Socketables (gems/runes/jewels) and good alternate equipment (like a set with more magic find but less of some other desirable quality than your primary equipment) are the order of the day for chest storage keeping a backup supply of potions or scrolls here is a waste of space.
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Your chest should carry only things you can trade with other players for big bucks, or that you have found or traded for but can't quite use to their full potential yet. Obviously you have to have sufficient strength or dexterity to wield these items, which for casters can be problematic. If you have a totally kickass primary weapon set that your character's built around, your backup is just extra inventory put the weapon or weapon-shield combo that takes up the most space in your backup set (Tower/Gothic Shields, Long Swords, Dimensional Blades, Cutlasses, most bows, most two-handed melee weapons, and Heraldic/Aerin Shields if you happen to be a Paladin). You can equip two weapon sets and switch between them. Keep in mind, what he's equipped with will never lose durability, so ethereal gear is still good hireling equipment if the bonuses are good.Īlternate Weapon Set. Typically he should get your hand-me-downs, or any weapon better than what he carries but that you can't/won't wield. Your hireling can be equipped with a weapon, shield (if the weapon's one-handed of course), armor, helmet and boots, IIRC. Potions, gems and runes in particular can be easily lost this way. Just be careful with the Transmute button if you have just the right (or wrong) combination of items and accidentally hit that button, you lose what you had for something that may not be what you wanted. 2x2 outside space, 3x4 in (gives you three times the storage space as what it takes up).
Don't bother with a Tome of Identify (keep reading for why). Can't believe nobody has mentioned this one given your mention of scrolls. This should be your first purchase as soon as you can afford it. For two inventory slots, you can hold up to twenty Scrolls of Town Portal. Chances are there will be times when you're just plumb drained in both globes, especially if you're a "meat shield caster" like a Javazon, Hammerdin, Zealadin, or similar, where you're taking damage and spamming skills nonstop. Consider a Rejuvenation Potion column in higher difficulty levels in addition to restoring both HP and MP, they do it instantly instead of gradually increasing it. Put the biggest ones you have in the belt, biggest first (but don't waste big potions on small boo-boos if you're on the cusp HP or MP-wise between two levels of potion, one isn't enough but the next is too much, then keep a column of both). Maintain your belt storage start with a 2/2 mix of healing and mana, and if you feel you need more of one or the other, go 3/1 in the necessary direction.
Typically, the belt will auto-load as you pick up potions if you have an empty hotkey slot, the potion goes in it, and if you have empty slots above the hotkey slots, potions of the same type (not necessarily the same size) will auto-load into them. Anything that isn't a Sash or Light Belt will have 12 potion slots (3 per hotkey) and Plated Belts (and all Exceptional/Elite Belts) give you 16.
However, there are many tricks that new players don't know about:īig belt. You can't increase the size of your inventory or chest. You'll just have to learn to live with leaving some items on the ground. You can use this in a multiplayer game to ninja an important item even if your inventory is full.Įven with these minor space savers, you still won't be able to pick up everything. If you quit the game while this item is replacing your cursor, the next game you join will still have that item available to you. This works best with weapons, since you can swap to the unused weapon set, equip the item, then swap back to the weapon you actually want to use.Īnother trick is that you can open your inventory and pick up an item off the ground even if your inventory is full. You can also equip items you're not using. Try carrying the Horadric Cube with you, which has a 3x4 area inside it but only takes up a 2x2 area in your inventory. There are a few tricks you can do, however, to take creative advantage of some game mechanics. Without third party mods, there is no way to increase the size of your inventory or your stash.