What items should I keep or sell?

[Mothman]

Any tips on knowing what items I should keep or even sell? I mean if I sell an item that was unknowingly destined to be a quest then is that quest no longer applicable?

Any tips on this would be great!

Thank you

[sam_502]

Sell everything ma son, money is power

[nymneo]

Common weapons and armor are pretty safe to sell. Once the greens start dropping more and more then you probably can sell those too.

No clue if you ever need gems/ingots for anything.

[Frizbee]

Originally posted by Mothman:

Any tips on knowing what items I should keep or even sell? I mean if I sell an item that was unknowingly destined to be a quest then is that quest no longer applicable?

Any tips on this would be great!

Thank you

AFAIK Quest items are marked with an orange square around the perimeter of the icon, and can't be sold.

[HozzMidnight]

There's definitely loot you should not sell but the game gives no real indication of that.

[buttawise]

Sell the items you dont use.
Keep the items you do use.

[jasons073]

FYI, there are at least some "grey" items that shouldn't be discarded. In Act 1, there's a shaft and head of a spear that you can find. Both are grey so I initially thought they were junk and almost sold them. But you can combine them for form a unique weapon actually.

Not sure whether there are any other "grey" items that have some deeper use to them.

[BornToKill]

I just all store them and steal the things i need.

[Patriot]

Hoard everything EVERYTHING! Brain in a jar...keep it. Just in case you need it! YOU DON'T KNOW! Honestly I do keep a lot of meaningless things. I have separate chests and bags I carry around to keep things organized and then send my bag full of books I've read to the camp and I keep at least one of every weapon and armor and clothing and jewelry again in their separate containers and send them to camp. If you need to access something just pop back into camp and rummage away.

[.Master Jiren, The Strongest]

i was keeping one of each weapon type but i never ended up going back to them. honestly you'll get some great weapons early on and wont replace them until you find the pink and yellow ones (very rare and legendary) everything else is pretty expendable.

as for equipment, keep anything thats green or better because even green items can be extremely useful, like the green spider boots that make you immune to difficult terrain, thats fantastic.

i am almost done with the game and have found nothing that requires gems.
i dont even think you need to loot food.
i've been long resting after just about every single encounter. and i've been using only camp supply packs. i have bought no supplies at all. and i dont loot food or anything like that. and i still have a couple packs left despite all the long rests i take.

eventually you get to baldurs gate and you can buy camp supplies from a vendor, though i havnt done it yet so idk what it sells, i literally have no need for camp supplies and i dont think i ever will because i keep finding supply packs.

you MIGHT want to loot alcohol because later in the game you can find a gear set that empowers you while you're drunk, perfect for a barbarian or monk as they are clothing and so they dont count as armor. theres even an amulet that makes your drunken state last longer, which is good if you use the full drunkard set. so yeah, keep wine if you want to be a drunken brawler.

sometimes normal items can be combined to make special items, but honestly its pretty tedious to try and mix and match every single item in the game until you figure out the secret combination. Usually you'll find a book nearby that will tell you what to combine something with. Eventually someone will write up a guide for this.

[Jolly Devil]

Keep the stuff until you see if a companion can use it then sell it. Be sure to go to the same merchant and boost their approval. You can give them a few cheap items or like 100 gold to boost it quickly. Then just sell it all.

[Volus]

Originally posted by jasons073:

FYI, there are at least some "grey" items that shouldn't be discarded. In Act 1, there's a shaft and head of a spear that you can find. Both are grey so I initially thought they were junk and almost sold them. But you can combine them for form a unique weapon actually.

Not sure whether there are any other "grey" items that have some deeper use to them.

Sold them by mistake, went back to vendor, bought them back and hey presto...a spear that has a chance to blind, and does additional damage to creatures with that have multiple sets of eyes. Noice.

[Juanstice]

People. If you don't actually know, it's okay to not answer. The OP asked what they should do, not what you do or even for your opinion.

[Dank Sidious]

Originally posted by buttawise:

Sell the items you dont use.
Keep the items you do use.

Never works that way in RPGS.

[Jack]

Just give everything to Karlach and trow it at your enemy, repeat unless it heals them.