[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

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Rush042 wrote:

I had a question regarding how you map, specifically. I'm finding that even in blue maps, I'm often using all 6 portals, and spending a TON of my time in my hideout IDing and checking for relatively decent pieces to pawn off for a chaos or two each. Do you pick up every single rare just for the alt shard/chance at something decent (unid Chaos Recipes are heavily gated by jewelery for me), or do you find yourself only picking up the small stuff, and the time spent IDing gets smaller as you get more used to quickly assessing items?

Stash organization

Stash organization is also a huge key in making trips faster.



It's hard to see the tab names here because I'm pulling this from the browser but I'll explain.

The first tab is a run tab. I run a map, I do my vendor trip, I ctrl-click everything over. There's slots for pretty much every orb type except divines and exalts.

When those alts/jews/gcp/chance slots etc are full, I move them to the second tab, named simply "$"

That tab is organized in rows: 2 rows of augs, 1 row of alts, 1 row of chromes, 1 row of chaos, 1 row of vaals, 1 row of jewellers, 1 row of fuse, 1 row of scours, 1 row of chance. Then bigger, more rare currency, is bottom right (exalts, regrets, divines, regals).

Further down my stash is the "Reserve-XYZ" tabs section. When a row from the $ tab is filled, I move it there, or spend time in trade converting. One of the two.

As you can see, I have tabs immediately after that are also yellow: those are unid, and id chaos recipe tabs. Quick access for when I get recipe pieces.

Then immediately behind that are div cards, and my map tabs.

My regal tab is after my maps tab, since regal recipe items are more rare depending on what level map I feel like running at the time. This, right now, is often dictated by Warbands, since they drop mad loot, I'm actively hunting them using #710, hence I'm fine pushing the regal tab further back to clear the front of my stash for easier organization.

Then there's my shop



Every item is organized into separate b/o tabs. Each increment of chaos from 1-10 gets its own tab. Anything worth more than that goes in my general "shop" tab, to be priced manually.

In each tab, items that I have priced and indexed are in the top left corner. New items get put into the bottom right. This way I know very quickly which items I need to add, and which items are old.

If items in the 1-10c tabs haven't sold after a few days, I move them down an increment. 10c items become 9c items. Etc. If they still haven't sold after being up for 1 chaos for a few days, I use the items in a chaos recipe, or donate them to the guild stash.

If you're interested in seeing how my shop actually looks (I don't use third-party tools, because I like clean organization), you can visit it here:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1304300

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Serleth wrote:

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Rush042 wrote:

I had a question regarding how you map, specifically. I'm finding that even in blue maps, I'm often using all 6 portals, and spending a TON of my time in my hideout IDing and checking for relatively decent pieces to pawn off for a chaos or two each. Do you pick up every single rare just for the alt shard/chance at something decent (unid Chaos Recipes are heavily gated by jewelery for me), or do you find yourself only picking up the small stuff, and the time spent IDing gets smaller as you get more used to quickly assessing items?

You basically nailed it. I'll provide some greater detail though. Because of the length of this reply, I'm going to separate it into two sections.

My mapping philosophy

At this point in the league, I do unid recipes for ilvl 71 or lower, id recipes for 72-74, and regal recipes for 75+.

I don't spend more than 10 seconds per trip in my hideout after clearing 68-69 maps. For defensive items, if it's not capable of rolling the 42-45% resistance range (ilvl 72) at this point in the league, it's more than likely not worth selling, so my scan time is cut significantly. My eyes are able to pick up on 30% rolls very fast. If I don't see it, I vend it.

Offensively, for attack-weapons unless I see 65%+, it's a vendor. Hybrid t2 rolls start at ilvl 73. If it's 65%+ but without accuracy (meaning it's a pure phys roll, guaranteed), it's a vendor. I honestly don't even bother looking at quivers that much unless I see a swath of % rolls, which indicate to me it's got some combination of crit chance/multi/weapon ele, the only combinations that make quivers worth more than 2 chaos.

And so forth.

As for what items I pick up, I limit myself to one 4x2 slot item per trip, and I make sure it's a staff or bow (+3 fire / bow gem items) since it's very easy to burn portals if you grab too many 4x2's. I make exceptions for bows, adding all the bows I find, because statistically you're much more likely to find a +3 bow than you are a +3 fire staff.

I don't even bother focusing on base types until ilvl 73 (highest hybrid attack, highest flat defense affixes). If for whatever reason I find that I have portals left because of that philosophy (re: 4x2 slottage), I don't backtrack: I load a new map. It's faster.

I think that more or less covers it. Over time as you learn the affix tables and base types (ie, anything Ancient Gauntlets and lower = autovendor), your time spent scanning items will be significantly reduced.

Stash organization

Stash organization is also a huge key in making trips faster.



It's hard to see the tab names here because I'm pulling this from the browser but I'll explain.

The first tab is a run tab. I run a map, I do my vendor trip, I ctrl-click everything over. There's slots for pretty much every orb type except divines and exalts.

When those alts/jews/gcp/chance slots etc are full, I move them to the second tab, named simply "$"

That tab is organized in rows: 2 rows of augs, 1 row of alts, 1 row of chromes, 1 row of chaos, 1 row of vaals, 1 row of jewellers, 1 row of fuse, 1 row of scours, 1 row of chance. Then bigger, more rare currency, is bottom right (exalts, regrets, divines, regals).

Further down my stash is the "Reserve-XYZ" tabs section. When a row from the $ tab is filled, I move it there, or spend time in trade converting. One of the two.

As you can see, I have tabs immediately after that are also yellow: those are unid, and id chaos recipe tabs. Quick access for when I get recipe pieces.

Then immediately behind that are div cards, and my map tabs.

My regal tab is after my maps tab, since regal recipe items are more rare depending on what level map I feel like running at the time. This, right now, is often dictated by Warbands, since they drop mad loot, I'm actively hunting them using #710, hence I'm fine pushing the regal tab further back to clear the front of my stash for easier organization.

Then there's my shop



Every item is organized into separate b/o tabs. Each increment of chaos from 1-10 gets its own tab. Anything worth more than that goes in my general "shop" tab, to be priced manually.

In each tab, items that I have priced and indexed are in the top left corner. New items get put into the bottom right. This way I know very quickly which items I need to add, and which items are old.

If items in the 1-10c tabs haven't sold after a few days, I move them down an increment. 10c items become 9c items. Etc. If they still haven't sold after being up for 1 chaos for a few days, I use the items in a chaos recipe, or donate them to the guild stash.

If you're interested in seeing how my shop actually looks (I don't use third-party tools, because I like clean organization), you can visit it here:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1304300

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Rush042 wrote:

Really comprehensive post, and something that I might even recommend putting in the guide (or at least linking to in the FAQ)... Thanks again for the quick and detailed reply!

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I went with Acquisition to put up a shop and to update it, I normally don't like putting all the prices manually in a thread.