Running out of stash space

General Discussion
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Is this a usual problem? And I’m only maining one class rn. I imagine I’d run out more if I play multiple classes. On the set pieces alone 2 tabs is not enough. 1 tab for jewels and gems, another tab for ancient drops, one for legendary drops for other classes (saving when i play them later).

I salvage all rares and normals. I’ve tried salvaging double copies of legendaries or those with bad rolls. Currently farming bounties rn so I can extract every legendary power that can be extracted so I don’t have to save legendaries I won’t be using on my main.

What else do you do to save space?

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Remove trash; salvage all non-Ancient items and just cube or salvage all trash legendaries. You’re just playing one class, it shouldn’t take all those stash tabs to keep related equipment.

Also remember finishing Season Journey 'till the end will reward you an extra stash space each season up to 5 and buying Necromancer DLC will add two extra.

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As of Patch 2.6.5, the maximum number of Stash Tabs attainable is 13.

  • Diablo 3 + Reaper of Souls - 6 stash tabs
  • Necromancer DLC - 2 stash tabs
  • Season Journey Conqueror - 5 stash tabs

Only one tab per season can be earned, which means that Conqueror must be achieved in five separate seasons to unlock the maximum of five tabs this way. As Seasons last approximately three months with 1-2 weeks between them, this will take well over a year.

If you’ve gotten the six “free” tabs, you’re looking at either having to buy the Necromancer DLC (for two more) or completing the Conqueror stage of multiple seasons.

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Absolutely don’t salvage all non ancient gear. Not untill you have a better ancient version. But you’ll need to salvage a lot of useless items.

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If a non-ancient item sits on your stash for a whole week what are the chances of you to equip them? That’s hoarding for no reason. Unless you’re playing Hardcore of course.

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Instead, I “Global Play”, main 2 to 3 classes per server.
You may try this if you are solo and/or just join Public :slight_smile:

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I don’t salvage non-ancient legendaries because I read there are instances when some legendaries are boosted and those who salvaged them regretted it. esp if it became hard to find. i think keeping one copy per legendary just to be safe. i’m also saving for each crusader build, so i can switch builds.

also, why do I only have 5 stash tabs when I’ve bought the necro dlc + ros? is there something i need to do?

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You’ll have to use google, diablofans, icy veins, youtube to get an understanding of what items for different builds that are valuable, and what affixes they need, in order to find out what you can safely salvage. Generally speaking most items are junk and will never be used. But some items are worth holding on to even if you don’t plan to use them immediately. It could be things like Nemesis or Strongarm bracers with good stats but with different elemental %damage affixes (or the possibility to roll them good) and also things like Traveler’s pledge amulets and so forth.
Still, it’s important to sort out your junk.

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Well i got same problem. I got items for every class. Like wd jade and zuni set, wiz lon bazooka and vyr chantondo.

On top of that like 20 puzzlie rings, a lot of gems, It makes managing stash hard.

if you havent played in previous seasons you will find stash size too low.

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Icy-veins has a very good overall salvage guide/list. -If the item you have is not on the list (Used in any build on their site) you can most likely salvage it.

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Changes are NOT retro-active most of the time. Items you own won’t get affect form such buffs. You ain’t helping anything or solving a problem by hoarding junk items at low quality, or useless ones at high quality.
In case you wanna ease your burden just extract their power from the Kanai’s Cube. If you have no idea reading the Game Guide linked on the official site may help you.

You must have missing the second page of the stash access, in case you have ROS you must have at least 6 stash tabs to begin with. That’s without Necro DLC which will give you access for 8 total with RoS before you can claim any extra from Season Journey.

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If I remember correctly you have to buy some of the default tabs with in-game gold.

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Pretty much. Only time changes are retroactive (regarding legendary items) is when that item is being nerfed, at least I believe so.

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Ah yes. Stupid me forgot to count the second page of the stash. I do have 8.

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Keep in mind there are three locations for gear: Character, Mercenary, and Stash. Extra storage space can be gleaned from Mercenaries, but managing these items can be cumbersome. Using extra character slots as item storage also helps.

There are many resources mentioned by others; Icy Veins’ D3 “Salvage Guide” page is great, which gives a huge list of items and build guides they appear. This will at least get you started in recognizing useful items/stats until you become more familiar.

Stash Tab Organization

A way to effectively increase storage space is storage organization. This will reduce cognitive drain of comparing/filter duplicate items and also help with combat downtime.

One strategy I have been using is grouping Stash Tabs by primary stat. I’ve got 13 stash tabs and adopted a nifty way of keeping all sets for every class and their misc pieces intuitively organized.

My very first tab is Gems, Legendary Gems, Infernal Machines, Staff of Herding, and some misc items. All the other tabs are class/primary stat oriented, here is the tab template I use:

Tab Desc
2 Class A Set Pieces
3 Class A Misc + Class Agnostic + Class B Misc
4 Class B Set Pieces

This repeats for Tabs 5-12. The layout for a Class Set Pieces tab is fairly simple; each class set takes a two cell high row and the last remaining two cell row is alternate stat pieces and weapon slot sets. The clever part is tab 3 between these two class set tabs, here is a row breakdown:

Row Desc
1/2 Bracers/Belts/Speed Variant/Etc items (Class A)
3/4 Bracers/Belts/Speed Variant/Etc items (Class A)
5/6 Rings/Amulets/Belts/Etc
7/8 Bracers/Belts/Speed Variant/Etc items (Class B)
9/10 Bracers/Belts/Speed Variant/Etc items (Class B)

For instance, Barbarian Tab | Strength Tab | Crusader Tab:

Many non-set (and many time class specific) pieces like bracers/belts/weapons/shields can be placed in rows 1-4 (Barbarian items) or 7-10 (Crusader items). Row 5/6 can hold the common inter-class items, like: Focus/Restraint, Compass Rose/Travelers Pledge, The Witching Hour, Litany/Wailing, Aquila Cuirass, etc.

This can be repeated for Demon Hunter/Monk, Wizard/Witch Doctor, and Necromancer/Other.

While this doesn’t help you identify which items to keep, it will at least reduce the amount of processing the ol’ noggin has to do.

Anti-Hoarding

Since increasing storage limits caps out, ultimately developing an anti-hoarding strategy is required for proper storage management.

In general, setup a time threshold for getting rid of any non ancient items. If you haven’t used an item in over a (week/weeks/month, relative to playtime of course) shard the badboy. Multiplayer farming is pretty quick these days, which is good enough to get some base level build items.

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This is great help. Thanks!

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Stash space can definitely be a problem for many but not all (e.g., minimalist, low paragon players, people who only play a class or 2). Unfortunately, as we found out last PTR, Blizzard seems unable or unwilling to fix the problem. They claim that they can not give more than 1 stash tab due to causing game instability due to everyone’s stash being loading into everyone’s game memory constantly in multiplayer games. They also stated that they could not give us extra character slots, because they felt that would cause people to switch characters repeatedly, causing other issues.

:pouting_cat:

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This is not exactly true in all cases. Sometimes it is useful to keep non-ancient set items with appropriate affixes if you do not have an ancient version. Also, sometimes it makes sense to keep an extra legendary for the sake of rerolling.

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If a reroll cause you to keep a non-ancient item from using it then re-roll it quick and equip that. What exactly keeping you from that and let it sit on your stash for a whole month?

Then you have 3 stash tab worth of space as well?

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It is not always practical or quick to reroll a non-ancient to ancient. On average, it takes 50 of each act material plus 500 forgotten souls to reroll to ancient. 10% of the time, you will reroll 20 times without an ancient upgrade (100 bounty materials from each act and 1000 forgotten souls). RNG is RNG.

The new ancient item that was rerolled still may have 2 bad affixes and then the whole process starts again.

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