just saying.
Game on.
True - it’s a great thing. Though, honestly, they half-a$$ed it. I mean, apart from gold the pet in S28 can collect (and salvages) white, blue and yellow items… and Death Breath. But why the heck has the person who did this not thought about all these normal mats. Yeah, vacuum pickup, but you still have to pick every different material that drops… that’s beyond stupid. I understand why the pet won’t fetch gems, as they go into the character inventory, but the mats? Why not autocollect those? I fail to understand…
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The only way is to unsummon the pet.
By the time you’ve actually got to the auto-salvage pets thing you shouldn’t really be having much issue with simply crafting stuff for cube recipes…
Given that even if you rush straight for that node, you’d still have to have gotten 50 Forgotten Souls and beaten the Uber Bosses. Let alone if you picked up any other nodes to improve your combat capabilities and so require the GR80 clear for the 1100 Blood Shards…
Yes, it would be crazy to gamble for a specific weapon. The odds are terrible there. Craft level 70 staffs at the blacksmith so that you’re guaranteed the right type, and then use Page 3 to upgrade those rares. If you really need a staff, waiting for yellow staffs to drop from combat and upgrading those is terribly inefficient, too.