Loot Order and Throw Away Priority

[Ittrix]

So I'm getting into making some serious money with an antiquarian group. As I get tons of stuff though, I find myself chucking out common trinkets, gemstones, supply items, and journal snippets as I go.

So I'm curious. As far as picking up loot goes, what do you prioritize having? And as far as throwing away loot goes, what do you ditch? More specifically,

Given a choice between

• Gold
  
• Citrine, Jade, Onyx, Emerald, Sapphire, Ruby
  
• Puzzling Trapezohedron
  
• Minor Antique, Rare Antique, Jute Tapestry,
  
• Crests, Busts, Portraits, Deeds
  
• Trinkets by rarity (Very Common, Common, Uncommon, Rare, etc.)
  
• Food, Shovel, Antivenom, Bandage, Medicinal Herbs, Skeleton Key, Holy Water, Laudanum,
• Torch, Firewood, Dog Treats, The Blood

Which of these items would you prioritize having in your inventory, and which would you ditch first to make room?
IE: Is a Sapphire better to have than gold in an antiquarian group? Or is gold better because you likely won't get enough sapphires to make up the cost?

[RopeDrink]

Honestly, there's no one-track answer. There's enough variables for it to not be the same formula every time. At best, having a set formula will simply save you time (which could be spent completing the dungeon and moving on to another mission for more gold).

I don't think about it too much because gold is infinite and easily accessible.

This also doesn't account for Antiquarian stacking. Gold will always be near the top when you can stack it to 4k or 4.5k per pile.

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- Gold

- Antiques

- Tap/Trap

- Trinkets (Rarity/Variable) - eg. trinkets of above-common rarity can be worth more than most gems, and so on.

- The Blood (if infected) followed by Shovels, Food, and zone-specific provisions. Torches are important, but it's easy to stretch them out and gauge when you can safely discard them.

- Gems (Rarity/Variable) - starting from highest to lowest, keeping in mind that lower gems are usually easier to stack, so it's a balancing act. You might get 4x250g gems, or 1x1000g gem. Throwing away a Topaz for a 1k gem might be followed by looting 5 more Topaz, and you not having space.

- Heirlooms - whichever I want more of. If I must throw them away but want to keep some, I focus on the 12-stack regulars and just trade them at the Hamlet, even if the others are technically more valuable.

- Other provisions.

- Treats. It's nice to save these for when you can capitalize best, but mostly, you're better off just using them and hoarding valuables.

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[No One]

Food, Shovel, Antivenom, Bandage, Medicinal Herbs, Skeleton Key, Holy Water, Laudanum,

Only keep food and shovel, or key if I'm likely to get a secret room.

If I'm doing ATQ run I will always huck heirlooms in favour of gold.
If not, then it depends what I want more of. Usually heirlooms, since they can be used for cost upgrades, but it's not like I'm going to toss a full gold stack for one crest.

I always use my dog treats in my first two fights, or I'll end up promptly throwing them out.

I'll usually keep blood to avoid having to farm blood later.

I'll only keep a trinket if I have nothing better to do or it's trinket I'm fishing for.

[Gilmoy]

Early in a run, before you get Long missions (at region mastery L3?), there's less loot to throw out, so you can keep most of it.

I prioritize every heirloom I find. On Short and Mediums, I haven't dropped an heirloom yet.

Gold and equivalents (gems, tapestries, antiques, trinkets) I keep by total slot value.
That means I'll keep whichever one I think will end up with higher value.

I'll drop onyx for gold because 1 full slot of gold is worth more than 3 onyx, and you are unlikely to find 4. I've dropped 1 sapphire for 200 gold before because I expect to easily fill up that gold slot, but I never expect a 2nd sapphire.

I'll fill 1 slot with 5 rare antiques. I would seriously consider tossing a 6th, because I'm not likely to find 8-10 of them make that 2nd slot worthwhile.

1 Trapezohedron or 1 tapestry is more more value per slot than gold or a stack of gems.
A trinket I can't use, or is too weak to be in the rotation I do use, is just gold. Commons and uncommons aren't worth a full slot of gold, so drop them for gold, keep them if you haven't found better.

As for supplies, I play each run in two phases.
1. On the way in, I leave curios unopened. I keep supplies, so I have no room yet.
2. On the way out, I collect those curios, and I know exactly which supplies I need.
I drop the rest.

The first things I drop are low-value gems.
Later, I drop supply items, and common trinkets.

Long missions change the math. You will regularly find 30+ slots worth of loot, keep 16, and ignore the rest.

For role-playing reasons, I geas myself to carry out every single journal page ASAP, and also every Shieldbreaker dream trinket and Aegis scale. I would drop trapezohedrons and portraits to carry 4 journal pages out (but I've never had to). After the first 20 weeks of that, you collect the full set of journal pages, and never see another one, except for Shieldbreaker's dream pages. There's no reward in terms of loot or power for this, so it's a commitment you make for non-metatary reasons.