I have watched many streams that leave grey and white items on the floor, are they of any use? If this is in the wrong section i am sorry, i did not know where to put it.
White items are in the game probably as a clear developer message "if this white sword has better numbers than your legendary one, it's time to move on from that, pal". They're most likely there as a "baseline" reference of what's the absolute least you need to even be marginally effective at a given point in the game.
It's possible we'll have to change rare or magic items for better "white" items every now and then (if you're not getting lucky and you just spent all your gold on the auction house, so you can't get better stuff from vendors).
I'm sure a useless "white item" on Hell is better than a lot of mid-tier Nightmare legendary stuff, and I hope we keep seeing them.
They make me feel like "aw man, I got kinda lucky and got an item drop, but not lucky enough for it to be blue/yellow".
I think it depends on the act and difficulty you're in and what the sell cap is for items, like 35000 in D2 or whatever.
When I play D2 I never bother to pick up caps or weapons that are white, but armors, orbs and staffs I picked up because they usually reached the cap. I think whites will be a picky business, but those of high value will probably be picked up. Junk I'd just run past.
As a beta testing, let me share what I've noticed.
Black Items: 1-2g
White Items: 1-2g
Blue Items: 25-130g (Salvage/AH value is normally higher!)
Yellow Items: 75-250g (Salvage/AH value is normally higher!)
Average gold dropped by mobs/chests: 1-50g
Based on the above, most players find its not worth carrying around white/black and simply only pick up the blue/yellow.
Edit: The above figures for items are vendor sale prices.
Well, if you really want some cash and you don't want to sell your blues, you can pick up the white items and sell them. I don't know if the whites are worth more than the cash that is dropped but if it is then this can be a good start to get some cash flowing.
I don't even think it is worth the time to pick them up and sell them. At least in the beta, most white items sell for somewhere between 2 and 20 gold. Most monster kills will drop much more than that. Just not worth the time in my opinion.
White items are in the game probably as a clear developer message "if this white sword has better numbers than your legendary one, it's time to move on from that, pal". They're most likely there as a "baseline" reference of what's the absolute least you need to even be marginally effective at a given point in the game.
It's possible we'll have to change rare or magic items for better "white" items every now and then (if you're not getting lucky and you just spent all your gold on the auction house, so you can't get better stuff from vendors).
I'm sure a useless "white item" on Hell is better than a lot of mid-tier Nightmare legendary stuff, and I hope we keep seeing them.
They make me feel like "aw man, I got kinda lucky and got an item drop, but not lucky enough for it to be blue/yellow".
The thing is that it doesn't take any time really. I wouldn't run out of my way to pick one up but if it's right there, why not? It's still gold.
Fun little fact about white weapons in the beta...
As of the beta, "Balanced" versions of White weapons are some of the best DPS available when dual wielding. The reason being that +Decimal APS on one weapon gets applied to both weapons.
So if you have 2x "Balanced Hand Axe" each with +0.19 APS, each Axe actually gets +0.38 APS. Add the 2-4 DMG +5% APS Rings from the vendor and it's the highest DPS you can get dual wielding.
+Damage scales ridiculously well with faster APS so those rings and "Balanced" white weapons are insane. Find the fastest "Balanced" weapons you can!
Whites in d2 had some use atleast, socket them to make a nice runeword if a Dusk Shroud had close to its max def or why not an AP Eni? ^^
Those I refer to as greys, they're not whites to me.
Coz you cant use cube to make sockets?
Lol, I could actually. However, I was always lucky enough to find the right socketed item for the rune words I wanted to make. So never really had the need to use the the cube for that. Only thing I used the cube for was upgrading items, gems, runes and potions. And storing shit when I ran out of space.
In the beta you pick up whites because you don't have any gear yet
(1st play through or your doing bench marking testing for avg completion time)
Or they happen to be in den lvl 2 or skeleton king room
They can have mods (+4 max dmg, +34% dmg) if the dps is high enough they will be better then lower level blues
This could transfer through the difficulties where in a jump of item quality (from normal to nightmare) a weapon would be superior to your current blue/yellow (it probably could be figured out relatively easily by looking at what the base items the blacksmith can craft are, i just feel lazy)
In the game basically you'll pick up the first shiv you see take a look at it and if it happens to be better use it until you get your first blue shiv.
The only reason you would sell whites is because you happened to be at a vendor anyway, and right clicking is faster then clicking dragging off your inventory and dropping them on the ground. The gold isn't worth going to a vendor you wouldn't have gone to normally. I personally tend to drop them while running, or wait until its time to check the ring vendor.
i find them worth picking up for selling in the beta anyway for upgrading ur blacksmith. Ive been getting about 10k picking up all whites blues and gold i find just dont waste time picking up the low quality and broken crap
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Though this leaves much room for interpretation (? o.O) I take it to mean no, you won't want to pick them up :3
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It's possible we'll have to change rare or magic items for better "white" items every now and then (if you're not getting lucky and you just spent all your gold on the auction house, so you can't get better stuff from vendors).
I'm sure a useless "white item" on Hell is better than a lot of mid-tier Nightmare legendary stuff, and I hope we keep seeing them.
They make me feel like "aw man, I got kinda lucky and got an item drop, but not lucky enough for it to be blue/yellow".
When I play D2 I never bother to pick up caps or weapons that are white, but armors, orbs and staffs I picked up because they usually reached the cap. I think whites will be a picky business, but those of high value will probably be picked up. Junk I'd just run past.
Black Items: 1-2g
White Items: 1-2g
Blue Items: 25-130g (Salvage/AH value is normally higher!)
Yellow Items: 75-250g (Salvage/AH value is normally higher!)
Average gold dropped by mobs/chests: 1-50g
Based on the above, most players find its not worth carrying around white/black and simply only pick up the blue/yellow.
Edit: The above figures for items are vendor sale prices.
I don't even think it is worth the time to pick them up and sell them. At least in the beta, most white items sell for somewhere between 2 and 20 gold. Most monster kills will drop much more than that. Just not worth the time in my opinion.
Those I refer to as greys, they're not whites to me.
this
The thing is that it doesn't take any time really. I wouldn't run out of my way to pick one up but if it's right there, why not? It's still gold.
Fun little fact about white weapons in the beta...
As of the beta, "Balanced" versions of White weapons are some of the best DPS available when dual wielding. The reason being that +Decimal APS on one weapon gets applied to both weapons.
So if you have 2x "Balanced Hand Axe" each with +0.19 APS, each Axe actually gets +0.38 APS. Add the 2-4 DMG +5% APS Rings from the vendor and it's the highest DPS you can get dual wielding.
+Damage scales ridiculously well with faster APS so those rings and "Balanced" white weapons are insane. Find the fastest "Balanced" weapons you can!
Lol, I could actually. However, I was always lucky enough to find the right socketed item for the rune words I wanted to make. So never really had the need to use the the cube for that. Only thing I used the cube for was upgrading items, gems, runes and potions. And storing shit when I ran out of space.
(1st play through or your doing bench marking testing for avg completion time)
Or they happen to be in den lvl 2 or skeleton king room
They can have mods (+4 max dmg, +34% dmg) if the dps is high enough they will be better then lower level blues
This could transfer through the difficulties where in a jump of item quality (from normal to nightmare) a weapon would be superior to your current blue/yellow (it probably could be figured out relatively easily by looking at what the base items the blacksmith can craft are, i just feel lazy)
In the game basically you'll pick up the first shiv you see take a look at it and if it happens to be better use it until you get your first blue shiv.
The only reason you would sell whites is because you happened to be at a vendor anyway, and right clicking is faster then clicking dragging off your inventory and dropping them on the ground. The gold isn't worth going to a vendor you wouldn't have gone to normally. I personally tend to drop them while running, or wait until its time to check the ring vendor.