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The Stash in Diablo 4 - Why Can't We Hold All These Legendaries?
Diablo IV
Publié
08/07/2023 à 09:00
par
RenataKane
Some topics in the Diablo community will always spark controversy - Stash space, drop rates, itemization, and the in-game Shop have all been hot topics burning their way through circles of Wanderers since Diablo 4 launched. We've got our own opinions: read on to find out more about our take on the Stash in Diablo 4!
The only conversation more heated these days than the subject of gear is where to store it. The Stash has been the subject of debate and discussion since the very first Diablo franchise, and Diablo 4 is no exception. While the recent developer talk touched on one planned update to Gems that affects the stash (turning Gems into a Material rather than an item), they were cagey on the subject of planned changes to the Stash in general.
No matter what, we're always going to want more storage. While 200 slots sounds roomy (50 slots on 4 tabs), it quickly gets overcrowded if you run even one alt, much less two or three, particularly if they're different classes. With smart loot, you're going to end up with a lot of stored gear! Saving items and extracted Aspects for future alts or for possible respecs is a bag stuffer.
What follows (in no particular order) is our wish list for the Stash going forward.
Wish 1: More space, more tabs.
There is a lot of empty real estate at the bottom of the stash that's taken up by an attractive but useless graphic. There's ample space to add 2 more stash rows, giving each tab 70 slots instead of 50 -- a total of 80 slots across all four tabs.
Nice mural, or 20 more stash slots? Hmmm...
There's clearly room for eight tabs, not just the four tabs we can get now. Why wait? Most of us would be more than happy to spend more gold to get more tabs. Diablo 3 allowed players to earn more stashes through Season rewards. There's many ways to introduce new tabs.
It's clear from the design that Blizzard is planning for future expansion of the stash. What I never understand is why this isn't rolled out from the beginning. This is basic quality of life.
Wish 2: Give a Personal Stash Tab to each character.
One of the great innovations in Diablo 2: Resurrected was the introduction of the Personal Stash Tab. While all other stash tabs can be accessed by all characters, the Personal Stash Tab is only accessible to that character. Items could be moved back and forth between the personal tab and the shared tabs, but it is an easy way to designate and store upgrades meant for specific alts.
This helps enormously with sorting and putting aside gear for alts. You can simply move items designated for alts into their Personal Stash Tab, and it's out of the way for the other characters.
A Personal Stash tab also opens the option to create bank characters, whose sole job it was to store items you might not want to trash but don't think you'll need anytime soon. With only 10 character slots, you wouldn't want to make too many bank alts, but I'd definitely remake my faithful multi-decade Diablo bank barbarian TraderJoey for such storage purposes.
Wish 3: More meaningful Sort options.
Initially I was really happy to see a Sort button on the stash tab, until I started using it. While it works very well for gems, it's wonky for all other types of items.
It only looks like a good idea.
Gear is sorted by type (Amulets, Chests, Wands, etc), but within type, there's little reason to how it sorts. It's not by minimum level or item level within type. A level 28 Amulet may appear sandwiched between a level 42 and a level 38.
It gets even worse when you sort saved Aspects. It does sort by grade (Normal, Sacred, Ancestral) and by type (Offensive, Defensive, etc). Beyond that, I can't make any sense of its sorting algorithm. It's not by alphabetical order, item level, or required minimum level; the same Aspects are often spread across the collection with no apparent pattern. The only possibility I can think of is that the sort order is the order in which I completed the extractions, which is totally useless for searching.
Sort options should be a dropdown that allows you to sort by minimum level, item level, class, or name, whichever makes the most sense for what you're trying to sort.
Wish 4: Include a search box.
The whole sort thing could be bypassed in most cases if it just gave you a search box. You may know you have a copy of "Protecting" in your box somewhere -- is it unextracted on an item, or is it somewhere in your wall of saved Aspects? A search box would solve a multitude of problems.
Wish 5: Store extracted Aspects with the Occultist.
I hate Salvaging an item with a dropped Aspect -- any dropped Aspect -- because I do a lot of testing and like to have a number of options available without feeling like I have to go farm it up somewhere. Sure, I might not be working on that poison-focused Werebear right
now
, but what if I wanted to at some point down the road?
The current problem is that Aspects take up room, and as mentioned before, the sorting algorithms make it hard for me to find the many extracted aspects I've stored.
Solution: have the Occultist save our "patterns" for us, like it does with the Codex. It would just be another book with a limited (and one-use only) array of Aspects we've extracted and saved, but we don't have to carry around with us anymore. We could also choose which one we wanted out of the pattern book, like picking it out of the Codex. This would also save a lot of existing space in the stash.
Do you have other ideas on how to improve Diablo 4's in-game stash? Let us know in the comments below!
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