Sometimes it's worth to pick up every yellow item

The proper analogy would be something like this:
- We can get 1kg of cheese A for 10.
- We can also get 2kg of cheese B of similar quality for the same price.
- Cheese B is a obviously a better buy for a person with no preference in the matter.
- A person that vastly prefers cheese A doesn't invalidate the verdict and should probably ignore the entire thing as completely irrelevant to his case.

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raics wrote:

The proper analogy would be something like this:
- We can get 1kg of cheese A for 10.
- We can also get 2kg of cheese B of similar quality for the same price.
- Cheese B is a obviously a better buy for a person with no preference in the matter.
- A person that vastly prefers cheese A doesn't invalidate the verdict and should probably ignore the entire thing as completely irrelevant to his case.

Precisely. This analogy suffers from only one major flaw: my imaginary counterpart in it doesn't look stupid :P

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Bars wrote:

explaining the obvious for the N-th time to people who haven't read the discussion gets tiresome :)

I guess my two disclaimers were useless, sadly! The intention was to prevent that kind of tiresomeness, but it appears they did nothing instead.

For reference, the main reason I wall'o'posted other than the fact that my eczema woke me up and I can't go back to sleep and am thus bored, yet reluctant to start up PoE in the hopes I might still be able to go back to sleep (I caved and started up PoE after posting...........), was the following snippet:

"If we interpret it as a term for subjective enjoyment, the thread would be pointless"

which lacked a [to me] or [I think] which made it sound like you were claiming subjective threads are pointless universally (in general, for all peoples).

But it sounds like you have received a fair bit of abuse in this thread, so you cannot be blamed for a single rhetorical mis-step! I continue to nominate you for forum president

That line wasn't aimed at you but it does look like it is, for which I apologise. No hard feelings :)

About pointlessness, it is a subjective term and therefore something I'm not willing to argue about :P

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Some of us like hauling in stuff to vendor for currency. Currently I pick up everything I can. Usually I use up all map portals. I like to see my pile of alks, alts, chroms etc grow. Playing for profit/hour is a sure way to burn out or get a dislike for the game.

And I'm not really sure that hauling everything out is inferior to speed grinding. I have done timed runs for both cases and the total was even or sometimes actually in favour of looting. What I did notice though is that hauling stuff out feels much more rewarding for me. Another thing I noticed is that I play way more carefully. With speedrunning after a few hours I either almost get killed or fail all the way and lose a good chunk of exp.

I pick up all the scrolls too. To each their own.

Identifying items is fun, I agree. I think the reason the vendors give you more for un-IDed item sets is because they want to identify the items for themselves.
Just like cheese; they want cheese that you haven't sampled yet. They don't really care how good it tastes, as long as you give them lots of different varieties to try for themselves.

Also, cheese is yellow, just like rare items.
Magic items are like blue cheese. Nobody likes blue cheese.
Normal items are like the moldy bit on Camembert; you can't really use it by itself but for some reason it's a pretty good base to add cheese too.
Uniques are like that really aged cheese which is supposed to taste nice but usually tastes like crap.

PS: Sometimes when you go shopping there is too much cheese to choose from. You need to make sure you have a good cheese filter or you'll end up like this.

To be fair I think people would Id this base lol but I got it from a random malachai kill while testing a respec

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Tin_Foil_Hat wrote:

The only thing that matters on a chest is high resists and life.

I couldnt disagree more, imo the only thing that rly matters on a rare chest is prefixes. I would list those chests you found for about 3 chaos early in a league and I would literally vendor them in anything approaching a gear saturated environment. Ive paid an exalt+ before for an unsocketed rare chest.








I dunno about this thread guys, I feel like theres a lot of ppl in here telling me the way to get wealthy is to not pick up items, are you guys sure youre making more wealth than ppl who pick stuff up, id it, never do unid recipes? Im not convinced.

Im not saying that the points ppl are making arnt valid, but Im saying there might be a bigger picture where really it doesnt matter all that much, its not what is making the difference between wealthy and poor people.

I dont flip items in trade, I pick up rares, I use scrolls on them and never do unid recipe, barely even do recipe at all. Surely Im extremely poor then right? Well Im far from one of the really rich people in this game, thats for sure, but Id say Im further away from being poor.

Carry on running past those 8 space, sub-optimal level, sub-optimal base items guys.

Nothing good can come of them.