Diablo 4 - Sell or Salvage your Loot? The Breakdown

#Diablo4 #Strategy #Guide

While playing through Diablo 4's endgame you come across various points with a choice to make about how to progress your character. In this video I detail the thought process behind salvaging or selling your loot instead and why to do each.

-----------

I cover Diablo 3 & Diablo 4, but also other ARPGs like Diablo 2, Last Epoch & more. For Path of Exile content, visit my 2nd Channel "wudijo PoE". Here you can find game and build guides, highlights, clips from my streams, memes and more! Hope you enjoy my content :)

If you want to support me, any of the following steps are very much appreciated:
1. Subscribe to my YouTube/Follow on Twitch & Twitter
2. Become a channel Member by clicking the "Join" button or this link (and get unique perks!):
3. Become a Twitch Subscriber (or use your monthly free Twitch Prime if you are an Amazon Prime user)
5. Like/comment/share my stuff!
6. Give me feedback how to improve!

[EllenMethr]

Pro Tip: If you are are capped at 9999 with Rawhide or Iron Chunk: just go to the Alchemist and craft Superior Leather/Silver Ore out of it, it's very cheap!

[roulettezoku]

Pro tip: before you sell all your gear check for the salvage icon in case you’re missing a transmog.

[loki]

in the beginning when you start to get legendaries and aspects. Those resources are hard to come by. Veiled crystals etc and then the crystals you get from legendaries in order to upgrade them.

[marc-andrerenaud]

The key takeaway is that until you reach level 50+ on at least one character, your main approach is to balance selling and crushing items. Once you get to 60 and aren't upgrading your gear as often and thus don't need mats that often, then move to selling most.

In my case I've got 1 lvl 54 characters that's bankrolling the 4 other classes as I get them geared and leveled to 50. It's made leveling a lot easier.

[spcbrass]

I’ve been selling the yellow gear since probably level 50 and salvaging the weak rolls of legendary gear every time. I am constantly tinkering with gear and never have issues with gold or mats for upgrades. Also I farm helltide events like it’s my job.

[IplayTeemoasaWard]

Its totally valid for people beginning to get into endgame to still save mats until they are comfortable. But I agree with Wudi, at some point you will stop changing gear every 5 minutes and when you play without using mats and constantly salvaging, you should reach a comfortable number after like 3 days already. See it like this; Mat consumption is always the same and doesnt scale higher, while with time we use the Mystic & Jeweler less and less.
All while towards endgame you will roll way more and the price keeps increasing

[etri]

Short, clear and helpful. Appreciate the info! :)

[unknownuser]

Yeah this tip is fine for some people but I have 132 baleful fragments at level 75 and it costs 12 per imprint... keep salvaging until maybe like 300 or so, I do tons of helltide and nightmare dungeon and I do not get materials as often as he is saying. Yesterday I think I got 7 baleful fragments from drops.

[TronLennonMusic]

Up until you get to wt3, you should salvage everything you're not using. Continue salvaging in wt3 on your way to wt4. Once you hit wt4, you start selling everything. Ezpz. You need the mats more than gold at first, then by the time you've got all the mats you need, you're in wt4 where everything sells for much more.

[selimword]

This is good advice for the super late game but I think you should emphasize that we need to salvage legendaries for a large portion of the game to even get the mats in the first place

[Darkendragon]

I think a better way to explain this is basically explain what material you get from each item type, then salvage until you get X amount of them, like probably 1000 of each rare material is probably a good bench mark, if you have that much then start selling instead of salvaging. you just wanna have a good amount of them to begin with and then whe you have enough, get money for them.

[marcobattistini]

Hearing him say “nine nine nine” cracked me up 🤣

[Gregair]

Good to know I’ve already been doing this but started the selling sooner. Early on, salvage everything for the transmog and some base materials. Then salvage only legendaries. Then sell everything. Gold is beyond important and can easily burn thru 30 mil in 4 re rolls.

[itsfinelp]

After too much respeccing I found myself out of the blue crafting material, but I was lucky enough to recall that you could craft them, which was very helpful.

[MrHOOCHOO]

Players to Devs: Will gold pick up be more like D2 or D3?
D4 Devs: Yes.

[beegeedot]

This is very important as I saw some other YouTuber is telling newer people to salvage items and didn’t follow up telling them how much gold they need at end game. The problem with that is they just gona stop picking up items because they have enough mats. Keep picking them up and sell them! you can maybe skip a few sacred once got to 50 mil + but i will hoard them for sure.

[lexam]

Honestly I'm selling everything just because the enchants are ridiculously overpriced

[DontNickMe]

I actually just ran out of veiled crystals from upgrading and imprinting items. I think gold, veiled crystals and forgotten souls will be main currencies needed

[stayfeetawayfromme]

It just depends on what you need

Sometimes I run out of materials for upgrades and the occultist and then I obviously salvage everything

Other times I don’t have much gold so I sell everything

[Nooctae]

I thought rerolling stats was too expensive too, but after a bit of reflexion I think it's good for the game.

I think gold having a solid use and value is gonna feel better in the long term of the game compared to D3 where you did 5 or 6 runs at the Goblin King Realm Portal stuff and had enough gold for eternity. The main limitor of rerolling became the yellow mats dropping from elites.

You could argue it's the reverse here, the mats have very little value, but gold is a better main currency for the game than a specific material.