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Stefan Roth wrote::
> "Hansjoerg Malthaner" <hansjoerg.malthaner@nurfuerspam.de> wrote in message
> news:d54v7p$i7r$1@domitilla.aioe.org...
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>it seems all my characters end up with at least 50% of their inventory
>>filled by charms. I'm wondering if this is a lot compared to other
>>players?
>
> Mine are usually full, except one 2*4 field. horadric cube is in stash.
What do you do if you find more than a few good items during a game?
(E.g. things that are handy to other chars of you, but can't be muled
away in this game, becuase it is publie or the mule can't enter the
difficulty level).
>>Also, while going through the charms, I see that some must've been there
>>for ages. Is a +10 life large charm sensible if the caharacter already
>>has 600 life, or should I remove it to get more inventory space?
>
> that +10 life large charm at 600 life i would drop, regardless of
> richness/poorness. i'd keep life charms with at least +10 per field. of
> course at the beginning of a new char i keep all of them.
I've now handed those charms to my lower level characters. There they
add a noticeable amount of life, at 600 life total the difference wasn't
really noticieable.
>>Is a +3% cold resist small charm sensible on a lvl 79 character that
>>doesn't have maxed resitences in hell?
>
> as long as you dont find any better, yes.
Ok, so I keep it. I'm pretty new in hell (only two characters there) and
still trying to get used to it.
>>I don't know where to make the cut. All the modifiers are helpful, more
>>or less. I tried to seriously sort out the useless, but with only 3x4
>>squares left, boss runs to collect items don't make a lot of sense. Also
>>my stash tends to be filled with stuff so I can even temporarily put the
>>charms in the stash before I go item hunting ...
>
> hm, i dont do much boss runs anymore, maybe that's why im having no problem
>
> and if i did, i wouldnt find anything
I'm a fairly new player, so I don't have a lot of items yet. Almost all
good things are gifts from friends and helpful players.
Currently I'm trying to get my own stuff, and boss runs seems to be a
proper approach (I don't run the big bosses in hell, just some of the
minor uniques with fixed locations, like shenk, eldritch, bone ash, fire
eye, corpsefire, rakanishu and whoever crosses my path to them, also
visiting the the pit in act 1. Results are mixed, but it's a easy tour,
so I do it fairly often ).
>>Any advices for a packrat like me to solve the problem?
>
> i decided to stop creating mules. actually, i'm in the process of deleting
> mules.
How many mules would you recommend? I'm currently having three, two
tightly packed mixed purpose mules, and a new one for gems and runes
which slowly pile up.
> go through them and throw away everything which is there for longer than 2
> months, except the REAL precious items
Hehe
I'm just playing online for two months, so this threshold won't kick in
so soon.
> it's crazy, i noticed one mule with 8 tal masks on it lately, and still i
> keep to pick them up.
Don't tell they drop so often. Although I got one, too.
> well, tals mask is one of my favouites merc helmet.
I gave it to my merc, too. (I hate the looks of tals set, so my sorceres
will get other equipment).
> but since you can buy each of those items for 1-2 pgems, why keep them
> yourself ? let others do the muling
The only items that I have multiple times are those actually in use by
my characters. I store only one of each type, if I store them.
> unless you only have zod runes and botd on your mules of course.
Maybe in a few years
My highets self found rune so far is a Dol, and the only runeword that I
made is ancients pledge, more or less just to try it once.
>>I'd like to expand my question: what things do you really keep? Amulets,
>>rings, jewels, gems, runes, armor, weapons ... I see some players don't
>>even bother to pick up jewels?
>
> still picking up blue amuletts, and mostly keeping 3+ skill tree. or 2+skill
> +stuff.
> socketing stuff, full elite sets and one sigon.
> uniques like arreats, titans, bartucs i keep some, who knows...
I almost think you play a different game. But ... I found two +3 skills
amulets, but for characters I don't play, and one +2 skills for a
bowazon that is almost retired. Titans, indeed dropped once.
All of those I consider extremely lucky finds so far, and don't expect
to get them regularly.
> 2 mules for runes, 2 mules for pgems. that should be it.
Hmmm, that's more than I have so far
>>I lost a lot of runes during an muling attempt yesterday, but this
>>solves the problem only temporarily
>
> hehe
No high runes lost, so not really troublesome. But I also lost a +1
paladin skills amulet, which bugs me a bit. I don't find +skills too
often, so I consider them valuable.
That's been the second time in 8 weeks that I lost items due to a game
crash. Not that that'd be frequently but it gives me some fear that it
could happen when I try to mule some of the really valuable stuff ...
probably I'll only do that if friends hold the things while I change chars.
> Stefan
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c.u. Hajo
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