Gear - what to pick up

Hi all,

I would like to ask about how to pick up gear. As there is a lot of trash:

What should I focus on? For now, I am just picking up Rare, Quality and sockets items.

Are there any filtres or guide what would help me? My class is Sorc.

Thank you.

That's a difficult question to answer since it fully depends on what you need for your character(s) and the what game mode you play at. SSF or trade. In general, the better your equipment, the less items you might want to pick up.

As for lootfilters I would recommend neversink https://www.filterblade.xyz/?game=Poe2

This lootfilter is one of the staples in PoE for many years now. It offers different strictness files. I download all of them as a zip and modify them as needed for my needs. But in general they are good the way they are. You can choose between Soft, Regular, Semi-Strict, Strict, Very Strict, Uber Strict and Uber Plus Strict. The stricter, the less items are displayed.

You can also use them while leveling since area level is also taken into account. Early on in a new league I usually use Regular or Semi-Strict and the further I get in the game, the stricter I pick. But even then I don't pick up everything shown. At some point I hide everything I don't want to pick up. But I do this manually by modifying the file.

As for what items you should pick up depends on your situation. Since I don't sell items, I only pick up items where I could potentially get an upgrade. The better my equipment the less I pick up and therefor hide more.

If you want to sell items you might want to pick up more. But I can't tell you what since I am not experienced with what items are worth something. Maybe someone else could help you here.

For Sorc I personally would focus on rare Energy Shield bases. If you are eraly on in game and have a very bad item in a few slots you might want to pick up magic bases for these slots as well, Augment them and check if they have two useful affixes. If so maybe use a Regal Orb on it. If you hit a third useful affix you can decide if this is likely an upgrade for you if you use Exalts on it or if the affix tiers are too low for it to be an upgrade.

But like stated before, it all depends on your situation, on what stage of the game your are in and how you improve items (crafting, trading).

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Gear - what to pick up?

Second.

Avaricta gave some generalizations and examples, but I would like to specify;

In Standard trade league when trying to build wealth, what items should I be picking up and what items should I be leaving on the ground in the name of speed?

*CONTEXT* I never played PoE1 and am learning the economy for the first time.

I am currently running T15 maps trying to progress to the point where I can just farm simulacrum, breachstone and pinnacle bosses. I still need to build a fair bit of wealth to afford the gear necessary to do that, however. Right now like Reve216 I am picking up all rares, quality items and socketed items but it feels like I have to go back to my hideout every 45 seconds to disenchant and fill my stash. Should I just be IDing the rares throwing trash ones on the ground, relying on the other wealth I pickup to be able to trade for regal shards?

I have been keeping an eye out for any white top tier expert chest armours (anything with a built in implicit) and been rolling them with orbs of transmutation, then if the first stat is kino adding an augmentation and if again kino a regal. Rarely do I get 3 kino stats doing this but when I do I slam it with exalts and try to sell it. I am doing the same process with bows and sceptres as I play a ranger and which, but I don't feel comfortable doing this for other weapon or shield classes as I'm not sure what I'm looking for. As well I only feel comfortable crafting jewellery to sell for the classes I'm playing as I'm not certain what other classes would need. While this strategy seemed good on paper, I'm not sure it is building my wealth as intended. Am I wasting my time doing this? Are there obvious weapon or jewellery items I should be targeting? Should I just be running through maps, picking up only currency and higher tier rares? What is the best strategy to build my wealth?