inventory blues : Best Practices

Inventory management is always a pain for me. I thought it would be helpful to discuss it a bit. I am wondering what other people's inventory practices are. In this game, many decisions are easy, but not all, for instance...

grey or white items... salvage

salvage items ... salvage (duh)

crafting resources go in the awesome collectible bank. Being able to right-click to deposit the collectible from anywhere in the world fills me with joy.

blue items and above
A trickier one for me is blue items (and I assume this will be an issue with greens as well):

Generally I have been salvaging them. But, many just become wood which is pretty boring and plentiful and wood is very cheap on the Trading Post.

Sometimes I will combine some at the mystic forge to see what I can get. By the way: Anyone know if that works based on your level or the level of the items you put in?

I could theoretically sell them on the Trading Post for a few copper because I am broke, but seems like maybe is missed opportunity.

I dunno. There may be other things I am unaware of.

What do you do? and why? :) (please discuss)

p.s. I wish I understood the Mystic Forge better.

p.s. I wish I understood the Mystic Forge better.

Can't help you there buddy....I don't know anymore then you do about the Mystic Forge.

However, I sell blues and most greens to vendors...because when I do cross references between vendors and the Trading Post I find the variance to only be a few copper (generally speaking). However, I check all greens with vendors 1st, write down the amount for each on paper then run to the trading post and see what I can get there...so I bounce between each to maximize the $ for greens. I stopped salvaging most blues a long time ago and just sell them to vendors...because the market is already flooded with that same item or the mat created from them which makes getting a really good price for anything a tedious chore.

Hope that helped. :)

At first i salvaged all blues and whites. I assumed i needed to do that to be able to craft. When i started crafting i noticed that the materials i was lacking (claws, scales, bone chips, venom sacs, totems, vials of blood) didn't come from salvage. When the trading post finally worked i noticed that ore, wood, ... isn't very expensive but the materials i am lacking are expensive.

So now i only salvage items marked as salvage. Greens, blues and whites are mostly vendor trash. I need the money to buy the rare materials on the AH. Before vendoring off a green i check the AH price. In the AH window you can see the vendor price when you hover over the item, so you don't need to write things down. The AH is available everywhere, so you only need to run to a trading post agent to pick up money or an item.

Because of the sales tax, the lowest selling price needs to be at least 15% higher than the vendor price to put it on offer at the AH. Otherwise you get more money by selling it to a vendor. Vendors are everywhere, you can even sell at a completed heart or a repair point.

Oddly enough almost all blue and green drops are sold on the AH for 1 copper more than their vendor price. This is the cheapest price at which you can put something on offer at the AH. That's a 15% loss to avoid having to run to a vendor. Most of the time hundreds of the same item are on offer a this vendor price plus one copper. So even if you put it on offer, i don't know if it would actually sell. The listing fee for unsold items is still 5%.

The crafted items on the other hand seem to be more rare. I've managed to sell several of them on the AH for a little more than the vendor price. Only a little more though. Crafting is and always will be a money drain. I like being able to craft my own gear though. Someone in guild chat showed me what my armour would look like if i got my crafting up to date. It looks better than the drops i'm wearing.

I don't know how the mystic forge works either. I put in some greens i couldn't use and got out a new green i couldn't use. Maybe the green i got was better than the greens i put in, i don't know. So i put the one i got from the forge in the guild bank, maybe it will be useful to someone else.

Quote by nniicc

In the AH window you can see the vendor price when you hover over the item, so you don't need to write things down.

God bless you...I didn't see that thanks for this time-saving tidbit. :)

Thanks so much... that was all very helpful!!!

I now have space in my bank again! (I had even plugged down $7.50 for an extra set of slots :blush: )

So many runes in my bank, I should just sell them..

Quote by RodgerPM

So many runes in my bank, I should just sell them..

Ditto!

I wish I had a better idea of how the mystic forge works. :\