You have to collect items in Diablo 4 if you want more crafting materials or transmog skins.
While different styles for your weapons and armor are nice, it’s those valuable crafting materials that make salvaging your gear more useful than selling it most of the time.
If you’ve never played a Diablo game before, or need a refresher, we’ve detailed how to recover items in Diablo 4 below, including a section on how to collect legendary itemsbecause there is an extra step involved.
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How to Collect Items in Diablo 4
Scavenging will eventually become second nature to you, but it’s not very well explained how to do it early in the game.
To collect items in Diablo 4, you must visit a blacksmith. They are found in cities and most towns, even small ones. Blacksmiths are easily identified by the hammer and anvil symbol on the map.
Once you talk to a blacksmith, you will see many recovery options on the screen. Here is what each recovery option at the blacksmith:
- all junk – Pick up all items in your inventory marked as “junk” (you have to manually do this in your inventory and you cannot mark legendaries as junk).
- Commmon – Collect all gray items in your inventory.
- Magic – Collect all yellow items in your inventory.
- Rare – Collect all blue items in your inventory.
- All items – Collect all items in your inventory that can be collected (legendaries will not be collected).
You can of course also pick up individual items, but we recommend looking at your loot and marking what you don’t want as junk before visiting the blacksmith, so you can quickly get rid of a lot of items at once when you reach the blacksmith.
Don’t worry if you have gems inserted into your gear when you pick them up, as picking them up will disconnect them and return the gems to you. So it’s actually a good way to get your gems for free.
If an item has the description “unlocks a new look on pickup”, then when you pick it up from the blacksmith, its look will be added to your transmog styles. You can change your appearance through transmogrification by visiting the wardrobe available in towns.
How to Collect Legendary Items in Diablo 4
You may have noticed from the recovery descriptions above that Legendaries are not included. It’s because you have to manually select legendary items with the hammer symbol at a blacksmith to collect legendary items in Diablo 4
It’s the hammer with the red background directly above the “All Junk” option.
All you have to do is choose the legendary object from your inventory that you want to recover. A message will appear asking if you are sure you want to recover it. We recommend that you think carefully if you want to recover a legendary, because it is often better to keep it in your reserve for another character or to extract its legendary aspect.
It’s all up to you, as you get useful crafting resources to upgrade other legendaries if you choose to collect one.
Should you sell or collect items in Diablo 4?
Having gold is necessary to upgrade, craft, and do almost everything related to your loot in Diablo 4, so it’s an important resource to have.
That said, you get gold from a lot of sources like killing enemies and completing missions, while you really only get useful crafting materials by picking up your unwanted gear.
You don’t need a lot of gold or crafting materials at the start of the game, but it’s a good idea to save up for now. As crafting materials are a rarer find than gold, we recommend that you collect your items instead of selling them in Diablo 4. At least until you’re in the endgame.
When you’ve passed level 50, we recommend that you start thinking about selling your gear rather than salvaging it.
As for Legendaries, we recommend only picking them up if you decide you don’t want to clutter up your inventory anymore. Typically, though, you need to store your legendaries for different builds and characters, or mine their power aspects so you can create your own legendaries.
All the best in your Diablo 4 journey!
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