Why are stack sizes so random?

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Who came up with these max sizes?

Runes - 100
Elixers - 99
Whisper Keys - 99
Boss Mats - 50
Gems - 50
Incense - 20
Scroll of Restoration - 20
Scrolls from Dark Citadel - 10

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Good question, who knows?
Nonsense.

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blizz math

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For sure at least, 50 is way too low for something that drops every couple minutes or that I need 12 at a time to use.

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I have one entire stash only for mats and it’s hard to make space. I would go for 999 stacks. Mats, runes, potions, elixirs, whatever.
I’m having a bad time even with sigils, I’m destroying everything every 10 minutes, I guess this should be next QoL to process since I suspect dungeons are the most ignored activity right now. But if it’s only me I apologise.

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lol omg every comment here is based. blizz let’s go! yall got much needed work to do giddy up

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Antiquated system.
Remember - their whole design and philosophy at launch was this will be a sloooow game and level 100 would take x time etc.

I think there was a lot of naivete back then w them.

Heck recall the Aspects system of extraction and storage and the Aspect inventory only had 22 SPACES when all other Tabs had 33.
Bonkers.

I have a feeling the low stack count on Boss Mats has more to do with reducing the ease of duping and rmt than anything else.
Token gesture of a “hard line stance” haha.
No offense designers - your hands might be tied with this one, I understand.

An alternative I’ve suggested a number of times…

  • Character Inventory Tab remains at 50
  • ADD: Stash Tab for ALL Consumables, keys etc (outside of standard equipment Tabs.)
    Rework NMD keys to function more like Internal Compasses.
    Allow Boss Materials to stack to 999 or something in STASH but maintain 50 in Character Inventory (if, that is, this is actually their way of slightly and gently inconveniencing duper/rmt folks)

Either way, 100% correct - 50 is too small a size.

Still might be that sticking to original design naivete thinking players will farm and use them here and there vs blasting through hundreds at a shot.

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Cheap duping speed bump.

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