Keep old equipment?

[NoonyCurt]

I'm at boss level 88 right now and finishing up my equipment from High Security Base.

I've kept my maxed out equipment from the Forest and The Sky so far, but is that useful? Will I ever need it again or can I just delete it to make better use of my inventory space?

[Fel]

You can just delete them for the most part.
The basic rule of thumb is that armour and weapon slots are only useful if they are the best you have (with some exceptions when they have a special bonus that is fairly rare).
For accessories it's a bit different, you will want to keep the ones that can be upgraded (forest pendant and looty mostly) as well as the top 2-3 for each of the bonuses that are not about energy or magic.
The exception to that "top 2-3" are mainly the ones affecting yggdrasil, you want to keep all of them but that's not something you will get for a while anyway.

If for some reason you need a drop from an earlier zone later on, it will be significantly easier to just go back and farm that zone for it since your stats will allow you to have a much higher drop chance on top of destroying enemies many times faster, resulting in a rain of loot coming in very quickly.

[NoonyCurt]

Thanks!

[Nyu]

i still have all my sets in the inventory, cause autismus
and its mostly useless as hell and just waisting space

[Hypertext Eye]

Originally posted by Fel:

The basic rule of thumb is that armour and weapon slots are only useful if they are the best you have (with some exceptions when they have a special bonus that is fairly rare).

Early in the game, yes. Later, not so much.

[scott.bland]

There are a lot of things to keep if you want to build efficient sets for specific loadouts later in the game, especially when you hit Sadistic and need to squeeze out every bit of numbers you can.

At the very least you want to hold on to things that give you a bonus to gold drops, quest drops, respawn timer, seed gain, Yggdrasil yield, etc. You should also keep around any looty / pendant maxed to 100 starting at Emperor Looty and Ascended Ascended Ascended Pendant for the gold / quest / drop bonuses.