Inventory....I need a darn garage sale!

prethen

I'm curious to find out how you guys manage your inventory and what your advice is to do with mine. So, I have a bunch of questions around this (btw, I'm a Control Wizard/70/11K):

I have various bags to hold a bunch o' stuff and they're pretty much all stuffed. Even the handful of slots in my guild storage are all taken. I gotta bail on some stuff. I'm guessing I'm holding onto things I really shouldn't care about.

* I don't know why I have attachment to the original Barovia Vistani stuff, since I've replaced most of it with Primal gear. I guess I should sell that stuff...I don't think there's anything else I can do with it since it was bound to my character?
* I have various shards that I've been accumulating, but not enough to turn into anything. They're taking a bunch of room. Are there particular shards I should hang onto. I guess I could donate them to the guild.
* I have four items for collecting elemental motes. I've never collected a single mote. Any reason to hang onto these.
* I have a bunch of Account bound items that seem pretty cool, but I don't really think I need them now. I can't donate them to the guild bank nor can I auction them (I hate that part). Sell/refine them?

callumf

I know your pain.

Want to clear out stuff but scared of throwing something awesome away..

Sell or refine as much as you can.

Its hard at first selling a +5 ring that 2 years ago you would be drooling over or an artifact that would have suited you back then.

But with powercreep and crafted stuff at Item Level 500+ and Artifacts cheap as chips not much point in keeping old stuff

nunya

prethen said:

* I have four items for collecting elemental motes. I've never collected a single mote. Any reason to hang onto these.

Absolutely not. Discard these post-haste! If you ever decide you want these weapons (and I can't imagine you would), you can get them from a masterwork crafter (or the auction house). Besides, actually collecting those motes is an exercise in frustration. I should know. I've done it - twice. No, it was not worth the effort.

kemnimtarkas

prethen said:

I'm curious to find out how you guys manage your inventory and what your advice is to do with mine. So, I have a bunch of questions around this (btw, I'm a Control Wizard/70/11K):

I have various bags to hold a bunch o' stuff and they're pretty much all stuffed. Even the handful of slots in my guild storage are all taken. I gotta bail on some stuff. I'm guessing I'm holding onto things I really shouldn't care about.


* I have a bunch of Account bound items that seem pretty cool, but I don't really think I need them now. I can't donate them to the guild bank nor can I auction them (I hate that part). Sell/refine them?

I have 2 alts who are nothing but pack mules. I intentionally left them at level 5, so I don't feel the need to invoke on them. I leave them in PE, usually in the invoke circle or lounging over near the Reward Claims agent area. I store all of my stuff with them. Unused artifacts, high level enchants, companions, companion gear, etc.

If/when I win or earn a Runic bag from my guild, I give it to one of the pack mules. This works for me.

prethen

Hmmmm....didn't think of getting an alt to use as a pack mule. I might have to look into that at some time. But, I'm happy to hear that there's a bunch of stuff I can just unload that I've just been hanging onto.

How about all those different types of shards where you need 9 to do anything and even then it's expensive since you need one of those special wards?

nunya

prethen said:

Hmmmm....didn't think of getting an alt to use as a pack mule. I might have to look into that at some time. But, I'm happy to hear that there's a bunch of stuff I can just unload that I've just been hanging onto.

How about all those different types of shards where you need 9 to do anything and even then it's expensive since you need one of those special wards?

I would just convert them to refinement points, honestly. It's far, far, far cheaper to just buy an enchantment from the auction house than to convert those shards into an enchantment. The only way this wouldn't be true is if you're willing to roll the dice without using a preservation or coalescent ward and you don't care how long it takes you to finally convert those shards into an enchantment. (A failure will consume 9 of the shards.)

pitmonster

If I can sell it in the auction house, I typically do unless its something rare or I think will increase in value. If I need it later, I just buy it again. Sure, it costs a few extra AD but I just look at that as storage fee.

But yeah, create mules. Buying extra toon slots is cheaper then buying bags.

prethen

So, at the risk of appearing dumb.....how do you know if something is particularly rare or valuable...is there a simple way to tell by looking at the item characteristics?

eion311

My bag/bank is basically full of old armor sets I don't want to part with in case I want to switch looks. If this game ever had an armor transmog type system where once you have a piece of armor if "saves" that look so you can use it at any time...….I would have so much room haha.

plasticbat

I am a hoarder. I am not a collector but just a lazy person who does not want to bother to make decision, to sell, to dump, to ...
I have a lot of mule character and I lose count of them. Each one is kind of dedicating to certain type of stuff such as Artifact, mount, enchantment, transmute (I never do transmute by the way), companion, lockbox, ...
My mute are usually level 4. I have stack and stack and stack and ... of bound/unbound RP. Stack and stack of enchantment and some of them are actually only r4. That can tell when I started to be a hoarder. Too lazy to sell them.

I kind of stopping adding mule character especially after they added the barrier when you first reach PE (which is not a real PE anymore). There is a way to skip it because I have VIP. Anyway, I start to clean up a bit when my mule are kind filling up now.

darkheart

> @prethen said:
> So, at the risk of appearing dumb.....how do you know if something is particularly rare or valuable...is there a simple way to tell by looking at the item characteristics?

Look in AH for things like artifacts, mounts and enchants. Hate to say that most of the stuff you get from dungeon boxes are going to be cheap due to re-roll tokens.

frogwalloper

It's the interesting looking gear from leveling quests that I can't bring myself to get rid of - got lots of that for each character.
My mailbox is one letter short of red lining with all the stuff I've stored in there. It's a clonkier version of shared bank slots.
Would definitely sell if you can.

sandukutupu

I pretty sure you don't want to throw away; promissory notes, Vistani bad luck charms, and Makos Signet Ring. Those will be used when they give us the duct tape!

But seriously, I own 4 guilds and use the 150K & 300K bank panes to store many of my items. A bank guild is cheap and easy to make, the only rule is; you cannot store bound items. Each pane has 48 slots and the first will cost 150K AD. I don't see a benefit to go beyond 2 panes.

plasticbat

sandukutupu said:

I pretty sure you don't want to throw away; promissory notes, Vistani bad luck charms, and Makos Signet Ring. Those will be used when they give us the duct tape!

For sure not Makos Signet Ring which is so important to me that I forced 4 toons to do just enough SKT to get it.

silvershard

prethen said:

So, at the risk of appearing dumb.....how do you know if something is particularly rare or valuable...is there a simple way to tell by looking at the item characteristics?

First and simplest way is to check on the AH for how much other people are willing to pay for it.
If there are 400+ listed and the Buyout price is 1100AD then you probably don't need to hang on to yours if space is an issue, since you'll probably be able to replace it easily at a later time.
If, however, the thing you have has 28 listed and the lowest price is, say, 650'000 AD then it is probably worth asking someone in your guild/alliance WHY it's so desirable. If its something that your character can use, based on class/paragon then its up to you what to do with it. If it's a Healer specific artefact, and you are a DPS Rogue, and have no intention of playing a Healer, sell it.
If you can't find anyone in game to ask, come here and someone will be able to tell you.

I would always check before binding a valuable item just because the tooltip says "Recommended" cos that's not always the case. (I've often equipped items with a lower IL because an Equip power is a better option than the Stats of a higher IL item.)

I've been playing over 4 years and I still come back to ask questions.

callumf

darkheart#6758 said:

> @prethen said:

> So, at the risk of appearing dumb.....how do you know if something is particularly rare or valuable...is there a simple way to tell by looking at the item characteristics?



Look in AH for things like artifacts, mounts and enchants. Hate to say that most of the stuff you get from dungeon boxes are going to be cheap due to re-roll tokens.

Quoted for truth. Really due to re-rolls loads of artifact and other stuff is under 1000AD now. As above check Auction House for anything you find - easily the best way to determine whether to sell or not.