How in the hell do you manage gear?

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just sell everything, keep maxroll aspects and 2-3 perfect roll rares.

done

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But don’t I need a ton of salvage mats from salvaging legendaries?

Ironically, managing rares are way easier. There are certain affixes you’re after and it’s far easier to determine what to keep and what to sell. It’s the aspects that are giving me headache due to lack of in-game functionality to search and sort.

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It sounds like that’s kind of on you for letting it pile up so badly? How do you have a full stash of aspects/legendaries that are in no way sorted? Surely you could put all of aspect Y next to other aspect Y’s for easy comparison?

If you have a stash page consisting of aspect X, Y and Z, and then you find a new aspect Y, you can quite easily glance over, compare them, see whether you want to keep the new one, whether it’s better than the old ones, etc etc

But it sounds like you instead have an entire stash full of aspects A through Z, in complete random order, and are then attempting to compare every new aspect/legendary to the entire stash each time?

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Yeah, well. You do one dungeon, you do helltide, something else, etc. Every time I need to empty out my inventory to proceed to the next thing.

I get what you’re saying. Do it at the same time as you’re unloading. Perhaps that’s the solution. So far it didn’t work for me because I was showered by so many legendaries, most with crappy affixes, and I figured “I sort it all out later”.

But I still insist that the lack of any sorting or search in-game is baffling.

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Don’t legendaries have one more affix compared to rares though? Admittedly I’m only level 50, but I haven’t seen a single rare better than my legendaries (even if I were to put an aspect on the rare).

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gear managing would be so much easier if there was search, checking which leggy effects you aready have saved so I don’t end up with 5 duplicates is painful

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not to mention the distance between all the things in towns… who died and decided diablo should place key NPC’s as far apart as possible.

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I just checked Diablo 3 and inventory size is 60.

In D4, 30 for some ridiculous reason. Then nightmare sigils are dropping like candy, but you only have 22 slots in the same bag that potions also go in.

The inventory in this game is an atrocity.

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This is a console game.

Enjoy.

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Sure, a sorting or search mechanic of some kind would be nice. But I do think you can play perfectly fine with the current system, you just need to spend a while sorting out your current stash, and then do the method I explained.

Do something like this - going to use an actual aspect as an example just to make it easier to type out

Page 1 - “Protecting Defensive Aspect”, this is the one that spawns a bubble when not healthy on a cooldown. Varies from 3.0 to 5.0 seconds

So on the left, you’d have the lowest rolls. Maybe a 3.0, 3.2, 3.4, 3.5, 3.5, 4.0… etc, going from lowest to highest

If you find a new one that has a 3.7, you just instantly mouse over the furthest left one. Is 3.7 higher than your weakest version? If yes, get rid of the weakest one, and put your 3.7 in the correct location in the sequence. Then get rid of the 3.0

Obviously you’ll have to do some thinking about how many of each aspect you want to keep - 1? 3? 5? 10? etc. But once you have your stash setup like this, it will be extremely fast and easy to compare. You don’t have to memorize the values, you just compare 1 item to 1 item, and you’re instantly aware of whether you need to keep the new item or get rid of it

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With advanced tool tips turned on it will show you the range at which the stat can roll, for example on my necro I have an aspect that increases minion damage by 60%. It can roll between 40% to 60% so I know this is the max I can currently get.

Be ruthless and keep only top or close to top rolls of build specific and some general aspect rolls.

I keep the class specific (more over build specific) extracted aspects in my character inventory, and put the general aspects usable by any character in a stash tab. Given you won’t be able to transfer items collected now to your seasonal characters, there is no point holding onto a bunch of alternative-build aspects unless you’re just going to make all your classes on Eternal Realm. You’ll be able to farm for seasonal characters during seasonal content

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Uh; yeah. But that’s exactly what the issue was in D3; everything was sets; leggos were just Forgotten Souls.

Here we go…

There are 5 Item Power Break Points.

  • Level 0: 1 – 149
  • Level 1: 150 – 339
  • Level 2: 340 – 459
  • Level 3: 460 – 624
  • Level 4: 625 – 724
  • Level 5: 725+

Don’t waste mats on upgrades for gear unless it’s going to move the item power into the next Breakpoint. This will truly upgrade the item and re-roll all the stat ranges. 725+ has the highest roll ranges.

When it comes to aspects; you can use any lower aspect on a higher piece of gear, but not the other way around.

I.E. Legendary can go on sacred, but sacred cannot go on legendary.

You want to build a clean library of Aspects, not items.

The best items in the game are crafted rares. I.E. You get a good 720 item power rare that has 4 out of 5 stats you need/like/want. You take that 5th one and you reroll it at the occultist.

Then you upgrade the item power to rank 5/5, and THEN you put the aspect you want on it. If you put the aspect on it first, you’ll have made it really expensive to re-roll and upgrade as Leggos take more matts, some of which are rarer.

All rares that are under 700 are for selling to you can get gold to do your rolls.

Leggo drops can still be good, as they are just rares with the aspect as noted here, so you look em over, if they aren’t great, but the aspect is good, you take the aspect. If the aspect is a bad roll, you break it at the black smith.

There is technically no cap to item power that we’ve seen yet, but once you get above 725, the only things that continue to scale with item power is armor and DPS.

DPS is powerful, that’s the only stat you can really use to raise Attack Power consistently. DPS on the weapon is the base variable that Attack Power is calculated on.

So in short; Salvage everything but good aspects, look for Tier 5 Rares, make use of the occultist. Salvage or sell everything else.

Stay away from that “Salvage all rare” button, you will certainly salvage BiS gear if you use this button carelessly.

Side note;

Rare’s are the most valuable items in the game that are not Uniques. Rare’s are freely tradeable until you upgrade/enchant them.

Gold costs and sinks are high, so gold has value.

TRADE YOUR DAMN RARES FOR OTHER PEOPLES GOLD. The only reason people aren’t doing this yet, is because they haven’t realized that the answer to the D3 Drop Rates problem was making it so the best items are crafted instead of found. BiS Rares should be 30-40 million gold.

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I bet they put increase stash size in the paid battlepass.

i bet there will be a small free stash upgrade tier reward to sweeten the blow… but a bigger stash upgrade tier reward to paid battlepass users.

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you wait for them to add stash tabs for 5-10 $ each. They know they didnt give enough and they know they will add later for cash money

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You don’t even need it. One page for aspects, 1 page for uniques, 1 Page for Gems, 1 Page for Rares you’re working on. Everything else should be salvaged or sold, because those matts and gold are necessary for crafting. You really don’t need 100 Aspects extracted, the bag they give you in the inventory is actually more than enough.

Diablo has always been a game that exposes it’s player base. What I mean by that is; people with a hoarding mentality hoard. It doesn’t matter how much space you have, you could have infinite chest space, and you’ll just have infinite junk you’re “Holding on to!” that is exactly that, junk. These people always exhibit the same symptoms in their real life. They have the one thing that’s perfect to get this job done right! The thing is, they can never find it, and they never have a need to use it outside of the original project that they bought it for. STOP HOARDING, hoarding is a mental illness.

The second type of player it exposes, are the ones that don’t really understand how the game works, and those types of people hold on to everything until they ask everybody on their friends list “Is this item good?” They always have a full stash and they regardless will be making gearing mistakes as they get pushed into different directions by the advice people give them.

Having such limited space is important, because it’s a key indicator that you’re not supposed to hold on to that much stuff. If the game is making you think that you DO want to hold onto this stuff, that’s a good indicator the itemization in this game is solid.

This game does solve the drop rate/saturation problem. This game does make gear interesting, this game has solid build planning and a really good combat loop. Learn how to play, learn what has value and why. Once you know what has value, what that value is, and why – you’ll never have space issues. This has been true in every Diablo with the exception of 2, since people farmed for real money and needed bank space to store items that would eventually be sold for cash money on D2jsp.

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You know the stash is shared between all your characters right?
alot of peeople play alts. 4 stash tabs for 5 characters? LOL

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Every character has an exclusive Aspect bag that can carry more than enough aspects for ever slot of their character, PLUS the ones they are actually wearing.

They need not occupy a stash slot. You don’t need every aspect in the game, Legendary/Sacred/Ancestral versions of duplicates.

Try playing the game using the space they give you. [It’s better when you do that, and you’ll end up with more character power too, since you’ll be rich and not matt starved.]

The only thing the stash is for, is Uniques, and Rares that you are in the process of upgrading.

And a place to hold a PvP alt set. Really they give you too much space, and it tricks people into thinking they should hold on to things that “Almost” have value.

Your stash tabs are for Elixir’s and Incenses, and Rare’s you’re upgrading, if the upgrades fail, sell it, start again on a new rare.

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I only extract Aspects that have maximum rolls. No need to extract anything lower. Salvage anything else. if you turn on the Advanced Stats (I forget what the exact name is, it should be under the Gameplay options), you can see the min and max rolls in-game.

I haven’t purchased the second stash tab yet and still have half the spots open in my first tab (it’s used for gems).

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Stash is shared…. Wtf

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What are you talking about? (is this /s? holds up cupped palm under a floating butterfly)