Stash Management Tips?
" 1. I dont even got to standard. I got many pages just remove only. No clue what I got over there. 2. 99.99% of all uniques are trash. You will know if its worth keeping or not. Its not really worth clogging up your stash with leveling uniques and all that junk because you can probably just rebuy it for 1 alch or 1 c or an alt or something. So thats just not worth spending time fooling with in your inventory. 3. Trade. I suck at trade, but I can give some advice for a fellow noob trader. Make one page, you put stuff on that you think is worth something that you havent looked up yet. Make it public. If someone goes out of their way to message you for something on that page, its probably worth a good bit. People hate non-buyout items, and anyone messaging you is trying to scam/low-ball/get a deal on whatever that is. So when they message you, then you can look the item up and see what its actually worth, or have a ballpark estimate. Its not a surefire way to sell everything, but it will help you some. Also, I have never sold that item to the first person messaging me. They always offer like 10% of what its worth. Just when they message, I know its worth a good bit. Next, if you got enough pages, set them up with prices. 15c,10c,5c,4,3, etc. However you wanna do it. When you look the item up, or have a ballpark guess, just start high, put it on the 15c page or whatever, and then move it down through the pages until it sells. When it gets down to 1c, hasnt sold, probably not worth worrying about. Just junk it. Much easier than worrying about each individual item on a page, and constantly changing all their prices. I'm a very lazy trader. I dont like looking up items, I dont like checking all the prices. I generally play with a friend who just gives me a ballpark estimate of what he thinks, and I throw it on a page slightly higher, and start moving it down until it sells. Sometimes you get lucky and sell it for more than it was listed, sometimes you move it down to way below the other listings and someone finally buys it. In the end, a sold item is better than nothing. Again, there are people here who are way, way better at pricing, eyeballing, and trading than I am. My advice is probably garbage. Its just advice for people who dont know prices, like me, who dont like trading, like me, and who are lazy and wanna play the game, like me. 4. Honestly, trading items for chaos only seems good at the start of the league. Its such a massive time investment, sorting all that crap, and when exalts get to 130-150c+, it really loses it value. Just chain vendoring everything for alt shards and alch shards is probably not far off from an actual chaos in value, and its 100x faster and less time consuming. Chaos recipes are something I would do at the very beginning of the league, when exalts are still cheap. |
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" One exception would be if you play SSF. The recipe is needed to keep up with zana mods cost when mapping. |
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Chaos recipe is needed if you spend chaos on your mapping. If you don't, then it starts losing it's value. If you're using Zana Mods, it's almost essential in SSF play.
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" He mentioned trading. I dont think hes playing SSF. Of course currency is at a premium and exalt costs are meaningless in SSF. But in a normal league where an exalt is 130+ chaos, fiddling around with recipes are pointless in my opinion. Especially when if you just vendored all the junk, it might even be close to a full chaos worth of alch/alt anyways and 100x faster. |
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" Good morning. 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? I only have the stash tabs i know i need, and i have them organized accordingly to my needs. Dump Stash - It's a quad stash that i use to quickly 'dump' the items i find while mapping. Say i plan to do 50 maps for the day, well at the end of that mapping session, i clean the stash out, i identify all the items, put them in the appropriate stash, and so on. Preparation - it's where i prepare the maps i want to do for the day. After i craft them to my liking, they sit there and i pick 5 maps at a time in my character inventory. Currency - where i store all my currency. Map Stash - where i store the maps. Sales - i use this particular stash tab to sell items. Divination Cards - where i store the divination cards i pick up. This is a normal premium stash tab because i have no need for a divination stash tab, there's a large portion of them that i don't pick up, and a normal premium stash is more than enough to store all the divination cards i pick up. Gems - where i store gems with 10% Quality or above. Once it fills up, i vendor them all for Gemcutter's Prism currency. Projects/Builds - this is where i store various items i plan to test, it's not a stash tab i use for one purpose. Random - And neither is this one. As far as managing items between leagues and Standard, once the temporary league ends, if i have a character that was transferred to Standard, i simply remove all the items from the remove-only tabs. Once they're empty, they are deleted. As for advice regarding the management of stash tabs - Don't get more stash tabs than you need. How would you know how many you need? Well, first of all, you don't buy them all at once; you buy the ones that you figure out would help with micro managing and improve your overall play time. Secondly, once you actually figure out that say, for example, your little "system" of organizing the currency you collect is frustrating and time consuming, you eventually realize that a Currency Stash Tab would significantly reduce that frustration because of its function; you don't have to sort out anything, you simply 'dump' the currency there, and it's done. 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? I vendor most of all the uniques because they're a good alchemy source. I know what items to keep because i've learned what uniques are valuable and what uniques are worthless to waste stash space on. If i have no knowledge pertaining a unique, i get my information from poe.trade or pathofexile.com/trade. 3 - How do you know what to sell as far as gear is concerned, and how do you set up your trade tabs? I have one general Sales that that fits my needs. As stated above, if i don't know the value of an item, i check the trade sites. 4 - For crafting, how do you go about hanging onto gear sets you'll trade for Chaos? I don't, i think it's a waste of time, but i can see its purpose while leveling. |
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" 1- I don't particulary sort out stash at the league's end since i won't go in standard anytime soon, and will eventualy sort out everything if have to, one day, and find good surprises doing that. 2- You keep the uniques that have a lot of chance to be destroyed by a further patch :D 3- Everything you need personaly for general progression and building, can be needed by another player. I would start with this approach. Second approach, most of players run a build they havn't made themselves, item prices are mostly influenced by popularity going with the sheep game ( not meant to offence anybody it's just the way it work ) and availability in a league. Knowing these two approach, it will take you ten min to start finding items that has value :) Hf :)
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These answers are amazing! Thanks so much for your help. Advice from seasoned players is always appreciated when it comes to things like this.
For those of you who don't save gear sets to vendor for Chaos... I bow to thee. Haha. I'm not sure I'd even have currency if I didn't! (Thanks for the tips on making it less frustrating, too.) For those of you who allow tabs to sit untouched in SL indefinitely... my personality would never allow such a thing. I have to stay organized. Must. Always. Also.... I'm a she. :D I know, I know. Girls don't play video games. Just as well since I'm a middle-aged woman and not a girl. |
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" 1. I'm a hoarder. I have approx. 40 tabs, and I fill 25-30 of them, and then they rot in Standard, cause i don't play Standard. Can't even bring myself to clean the Standard stash, it's full of crap, and I have 0 patience. Yeah, being a hoarder sucks. 2. I keep all Uniques I find, any duplicates I either ignore/vendor/or go for the mysterious treasure prophecy. Again, hoarder..... 3. I only play SSF, can't say anything about trade. 4. I gave up on the Chaos recipe quite a few leagues ago, too much of a hassle. So that being said, my advice is: try not to become a hoarder. Only keep what you need for your char, or the really good items that you might use on alts (again, don't go hoarder, or you'll regret it) Also, if you plan on playing in Standard later, clear you stash before the current league merges with Standard, easier this way. This way you'll get a clean neat stash that won't need much fiddling with in the sea of other stash tabs in Standard. |
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Started to clear 10's of tabs of uniques.
Will do 1 tab a day to keep mentally sane. Also instead of hoarding em, will PC at the end of the day and vendor or put in shop. No more collecting 100's of uni. Did give me 10alch for 2screens. Good value Vorici can shove his fuse up his [removed]
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" Well, the key is to get more maps done in the time it takes to sort, file, and vendor all that junk for chaos recipes. If you run one more map and an exalt drops that you wouldn't have gotten, you erased 130 chaos recipes in one go. Even something like a Divine for 10c, or items, or anything really. All that extra time adds up to cut more drops out of your play-time for the day. Your time spent actually killing things and getting drops outweighs the time spent on that recipe. Especially when the items vendored normally probably equal at least an alch worth of value; half a chaos. And even a chaos could and probably will, fall in the extra map you get to do. But keep doing them until you feel comfortable to stop. Just try to make it as efficient as possible. I've tried a bunch of different ways. The fastest I probably did chaos recipes is having a quad tab, and just dump that junk on the quad tab and turn it in for recipes when you need some downtime from mapping. Everyone gets bored of chaining maps nonstop, and during that downtime you can just make recipes from all the trash you dumped on the quad tab. Other tabs work ok but they fill up so fast when you start dumping armors, etc on them. A quad can hold a ton of junk. Its probably one of the better tab purchases I've made. I use mine as just a dump page for everything while mapping/delving and sort it later. |
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