Thanks @Charlatan. So many tabs, so little money… :)
Romalar
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Yeah, currency, map, and some premium/quad tabs are the “essential” ones IMO, but others are nice. I think I have and extensively use one of each special tab except the uniques, plus a number of premium and quad tabs.
I didn’t care for the fragment one for a while. However, as they’ve added more stuff in core leagues it became rather nice to have. Keeping track of all the 4-piece map fragments, betrayal scarabs, legion splinters, and breach stones is just annoying when you’re immersed in the end-game. Now of course they need to do something about the blight oils and catalysts. I’m glad at least the metamorph eyes have the 3-1 recipe now so you don’t need to accumulate them at all.
With a lot of this stuff, if you use a strict loot filter and dump items you don’t intend to use soon or won’t sell for much, you probably don’t need most of these types of tabs, maybe just the currency one and a premium/quad for selling as you guys mentioned. However, it seems like most people that this kind of loot game appeals to just don’t want to operate that way and have a bit of the packrat mentality at least in game.
I’m a bit of a packrat so it pains me to leave stuff on the floor and move on. I’ll be getting some tabs while they are on sale.
As I understand it, any tabs with loot at the end of Metamorph will become “remove only” tabs in Standard. Any tabs I buy now will be available in Standard to use as well. So, for example, currency in my Metamorph tab that moves to Standard can just be moved to the regular Currency tab in Standard once Metamorph ends. Is that right?
Correct. Here is some of my tabs in the standard league. I clean up the easy ones (currency, essences, divination cards, and maps) every so often but only rarely clean up the others.
Bobtree
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I think if you have an empty stash tab of the same type in Standard, the contents of a league tab will be deposited there instead of becoming a remove-only tab, so don’t leave your Standard tabs empty if you want to play Standard in the future. Also, buying a new tab will convert a remove-only tab of the same type in Standard into a regular tab, rather than giving you a new empty tab.
I’m confused. I have two very low level characters in Standard now that I did not bother checking before starting Metamorph. Are you saying if there are empty tabs in Standard now that I will lose them when the league ends when my remove only tabs are ported to Standard?
No, here’s what I believe he is saying: suppose you have three tabs in standard, three green tabs. Two of them have junk in them and one of them is empty. Now you play in Metamorph and you end up with three green tabs full of junk there. When Metamotph ends, the three league tabs will migrate to standard but since you have an empty tab of the same type… a green tab …one of the green Metamorph tabs will have its contents dumped into your regular green tab. So you will end up with five tabs in regular… Three of them green tabs like you had before and two Metamorph remove-only green tabs.
You never lose tabs in standard, you just get remove-only tabs added when leagues end (and when you buy tabs they are added to all of your different leagues as you purchase them… So if you buy a currency tab it will show up in standard, and metamorph, and hard-core…).
@Charlatan So you are saying that one of the Metamorph tabs that would have been remove-only when it got transferred will instead fill up an empty usable green Standard tab and that tab will be usable rather than remove-only?
Right now I only have one of my four green tabs in Standard with anything in it. The other three are empty. So if I have three tabs of stuff coming over from Metamorph then I will end up with four green tabs as I have now and none of them will be remove-only if I follow you.
Edit - Based on what @Bobtree said then I should put one item in each of my empty Standard tabs so none of them get filled with Metamorph stuff and then they all just come over as 3 new remove-only.
I think that is correct. But it’s sort of a weird edge case IMHO since eventually all your standard tabs will be full!
I guess you can do that but my main goal is always to get rid of those remove-only tabs… though I guess in a sense they are “free extra tabs” since they will never go away. But yeah, if this is how it works, if you want to preserve your free space in Standard you should put one item in each tab.
OK, thanks guys. I guess it’s just GGG wanting me to buy 10 more tabs and then I don’t have to worry about it! LOL
Settled back in at home enough to spend some time depopulating some maps tonight! Good luck charm from @Zephyr in place:
Finally found my first Lich in an Underground Sea map. Those prior-league boss fights seem awfully easy now! Really drives home how much power increases each league.
Also found an unkillable (at least by me) enemy in that same map. Had the Rival Exile prophecy, who turned out to be that blooddrinker guy with massive AoE and life leech. Which would have been fine by itself, but he also got Soul Eater and there were plenty of other mobs nearby for him to eat. By the time I realized what was going on, he’d gotten so big and fast that nothing my minions could do was going to dent him. Died a couple of times, but eventually I got lucky and was able to run past him far enough to finish out the map.
Also, thanks @Romalar for the info about atlas and watchstones above. I never even thought to look at the tooltips over the boxes until I read your notes.
On the chance there’s someone playing an archer, I put a 21/23 Vaal Rain of Arrows in the guild stash.
Where is the best place to farm gear while leveling? I’m level 65 currently and almost all my gear is at least 10 levels below that. I don’t seem to ever get any good gear drops while questing. My resists are all capped and I’m not dying to trash mobs, only to a metamorph occasionally so it’s not a crisis. I’m just wondering if I’m missing something in the game that I should be doing to get better gear. Thanks.
Edit - I only have about a dozen Chaos Orbs and don’t want to spend them on leveling gear in trade.
Not really. If you don’t want to trade, then the best option is to just push onward and get into maps. At that point the gear drops do improve, but more importantly you get a lot more currency, and trading becomes a lot less of a concern to your bank account.
Bobtree
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Act 9 Blood Aqueduct is popular because it’s very linear and can drop Humility cards, act 10 Reliquary is the highest level area before maps, and the third Labyrinth is easier to do before having your resists lowered by finishing Act 10.
That said, I don’t bother, except for getting flasks with fire res & burn immunity and maybe completing a level-up before fighting Kitava. You are better off pushing into higher level maps as soon as you’re able to, provided you have enough life and resists. The new atlas kind of screws this up, keeping you in white maps for a long time, but maybe progress will be faster next time.
The level of your gear only determines what tiers of mods it can roll, and the level required is a side effect of the mods it has. Getting good mods and stats matters a lot more than the levels. It’s very common for new players to be held back by using too many uniques because most don’t give Life/ES and resists. I tend to do this too, having a large pool of uniques after my league starter, but it’s bad to stick with them, and removing non-essential uniques is usually beneficial.
ZeTh1
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Just spend some alchs and 2-3 chaos for some 65+ items, they should be quite cheap. Spending a few chaos does not affect your wealth in the long term.
