RoS Prep - What Should We Keep?

[Flashpoint]

I've been on hiatus for a little while now, but with the release of RoS around the corner, I'm trying to clean out all the unnecessary items from my stash/characters. There have been discussions regarding how "pointless" it is to keep gems for the transition to RoS, and how current weapons will be "worthless", but I'm curious to know what's actually worth keeping. Now, obviously I won't be selling off my current set, as I will need it to smash on monsters, but I do have a stockpile of decent-to-great legendary items and crafting materials (unloaded my gems already).

Bottom line, is it worth it to keep crafting mats because of 10 to 1 trade up, or is selling them off the way to go? What gear is actually worth holding on to for the purpose of upgrading? Or, is it still too early into the beta to tell one way or another? Thanks!

 

[ADest]

First thing to save is your money; don't bother buying the expansion. lol.
Don't sell off your gems. By now you probably have thousands of them, and Blizzard might be lowering the cost of crafting them because of the removal of the AH, so you can probably make a couple of marquise out of them for maybe a few thousand gold.

 

[saint_of_killers]

First thing to save is your money; don't bother buying the expansion. lol.

i chuckled a bit... b/c it's probably true.

 

[HardRock]

The cost of crafting gems has been lowered a lot already. Thing is though, in RoS when you reach level 61 Marquise gems will start dropping from enemies, so they are actually completely worthless for people who have the expansion. Even more so, because at Expert difficulty or higher Imperial gems drop as well. If they still worth something on the live servers then I think you should sell them as soon as possible.

The same is true for crafting materials as well. The current ones are useful only up to level 60, so if you will buy the expansion I'd sell them as well.

Out of the existing currencies the only one that will still hold value in RoS above level 70 is gold, primarily because of Enchanting.

 

[ematanis]

Gems + Crafting material = Sell asap , don't keep anything.

Items : Well any of the items that are out of the ordinary and have unique stats for their slots could be useful after rerolling one of the stats.(Lacuni , Witching Hour , Inna Pants , Mempo) but keep in mind what you have to enchant and how good it will be after enchanting.
If you get for example normal Inna Pants with 90 vit and 90 dex , then you reroll the dex then you will end up with most likely a bad item , but the best Inna Pants will be the one with double vit roll 190+ vit and you can reroll dex.
Also if the item can have Life% like witching hour then try to get hold of that with max Life% and high Attack Speed and Crit Damage.
So on , certain weapons might be unique aswell (Chantodo's Wand for APoC , Echoing Fury for +APS , Good Skorn with high Weapon damage% and 190%+ crit damage with high main stat and vit will be valuable I think for crusaders).

But keep one thing in mind before you spend any gold , these items will be replaced sooner or later depending on how you play , if you play 10 hours a day then mostly within a month you will replace everything , they are only good until you start getting some of the level 70 legendaries with special affixes.

Also try to save up some Gold for Enchanting , don't spend everything on items that will be replaced sooner or later.

 

[Wolfpaq777]

Keep your infernal crafting mats... no reason to sell those. You'll need them if you plan to do any crafting from levels 1-69. Remember auction house is gone now so if you want to level a crusader you'll be entirely dependent on drops for upgrades. Having some inferno mats can help ease some of that pain.

 

[Flashpoint]

Thing is though, in RoS when you reach level 61 Marquise gems will start dropping from enemies, so they are actually completely worthless for people who have the expansion. Even more so, because at Expert difficulty or higher Imperial gems drop as well. If they still worth something on the live servers then I think you should sell them as soon as possible.

As soon as I read that marquise gems were the base gem drop in the expansion, I sold off most of the high level gems I had. Surprisingly, they sold very fast.

Thanks for all the feedback!

 

[RazeBarb]

Sell gems, all of them.
I sold all my gems and put Flawless Square in my sockets for until the expansion hits.

Basically, the only thing worth carrying over is Gold (for enchanting). I've collected 300m and should be good to go, but more can never hurt.
Oh yeah, and most people try to get as many paragon 100 before RoS/the patch. Your account-wide paragon xp will get summed up to your new paragon level. I'm going to start out with Paragon 200

 

[HardRock]

Keep your infernal crafting mats... no reason to sell those. You'll need them if you plan to do any crafting from levels 1-69.

Aren't current materials only useful for level 1-60 crafting?

Remember auction house is gone now so if you want to level a crusader you'll be entirely dependent on drops for upgrades. Having some inferno mats can help ease some of that pain.

This is true, although in my experience drops are good enough so that you can level fairly easily on Hard or Expert, even with a completely new account (zero gold, untrained artisans, no high level gems). If you want to craft one or two things (usually weapons) then you'll have enough mats for that just from drops as well. I think it's best to use the AH to get as much gold for its endgame benefits (Enchanting) while you still can.

 

[RazeBarb]

On that note: Keep your Cain's Set or buy a cheap one while you still can.
Ofc you only need it if you want to level the Crusader ASAP to 70.