Best stash tab combo for 200 points ?

Yay stash sales!!!

But now what?

I'm poor so I bought the starter pack with the blood skin a free stash tab and 200 points.

What tab do you think I need?

Do you think something like:

1 currency tab : 60
1 normal stash bundle : 110
3 upgrade to premium stash tab : 30

Is good ?

I want to be able to trade efficiently but I want to get the most of my money, and ideally, I don't want to spend more before a long time

That sounds about right. Three premium tabs is all you'll ever need to run the marketeering minigame, and the currency tab is the one absolutely crucial purchase out of the Specialty tabs. Everything else ranges from "really useful but not essential" to "fluff". You'd be much better served with simply bulking up your raw tab count if you're still on the basic four tabs. Ten tabs plus a currency tab, three of the ten premiums, is absolutely enough to hold you for quite some time.

The only other specialty tab that comes close to being as 100% I-cannot-live-without-this-anymore as the currency tab is the Map tab, but that is an expensive hussy and you can just stuff maps into one regular tab and police that tab judiciously until such time as you can squeeze a map tab out.

Thank you very much for your reply,

Yes, I think this is the best I can do with 200 but I wonder what are the one that I will eventually want to buy and which one are just bad.

Maybe we could do a list from most important to least important ?

And If anyone else want to give his opinion on what is the best combo for 200 points I would love to hear it, I prefer to have more than 1 perspectives ^^

And does someone know when the stash sales end ?

I am considering getting the 200 points blood starter pack as well for some stash tabs. The freaking inventory could really use some QoL. Though I am still undecided if I want to get into this game long term as I don't like the whole idea of "create the problem, sell the solution" approach of these stash tabs..

Still got so many games on steam to play through and D2: Sigma is coming soon..

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Arcanidas wrote:

Maybe we could do a list from most important to least important ?

1.) Currency Tab. Far and away. This is as close as PoE will ever get to Pay 2 Win, simply because of how much space this saves you and how much more currency you can accumulate when it's not exploding from every seam of your storage.

2.) Map Tab. The Atlas of Worlds benefits strongly from keeping a pool of as many different types of maps as you can keep in stock, which is super annoying without a Map tab. This also helps keep your maps organized and easy to find, which is a nontrivial thing.

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Everything below this line :^^^: is more-or-less fluff to some extent and only really matters once you've been playing Path of Exile for a few hundred hours and are starting to get into serious stash woes. More important to get regular Premium tabs than any of these.

3.) Essence Tab. Essences are not as cluttersome as cards are, but I believe the Essence tab's ability to organize your Essences for easy viewing and allow you to quickly and easily combine and upgrade Essences makes it a more useful overall tab than the Div Card one. That said, if you're new to the game and don't have many Essences at all, you may want to switch this one with:

4.) Divination Card Tab. Div cards can clog an inventory faster than a 24/7 diet of Big Macs clogs arteries. The Div card tab keeps them contained in their own little playroom and can help you know when you've completed a stack, but it's much harder to sort through manually and can make browsing your collection of div cards kind of a hassle

5.) Fragments Tab. This is honestly something you should only worry about in the late game, after you've gotten used to PoE and know why a Fragments tab exists. It's the only one of the premium tabs that doesn't really do you any good whatsoever as a newer player. It's also a little cash-grabby, though I've mostly made my peace with its existence myself. Still the only one I don't own, though.

6.) Quad Tabs. I got a quad tab when I bought the original Threebie Bundle that got me my Essence and Div tab as well, and frankly this thing is a hassle more than a help. It semi-works as a dump sack for stuff you just want to throw out of your personal inventory between map or Delve sessions or such, but actually sorting stuff out in one and organizing it is a copper-plated bitch. The system was clearly not designed for quad tabs and it shows. I use mine exclusively as a dump sack in a given league, and those quad dump tabs get shoved to the back of the Remove-Only glut as soon as a league ends.

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Arcanidas wrote:

And If anyone else want to give his opinion on what is the best combo for 200 points I would love to hear it, I prefer to have more than 1 perspectives ^^

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Heh, nah nah. Hope somebody else does pipe up for ye man, I'd be interested to hear other folks' take too.

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Arcanidas wrote:

And does someone know when the stash sales end ?

Stash sales start on the Friday of the weekend and run through the Monday of the same weekend, more-or-less four days of availability to ensure that everybody gets access to the weekend sale, no matter how their particular time zone classifies 'weekend'. You've got a couple days to think about it, and even if you miss this one there should be another in three or so weeks. Stash sales are a recurring, pretty common thing they run all the time.

currency~then maps then i was looking at ur characters and thought nah not maps lol xd

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Ronteque wrote:

Though I am still undecided if I want to get into this game long term as I don't like the whole idea of "create the problem, sell the solution" approach of these stash tabs..

I'd just like to point out that other games in the genre require you to pay before you can even start playing. Then they also have the problem of limited storage space but there is no solution (at least not an official one, and the unofficial ones come with a disclaimer that they may destroy your data). In PoE you can play quite a bit before stash space even begins to become a problem. Consider getting the starter pack as "purchasing the game".

If it were me, instead of getting 3 prem upgrades, I'd get one new regular tab, and either one upgrade or save the 10 points for your next purchase.

If you have the basic four tabs, you need to increase your total storage capacity more than anything else. Everything else is QOL. Even the currency tab is QOL. So it depends on your tolerance of sorting currency. I think the game was out a couple of years before we even had specialty tabs, so everyone manually sorted currency.

I'd place importance from high to low:
Currency
Total number of tabs
Premium tab *IF* you plan to sell
Map and div cards - tie
Fragment
Essence
Premium tabs if you don't plan to sell
Quad

Quad tabs are the only purchase I regret. I don't use them at all except at the end of the league when I throw a bunch of stuff in there before league migration.

If you think you'll keep playing the game, I recommend not spending the leftover "change". For example instead of getting 3 prem upgrades, I'd but one new tab and save the 10 points. You have to buy points in increments of $5 USD. You'll notice that a lot of tab prices are just over a $5 increment. If you save the 10 points, then next time you can get a tab bundle for $10 plus the 10 points you saved. Otherwise it becomes $15.

Yeah, if you're just looking for optimizing 200pts, you've pretty much nailed it. If you know you're planning to play for a long time, go:
1. Currency (60)
2. Map (120)
3. 2x Premium upgrade for listing items for trading (2x10).

If you're really efficient/picky with what you keep, you could probably get by with just the 3 remaining tabs.

The map tab really increases your stash efficiency if you're spending a lot of your time in the game after completing the acts running maps.

I'm a packrat, so I've got all the custom tabs, 1 quad tab (that I don't like cause stuff is so small and it's hard to sort due to click in/out zoom), and 38 premium tabs...

Thank you everyone for your help.

I think you conforted me in my choice

I think I will take:

1 normal bundle : 110
1 currency : 60

The only thing I don't know is :

Do I upgrade only 1 premium and save 20 for when I really need the map stash so I only need a 100 point reload and I'm done.

Or do I need 3 premium to trade efficiently ?
Because I like to hoard a lot of things and I'm not really good to estimate the price of what I pick up, so maybe I will need more than one ?
And I don't really need to buy them for aesthetic reasons, I think.