Take everything to sell

[Rossoni]

Is it worth taking everything to sell? I think this is slowing down my game and progression, I literally don't let a single spoon or bowl escape, so I can get it to sell.

[Ironwu]

There are lots of ways to gather Gold in BG3. Selling loots is one of them. :)

Keep and eye out for BIS rare items on vendors before you engage in combat. The prices are up there, but they are worth it.

So, yes. It is one way to gather Gold and thus if that is how you like to do it, certainly worth doing. :)

For myself, I only gather items that are worth 10g or more. I leave the low-rent items behind. That's still a lot of loots to sell!

[Orion Invictus]

Yes. In a playthrough where I didn't loot stuff to sell, I found myself running low on money.

You can probably leave the 1 gold stuff behind, though.

[seeker1]

The only problem you'll run into is being a loot goblin for the heaviest stuff, which will start to overcome your encumbrance. You might WANNA drag around those 20 suits of chain mail you found, but you are not Hercules and can't tote them around. You can spread those around to your high-STR characters in party, but ultimately, yeah, it's gonna be a problem toting around tons of suits or armor even spreading them around the party.

... at some point you're gonna need to send them to camp chest, OR drop them, you just can't carry around everything you find once it starts to encumber you. This of course also goes for barrels, which people love for barrelmancy. Well, yeah, and barrels weigh a lot. As do human bodies and corpses.

[Ironwu]

Originally posted by seeker1:

The only problem you'll run into is being a loot goblin for the heaviest stuff, which will start to overcome your encumbrance. You might WANNA drag around those 20 suits of chain mail you found, but you are not Hercules and can't tote them around. You can spread those around to your high-STR characters in party, but ultimately, yeah, it's gonna be a problem toting around tons of suits or armor even spreading them around the party.

... at some point you're gonna need to send them to camp chest, OR drop them, you just can't carry around everything you find once it starts to encumber you. This of course also goes for barrels, which people love for barrelmancy. Well, yeah, and barrels weigh a lot. As do human bodies and corpses.

'Send to Camp' is exactly what I do. Then, when it is time to sell, I just park at the vendor, travel to camp, load up, exit back. Sell, buy, sell some more. Then move on to the next vendor if necessary. Easy. :)

I also send and store ALL my Foods and Alchemy mats at Camp and that keeps the carry weight down significantly.

[seeker1]

I did notice in my first playthrough - and it caught me by surprise - oh yeah, that Camp Supplies sack can get start to get REALLY heavy, once it contains 800 bananas, and bottles of booze, and ham hocks, and whatever else is in there.

Your natural tendency is to have Tav tote all the Camp Supplies. Resist it, spread those around other party members. It's why they all have Camp Supplies sacks, too.

[ahsanford]

Acts I and II: If it's not bolted to the wall or listed as red for stealing, pick it up and sell it.

Act I: Gold in the first two acts isn't hard to come by, but you have a lot of inventory slot mouths to feed across all your companions. Getting everyone the best AC armor for their class + proficiencies + DEX and maximum damage weapons for their 'best proficient' weapon type greatly helps your playthrough, and there isn't all that much of that dropping out in the wild from levels 1-3 or so. You'll find plenty of gear *eventually*, but waiting until L4 to finally find a specific type of +1 great weapon out there could just have been bought at L2 or L3.

Act II: You're pretty well geared at this point, but some 'playthrough transformational' magic items are sold in stores. While they aren't cheap, they are totally worth it. You can steal them I guess, but hoarding gold for the *six* different Act II stores is a wise call. Since folks tend to go nuts and spend right when finding each store (3 fairly early, 3 maybe mid-way), you tend to go from 6-7k gold to 1-2k gold in a jiffy, and then playing the rest of Act II you steamroll back up to 6-10k by the end.

Act III: You're rich to start the act and it only grows. I generally stop hoarding and only keep heavier/pricier armor and magical items/weapons for sale. Even with only that, my gold hit astronomical 5 figure levels and I never really thought about gold again. (Relax and explore without any major imperative to hoard.)

- A

[ahsanford]

Originally posted by Ironwu:

'Send to Camp' is exactly what I do. Then, when it is time to sell, I just park at the vendor, travel to camp, load up, exit back. Sell, buy, sell some more. Then move on to the next vendor if necessary. Easy. :)

I also send and store ALL my Foods and Alchemy mats at Camp and that keeps the carry weight down significantly.

This is the way. Must do this. It's been like this for 7-8 (EA + release) playthroughs for me.

But 'easy' isn't what I'd call it, lol. It's death by a billion clicks. Huge QoL improvement opportunity for Larian here with future updates:

Send content of entire container to camp (rather than one at a time)
Sell directly from camp storage in the vendor screen
Etc. Etc.

- A

[skOsH♥]

I grab the high value items that are good items, and use those until they aren't effective anymore. I will keep three pairs of relatively effective leveled pairs of armor so that I can switch them in a hurry for better stats if a party member needs one

I'm wondering how much ultra rare stuff is pickpocketable? Like, have all the files of all the items been pooled to see what the absolute best stuff is? I wonder if Larian are the type to just sneak new items in

[Ozius]

My first play-through I grabbed everything and sold most of it, finished the game with 60k+ gold and barely spent it on anything.

Due to this, I'd say don't bother except in early game when cash is low.

[ahsanford]

Originally posted by d¢:

I grab the high value items that are good items, and use those until they aren't effective anymore. I will keep three pairs of relatively effective leveled pairs of armor so that I can switch them in a hurry for better stats if a party member needs one

I'm wondering how much ultra rare stuff is pickpocketable? Like, have all the files of all the items been pooled to see what the absolute best stuff is? I wonder if Larian are the type to just sneak new items in

Stores are absolutely pickpocketable, and in Acts II and III some of that loot is devastatingly good -- on par with endgame best items.

- A

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Rossoni:

Take everything to sell
Is it worth taking everything to sell? I think this is slowing down my game and progression, I literally don't let a single spoon or bowl escape, so I can get it to sell.

Absolutely not.

[Hobocop]

Originally posted by ahsanford:

Send content of entire container to camp (rather than one at a time)
Sell directly from camp storage in the vendor screen
Etc. Etc.

You can already effectively do this with shift-click and ctrl-click.

There is also no reason whatsoever to keep camp supplies on your person since you can use them straight from camp storage while resting, even prior to Hotfix 16.

[ahsanford]

Originally posted by Hobocop:

Originally posted by ahsanford:

Send content of entire container to camp (rather than one at a time)
Sell directly from camp storage in the vendor screen
Etc. Etc.

You can already effectively do this with shift-click and ctrl-click.

Works for emptying chests, yes, but a single button that dumps all to camp is simply more efficient.

Shift/ctrl-click is also futzy to do with camp inventory because you can't maximize containers with lots of stuff in them. Yet another QoL thing to add to the list.

- A

[Ozius]

I will say I do love looting peoples silverware, they have very good sale value to weight ratio but I only tend to bother now when there's a bunch of stuff in a small area.

[ahsanford]

Originally posted by Ozius:

I will say I do love looting peoples silverware, they have very good sale value to weight ratio but I only tend to bother now when there's a bunch of stuff in a small area.

A group stuff on ground 'area-grab-all' would be VERY nice, especially for dinner tables -- it's death by a billion clicks, people.

(I ask you: Does Mario have to click on all the coins while he's exploring, people?)

- A