Stash Management Tips?

Good morning, everyone! Hope you've all had an excellent weekend so far!

Today's n00b question (and one I don't see discussed much here in the forums) is about stash management.

I'm hooked on the game. I've purchased all of the premium tabs and a dozen extra stash tabs. I have plenty of room for quite some time now, but I'm at a loss for organizing/managing them.

Some of my top questions:

1 - How do you manage items between League & Standard? In other words, what do you keep from your League tabs once it ends & your characters get bumped to standard?

2 - How do you know which uniques to keep? Do you keep them all so you can try builds in standard, or do you only keep the ones relevant to you?

3 - How do you know what to sell as far as gear is concerned, and how do you set up your trade tabs?

4 - For crafting, how do you go about hanging onto gear sets you'll trade for Chaos?

These are the pressing questions I have, but if you have any other advice for me (and other n00bs will benefit, I'm sure), please don't hesitate to leave them!

Looking forward to your replies.

As overall advice you should try to use the smallest amount of stash tabs as you can, not because they cost money, but because you are going to just be collecting junk and wasting time micro managing things not worth your time. Something like 1 currency, 1 quad, 1 premium tab and 4-8 basic tabs is all you ever need.

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2 - How do you know which uniques to keep? Do you keep them all so you can try builds in standard, or do you only keep the ones relevant to you?

Sell every unique that has value (over a few chaos) and vendor the rest. The world is your garge if you ever need to buy a unique for a build.

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3 - How do you know what to sell as far as gear is concerned, and how do you set up your trade tabs?

Appraising gear is an entire topic on itself but you should only be using a single tab to sell gear. If you are finding you need more space than this to sell gear then you are likely not selling them agressively enough.


Stash management has a huge impact on your wealth accumulation and lets you spend more time playing the game instead of playing tetris or trying to pawn off 1 chaos items.

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BleedMeAnOcean escribió:

Good morning, everyone! Hope you've all had an excellent weekend so far!

Today's n00b question (and one I don't see discussed much here in the forums) is about stash management.

I'm hooked on the game. I've purchased all of the premium tabs and a dozen extra stash tabs. I have plenty of room for quite some time now, but I'm at a loss for organizing/managing them.

Some of my top questions:

1 - How do you manage items between League & Standard? In other words, what do you keep from your League tabs once it ends & your characters get bumped to standard?

It really depends on your playing habits. People that only play in the leagues generally have a huge horrible mess in standard that they don't care about. I mostly play standard but occasionally play in the leagues so my standard stash is generally in good shape. What one keeps is going to be very dependent on how many tabs one has. I have well over 100 tabs. With a dozen or two empty. I have some tabs with loot that I haven't looked at in ages.

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BleedMeAnOcean escribió:

2 - How do you know which uniques to keep? Do you keep them all so you can try builds in standard, or do you only keep the ones relevant to you?

Personally I sell all uniques. The idea is that when I want a unique for my own use then I will just purchase it, of course checking first if I have one for trade. I have a tab for junk uniques not worth trading that I use occasionally like for the prophecy to trade 5 uniques for a random unique. When my junk unique tab fills then I just vendor some.

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BleedMeAnOcean escribió:

3 - How do you know what to sell as far as gear is concerned, and how do you set up your trade tabs?

This is also going to be somewhat dependent on how many tabs you have. Pricing items for trade is fairly easy for most items. You'll be an expert in no time. I use poe.trade and the poe trade macro. I highly recommend the trade macro. Very handy with nice features like setting up mods to check for you, wiki page access, and more.
http://poe.trade/
https://github.com/PoE-TradeMacro/POE-TradeMacro

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BleedMeAnOcean escribió:

4 - For crafting, how do you go about hanging onto gear sets you'll trade for Chaos?

These are the pressing questions I have, but if you have any other advice for me (and other n00bs will benefit, I'm sure), please don't hesitate to leave them!

Looking forward to your replies.

I just keep a "check" tab. When running maps if there's an item that I think might be worth trading then I place it into the "check" tab. When the "check" tab is getting full then I go through the items in it and vendor them or put them up for trade. This is also the time that I might craft a valuable mod onto an item to increase the value before putting it up for trade.

Welcome to the PoE community. Have fun!

I thought I'd also describe the sort of funky trade interface on the premium tabs. It can be a little confusing.

You can set the tab to have all items be the same price. Set that price using the tab interface by right clicking on the tab. This will automatically build the tab name information that says how much the items in there will be listed for. You can then customize the name by adding more text after that. For example, "~b/o 4 chaos-2sring", I added the "-2sring" to the name to make it easy for me to know which tab the item is in when someone requests to buy the item. Here's where it gets a bit funky though. This will change the interface from all priced the same to be individually priced items. Ignore that change to the interface. Poe.trade will use the beginning of the tab name to set the default price for the items in that tab.

Also, the items in that tab can still have an individual price set on them. This will override the price set on the beginning of the tab name. Set the individual item price by simply right clicking on the item in a tab marked public.

In standard I have a few dozen public tabs setup for trade. So I need to customize the names to find the right tab easily. When I play in the leagues though, I'll generally just have two or three tabs marked public and will usually just use the Quad tabs for selling stuff.

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BleedMeAnOcean escribió:

1 - How do you manage items between League & Standard? In other words, what do you keep from your League tabs once it ends & your characters get bumped to standard?

You could just play until the league ends, without giving it any thought and just let the tabs transfer over as is. They then sit there as "remove only" tabs forever.

What you do now with them is up to you. I don't play Standard, ever. I just login there once in a while to clean up, by vendoring every item, no matter how valuable. The only gear I keep is what my transfered characters have equipped. I also keep div cards, essenses and maps.

Now and then I'll see a forum post from someone playing in Standard who is having a rough time and I'll offer to gift them some stuff to help them out.

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BleedMeAnOcean escribió:

2 - How do you know which uniques to keep? Do you keep them all so you can try builds in standard, or do you only keep the ones relevant to you?

Every unique I am not familiar with I lookup on Poetrade to check the low end listed price. If I see 1c, and I see 1000+ listings, I don't bother to list it. Just vendor it, as long as it does not look like something I would want to use while leveling a new character.

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BleedMeAnOcean escribió:

3 - How do you know what to sell as far as gear is concerned, and how do you set up your trade tabs?

It is a learning process that takes time and effort. Anything that looks good, and it will take a while to really know what is good, look up what it would cost to buy an equivalent item on Poetrade. If you see 1000+ listed then don't bother trying to sell it. Just vendor it.

This process is a bit more complex than you may realize. Make sure you have the UI option for "Advanced Mod Descriptions" enable. With this, pressing ALT while hovering over and item shows you the tier of each mod, the roll within the range for that tier, and how many prefixes and suffixes it has. There's a limit of 3 prefix and 3 suffix on an item.

As an example, if you find a boot with 25 Move Speed, 75 Life, and 45 fire res, you could check POE trade to see its value based on those mods only. You will find a few thousand listed with a large number of them for 1c.

However, you could craft another suffix onto it and add another resist in the range of 25% to 29% for 1 alch.

Now searching poetrade for 25 Move speed, 75 life and 70 total resitances, you find the bottom end of the listings have 1 for 1c, 2 for 2c, 1 for 3c, and then many for 4c and up.

There is a very high probability that if you add a the resist and list it for 3c it will sell fairly quick.

Is this the most efficient way to make money? For me, I don't have to actually lookup searches on poetrade because I know the market and there's no time wasted with listing items like this.

But for you to get to the point where you 'know it' at a glance, you would have to put in the time and effort to gain that knowledge.

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BleedMeAnOcean escribió:

4 - For crafting, how do you go about hanging onto gear sets you'll trade for Chaos?

I used to do this a lot. The past couple leagues I have not. Some people find it worth the time, others don't. Only way to know if it is right for you is to try it.

I recommend dedicating only 1 tab and at first just let rings, amulets and belts accumulate. Don't bother with more than 10 belts as they will pile up faster than the other 2. Once you hit 10, then drop in up to 2 or 3 of each item for other gear slots (only two-handed weapons, never save up one-handers or shields). And then cash in sets as you notice them.

Contrary to your assumption, we all have different value systems. Your stash management will be different from mine because you have different values. My values have changed over the years too. Things I used to think were worth saving are pretty much clutter at this point, and there's a ton of things I wish I had saved but didn't.

Tip: Don't get too attached to crap. It doesn't help. It's more fun to want stuff and play the game to find it than it is to have it on hand.

InB4 open beta so I have tons of gear in Standard. The best way to keep the read-only tabs from exploding way out of control is to have enough quad stash tabs so that at the end of the challenge league at 5:00 pm EST on a Monday I budget an hour of time to move all items I want to keep into a couple of quad tabs and vendor off all the rest. Then after the migration only thing left to do is move the special tabs (currency, divi-cards, maps, etc.) over to the regular tabs.

As for which items to keep? Well, new players will want to keep almost all uniques and 5L or 6L gear, etc. until you have enough of a stockpile in Standard. Then all leveling uniques are just vendored. I keep all maps, essence, divi-cards, etc (I even have a regular tab of leaguestones). As for other items such as rings, amulets, etc. there is isn't really a right or wrong way (keep or vendor). It's at your discression.

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BleedMeAnOcean escribió:

1 - How do you manage items between League & Standard?

I unify all currency, frags, div cards and maps in their tabs.
Div cards especially lead to a huge orgy of turning in all those now-completed sets, I always look forward to that.
Maps are on the annoying side, but I often vendor most of them before the league even ends, so I only have to manage a couple dozen maps.

I put the bestest stuff I got during a league into one special tab and label it with the league name, for nostalgic reasons.

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2 - How do you know which uniques to keep?

Stuff that looks busted and will probably go legacy.
Stuff I like.
Vendor all the rest.

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3 - How do you know what to sell as far as gear is concerned, and how do you set up your trade tabs?

You have to figure this out on your own.
Playing long enough, you will understand if an item has value or not.

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4 - For crafting, how do you go about hanging onto gear sets you'll trade for Chaos?

Don't understand this question.

I've only played a few leagues and more or less abandon my characters once they get to standard. So consider the source. But here's what I do...

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BleedMeAnOcean escribió:

1 - How do you manage items between League & Standard? In other words, what do you keep from your League tabs once it ends & your characters get bumped to standard?

Dump pretty much everything except currency, fragments, cards, and your more valuable items. Anything you can buy for under, say, 25c, dump it. It's harsh, but clears those stash tabs mighty fast.

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2 - How do you know which uniques to keep? Do you keep them all so you can try builds in standard, or do you only keep the ones relevant to you?

See above. If it is an easily replaceable unique, I dump it. I break the rule for one or two favourites I am loathe to part with, but other than that, vendor the bulk of it.

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3 - How do you know what to sell as far as gear is concerned, and how do you set up your trade tabs?

I'm sure I do this all wrongheaded and stupid-like, but here's what I do: I have a few tabs at a set price for the entire tab (1alch tab, 1c tab, 2c tab, etc), and then a number of tabs at a fixed price and/or negotiable price set per item. As these tabs fill up, I label them with the date (e.g.: "sale Dec. 23") and start a new one. After a week or two unsold in a dated tab, I re-evaluate my asking price for the items and usually discount them and move them to a more recent tab at the new price.

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4 - For crafting, how do you go about hanging onto gear sets you'll trade for Chaos?

Again, probably a silly way, but this is what I do: a tab or two of rare, unidentified gear laid out in roughly the same order as what it looks like when equipped (so helmets on top, body in middle, gloves lower left, boots lower right, etc etc) I pretty much ignore it until I've collected a handful of rings and amulets (being the more infrequent drops). Once I have a bit of a collection I start filling out whatever else I need for a full recipe. Once I start running higher level maps (item levels above 75) I have a separate tab for rares that are below level 75 and make sure I add one of those to my recipe, unless I want a couple of regal orbs instead of chaos ones.

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Peterlerock escribió:

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4 - For crafting, how do you go about hanging onto gear sets you'll trade for Chaos?

Don't understand this question.

They are asking about the chaos vendor recipe.