After ~450 hours in the game, I realized something that I’d been wanting was in the game the whole time, just not explicitly: a way to put your items into “folders”.

I often wondered what the purpose was of placing empty backpacks and pouches throughout the game and making them show up in the alt-view. I figured they had items in them at different difficulties or previous versions, or they were simply there for aesthetics (I think most likely option). It only just occurred to me that I could pick them up and store items in them to sort out my stupid long inventory lists.

Gale has a backpack with all his little scrolls. Lae’zel has a backpack that somehow holds 20 daggers, 12 javelins and a spear. And astarion has a pouch with with enough magical arrows to make the Fat Man look like a firecracker. Now the stuff I actually plan on using is much easier to find.

  • espiritu_p
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    27 months ago

    I pick up every piece of junk I can find.

    To keep order in my invetory i drag everything I don’t wanna keep into backpacks.
    When reaching a trader I just have to sell the full backpack instead of dragging and dropping every single item into the trading panel.

    much faster.

      • @[email protected]
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        47 months ago

        Wait. You can do that?!?!?! Wares isn’t just a marker for making merch easy to spot in the chest?

      • espiritu_p
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        17 months ago

        Thanks. Will try that.
        I thought, “wares” was just a marker but the junk will stay in your inventory as before.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          37 months ago

          It will stay in your inventory with a marker and when you reach a trader there is a “add wares to offer” button. Just found this a couple weeks ago myself

          • espiritu_p
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            17 months ago

            I’ve seen the option too. Mybe I even tried it. I’m not sure.
            But if they stay in inventory they will still clog it. If there was an option to hide items marked as wares, this would help.

            • @[email protected]OP
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              27 months ago

              If there was an option to hide items marked as wares, this would help.

              See above 😉 I do wish there was an option to filter out wares though. Also beware I believe that the “add wares to offer” button does not pull items that are stored in other containers. I’d have to experiment with it more to give a definitive answer but I know that alchemy ingredients in your alchemy pouch do not get added automatically

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                7 months ago

                So it wound be an option to mark the items as wares, and then move them to a backpack?
                Then I could keep the backpack in case I am short of containers.

                I still think my method is the more elegant way :)

                • @[email protected]
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                  17 months ago

                  Because I don’t want to worry about finding a new backpack every time I just have everyone have 2 backpacks for selling items, then just before I sell I go to everyone’s backpacks and just mark everything as wares. Although, honestly I started doing it because I wasn’t positive that it was giving me the price for the items in the pack and not just the pack itself early on. It’s routine now.