Scroll of wisdom

[p6kocka]

I am failry new in this game. Lvl 8. Is there any way to buy or craft the Scroll of Wisdom? Or is it possibly to find it as loot only pls? Thank you

[Holy Fool Sehrael]

You can sell almost everything for Wisdom scraps, but they usually drop very frequently.

[Taiji]

Vendor 1 Blacksmith's Whetstone for 4 Scroll of Wisdom.
- A full stack of 20 gives you 80 wisdom scrolls.

[The_Driver]

I recommend selling Orbs of Transmutes for Wisdom Scrolls. It's 4:1, so rather efficient and they don't have much use lateron compared to their abundance.

Also consider that not every item you find is worth identifying.

[Scarsick]

Do not vendor Transmutes for scrolls if you're new. You have blacksmith's whetstones and Armorer Scraps for that. Keep the transmutes, because they are useful early on to buy stuff from vendor and basic crafting.

Later on you can trade transmutes for scrolls.

[Holy Fool Sehrael]

Huh, I didn't know that the scraps and stones can be used for that. Good to know!

[p6kocka]

I am still in the first levels. Guess I have to wait till I arrive these areas

[Tozo]

You dont have to identify every single item you find. Its sometimes even better to vendor unidentiefied items. Check the vendor recipes before vendoring, you can store certain "sets" and vendor them instead of vendoring every single one alone.

[Kayarath]

Portal scrolls can also be exchanged for wisdom scrolls, but be sure to have about 10 (ish) portal scrolls on you for basic use.

[p6kocka]

Thank you all for your answers...

[St3amfails]

by the time you reach about level 30 you will have more scrolls than you can ever use without buying any if you arent using them pointlessly. yes identified stuff vends for more than unidentified, but vendoring garbage during the acts is a waste of time. A single modded map will drop more currency in 5 minutes than the first 3 acts combined.

On your first runthrough its hard to wrap your head around, but picking up loot other than what u can directly use is actually costing you currency, not the other way around.
Get a loot filter,( filterblade is what i use), and only bother with vendors when the story progression puts you where they are.
For example, by the time im done with the acts I will have sold to vendors only 16 times, never identifying anything that wasnt possibly going to be equipped.
Then you get to the point where vendor recipe gives chaos for unidentified...

[desrtfox071]

Originally posted by St3amfails:

by the time you reach about level 30 you will have more scrolls than you can ever use without buying any if you arent using them pointlessly. yes identified stuff vends for more than unidentified, but vendoring garbage during the acts is a waste of time. A single modded map will drop more currency in 5 minutes than the first 3 acts combined.

On your first runthrough its hard to wrap your head around, but picking up loot other than what u can directly use is actually costing you currency, not the other way around.
Get a loot filter,( filterblade is what i use), and only bother with vendors when the story progression puts you where they are.
For example, by the time im done with the acts I will have sold to vendors only 16 times, never identifying anything that wasnt possibly going to be equipped.
Then you get to the point where vendor recipe gives chaos for unidentified...

^This. I, like many before and after me, started in POE and collected nearly everything I saw for "future use, or other characters". It turns out that this is nearly entirely unnecessary. Unless you are grabbing unique items, you're probably wasting your time. You "other characters" will find just as much vendor trash as your first character (in reality, even more because you'll be a better player) except in POE the vendor trash isn't so much vendor trash as just trash. Leave it. If it isn't unique, or you are going to use it right now - it's almost something that you'd be better off just leaving. At a certain point, you'll learn about more sophisticated vendor recipes, etc. and then, if you want to, you can keep items specifically for that purpose, but even some of that is of dubious value.

[Scarsick]

Originally posted by St3amfails:

by the time you reach about level 30 you will have more scrolls than you can ever use without buying any if you arent using them pointlessly. yes identified stuff vends for more than unidentified, but vendoring garbage during the acts is a waste of time. A single modded map will drop more currency in 5 minutes than the first 3 acts combined.

Except it will take quite some time until a new player get to maps. You're using the mentality of someone who's on their second/third char in the league, have a full leveling gear set and can ignore every single drop that is not valuable during the acts.

On a new player/league starter scenario there's no reason not to identify magic and rare stuff, keep what is useful for your char, vendor the rest. After act 1 you can pretty much ignore magic and just pick up rares. I personally ignore stuff that takes too much space like armor/2H weapons/shields. If it's something that may be useful I just id on the spot and drop it if it's not. Take all the small rare, id and vendor/keep next time I'm in a town. It takes what, 20, 30 seconds to identify/vendor a full inventory?

[St3amfails]

i mean, to each his own scarsick, but even on league start if its not something i may want right now it feels like a waste of time and time is money. I agree with you on the armor/weapons/shields, and i suppose i cant argue that picking up all belts rings amulets is probably okay if you are really dead set on vendoring, if for no other reason than good resistance rolls can be really useful (though how many do you get at lvl 20) and u can carry a lot.

As for identing or even picking up magic stuff...just y man. it costs you more to identify than u gain from it (though I realize u said only act 1)

Its not the 30 secs to sell thats the killer. its not even the pick up and identify time, though thats bad. its the fact that i have to stop moving and have a cleared spot to do it.

I know a noob player (no offense meant we were all there) tends to clear entire areas but that to is a waste of time and part of the reason it takes so long on first play through.
The acts are far better off simply run through as fast as you can move, with only minor attention paid to what drops. you dont need the xp and actively looting during them, even on league start, just isnt worth the time.
First run, you are going to wander a little finding where you need to go, which will provide some backtracking and looting time in itself but im gonna stick with my 16 vendor runs as a legit target, with an actual practice number of say twice that first time.
Now i fully admit, rushing first runs of games isnt ideal if there is a meaningful story or interesting characters etc, but this isnt that game. this is just mindless murder for profit, which means maximizing said profit is the only real consideration.