Looting syndrome

[ColaBB]

Something like that, how do you guys figure out in games like these what to take and what not? As long as inventory and weight allows I take all but I know times will come that I'm too stuffed and then the follow up question comes: How do I know what I can just sell/drop or might be useful needed even?

[Piperbird]

Take everything. When it gets too heavy, send it to camp.

[Yankee Axe]

Originally posted by Piperbird:

Take everything. When it gets too heavy, send it to camp.

yup take errything

[Sentient_Toaster]

It's mostly about how much you care re: tedium. I wouldn't want to bother taking *everything* since random crap items might really not be worth the bother, and unless you insist on collecting every single purchasable item or you burn through scrolls/potions like crazy there's a lot of money and a lot of found gear to use in the endgame... like, even if you have almost every recruitable companion you can pretty much keep them all in decent gear.

So, prioritize individually valuable items or stackable items to reduce clicks. Like, there's not really much point spending your time grabbing individual pieces of non-magical studded leather that won't sell for much and won't stack. Gold and silver ingots stack and are decently valuable; silver trays stack; gems are high value for the cost; etc.

Other bits -- food and alcohol pretty much goes straight to camp, alchemy ingredients are always worth taking, and you can hoard smokepowder barrels like a madman for the days you really want to use a dozen or two of them.

[marionette]

Decide on a value-to-weight ratio and don't bother with anything below that (unless it's a magic item). Start with something lower in the early game so you can build up a bit of money, but increase it over time or you'll end up carting around useless weight and spending more time traveling between shops than adventuring.

[Heu, Iterum Id Feci]

As a certified lootgoblin I can tell you the only way is to leave nothing behind. If it can be looted it has to be looted. Everything else is not satisfying.
And the more there is to loot, the better the game is.

[maestro]

Originally posted by ColaBB:

Something like that, how do you guys figure out in games like these what to take and what not? As long as inventory and weight allows I take all but I know times will come that I'm too stuffed and then the follow up question comes: How do I know what I can just sell/drop or might be useful needed even?

Usually by looking at the value. All of those cups, bones, etc that are worth <5g? Probably just leave it.

But that sword that's worth 30? yeah sure I'll take that.

Until I have thousands to my name, then eh, probably don't need to take every little thing.

Also, weight vs value. This is a lesson hard-learned in Bethesda games. You can only carry about 200lbs and you don't want to do the whole 1:1 thing where you pick up something that gives 1 gold per 1lb. That's just a huge waste of time.

Maybe go give Skyrim a play and that might give you practice on better looting strategy, or teach it to you if you never played a Bethesda game before.

[Ironwu]

Here are my personal rules for vendoring items:

* I pick up / send to camp any vendor trash item worth 10g or more. Rest I leave.

* After I have equivalent or better gear for everyone, I will also vendor all +1 and +2 items that have no traits on them.

* If I have items that have traits for a class I am SURE I am not playing this run through, I will vendor those as well.

* I save the vendor Trade/Barter sessions until I level up and then visit all the vendors and sell everything. Buy stuff they have that I need. Than sell more of my vendor trash.

Your camp Adventure Chest(s) can hold all the items you collect. The vendors also keep everything you sell, so you can return any time and buy it back if a mistake was made.

Good Luck

[BellatorMonk]

I love RPG games and despite all the claims of how woke this is (I'm not seeing it yet, even though I am only barely through Chapt 2 or so?) this is by far the best one I have seen in decades.
That being said, I cannot stand games that force you to loot everything to sell for gold/money. I cannot stand spending that extra 10 mins per room, dungeon etc trying to scrape up that extra 500-1k gold worth of junk.
I prefer to add a mod that increase quest reward payouts or the prices of less common items like gems etc so I can actually make use of my IRL time playing...not looting so that I can buy that nice gear or what not.

[NONAME]

Don't take anything except very expensive stuff, ammo and healing kits.

The game isn't challenging anyways, you can kill everyone with you bare hands.

[Hawke]

If something is not highlighted, like the Restoration Pods or that device in the Arcane Tower, I probably don't need it.
The main quest items and most of good equipment are either looted from bodies or vendors. Though, there are few exceptions (some Radiant gloves in the Shadow-Cursed Lands).

[Super Cosmic Space Magnet]

If the game let me dismantle buildings plank by plank, I'd do it. I'd return the entirety of Baldurs Gate to grassy fields by selling every brick of every house. I'd sell the merchants' own stores to them - I'd sell the NPCs. When nothing at all of the game is left but me and the trader, I would then sell myself.

I would then pickpocket it all back and complain that the game's economy was imbalanced.

[Husker_85]

I try to have a slightly more immersive approach to looting. So I take jewelry, gems, silver, etc. And I also of course take any magic weapons or armor. I do not take all the non-magic weapons and armor on the ground, holding up the entire group so I can make my 5th trip to town this session. I've played with people who have a loot problem and it sucks; we end up spending all our time waiting around for them to finish selling their ♥♥♥♥. These people also almost never use right-click -> add to wares so when they do get to a vendor they have to sell their loot one piece at a time.

[kbiz]

I typically take every crumb until I get enough gold. Just occasionally dump everything at a merchant.

Send to Camp is great for heavy items (like barrels), most heavy food, magic items you keep thinking maybe someone will use later, and used quest items. I also send extra potions (above a certain amount) to camp.

Later in the game I'm much more picky about what I'll pick up - almost to the point I don't pick up anything. Marginal gold has little value when you're already loaded.

Don't discount Elixirs of Giant Strength. Not only do they give attack and dmg bonuses and increase jump distances, they allow you to carry a ton of junk.

[thufirhawat333]

I once found a bone and 3 pieces of gold in a vase. I regret nothing.

[ColaBB]

Wow, that's a lot of responses, thanks everyone, some good tips.