I still seem to have a lot of problems deciding on what exactly is a good piece of rare equipment to keep in order to sell on the AH & what should I just automatically vendor/salvage within the game, & thus I have three almost full tabs on my stash & nine almost completely full mule characters–& I'm still accumulating more junk. :-0
For weapons, I've started automatically getting rid of anything one-handed with DPS below 500 (regardless of stats), and ditto for anything two-handed with DPS below 1000 (again, almost regardless of stats). For shields, anything with a block percentage below 16% gets sold off immediately. However, it's stuff like helms, chest pieces, gloves, boots, amulets, shoulders, rings, etc. that I can almost never decide whether it's worthwhile to keep or not.
Does anyone have some good criteria for just getting rid of other items based on (for e.g.) armor value, or ilvl, or something else? Looking for a quick & easy way to just go through & thin out my stashes & mules characters.
Thanks in advance.
Best Answer
By and large most items you pick up are going to be junk, but whether you should keep or sell them comes down to a few simple criteria, in my experience.
If you've decided to vendor a rare, then one thing I suggest you also consider is salvaging it, if it will produce inferno quality crafting materials and it's sell value is less than the auction house price for those materials (right now that's about 1,000 gold) Though you won't immediately gain from this, it will make crafting more attractive to you later on if you don't outright sell your materials for profit.
As a personal guideline I do the following:
TL;DR Turn your approach around. Assume everything is getting vendored/salvaged unless it makes a good case for staying.