d3 Easy Reusable Parts Farm Tip/Reminder

[Starym 3,800]

 

This is a bit of a weird one, but still a useful tip, as Wudijo reminds us of this simple/obvious technique some players (including myself) might have missed. So while playing your usual rifts and GRs you won't really be coming across many white items that can be dismantled into Reusable Parts, so every once in a while you'll have to go out and farm weapon and armor racks to get some for the upgrade rare item Kanai's Cube recipe.

Well, you don't actually have to do that, as you can buy as many white quality items from the vendors as you want and, since you can't actually dismantle vendor items,  you can convert your blue and yellow mats into reusable parts using the two Kanai's Cube recipes (which require a white item). And that's pretty much it, if you have an excess of Arcane Dust and Veiled Crystals (which you will because of the few white items that drop in high level gameplay) you can get as many Reusable Parts as you need! Not exactly a secret/high-level tip but definitely a useful heads up that you can substitute gold for the mat conversion requirement in the Kanai's Cube recipe, so thanks to Wudijo for the reminder!

[Mugendai 48]

Funny enough, I always find myself having too many reusable parts, and never enough of the blue and yellow mats

[darkinchworm 20]

I find myself swimming in all of them. But I mass hoard/trash through almost the entire experience so...

[Starym 3,800]

23 minutes ago, darkinchworm said:

I find myself swimming in all of them. But I mass hoard/trash through almost the entire experience so...

Haha same here. The only limitation I come across is deaths breath.

[Calin 50]

This is a horrible tip!

Go to the battlefields in act5 and click all the armor/weapon containers. You can fill your inventory 3-4 times with white items in a single run and can be done on normal...

These  you can then make into yellow and blue mats since you will easily get tens of thousand white maps in an hour

[Starym 3,800]

1 hour ago, Calin said:

This is a horrible tip!

Go to the battlefields in act5 and click all the armor/weapon containers. You can fill your inventory 3-4 times with white items in a single run and can be done on normal...

These  you can then make into yellow and blue mats since you will easily get tens of thousand white maps in an hour

Not for people that have basically infinite yellow and blue mats. Not having to run around and click on the containers is a benefit to them. Perhaps you prefer your method but it doesn't mean this one is bad or wrong.

[Calin 50]

1 minute ago, Starym said:

Not for people that have basically infinite yellow and blue mats. Not having to run around and click on the containers is a benefit to them. Perhaps you prefer your method but it doesn't mean this one is bad or wrong.

I respectfully disagree.
Nobody will ever be in a scenario where they have "infinite yellow and blue mats". And since you get 1 yellow mat per item, where as you get a bucketfull of white from white items, the logic is very flawed.
 

[Starym 3,800]

1 hour ago, Calin said:

I respectfully disagree.
Nobody will ever be in a scenario where they have "infinite yellow and blue mats". And since you get 1 yellow mat per item, where as you get a bucketfull of white from white items, the logic is very flawed.
 

I don't think you realize how much people farm and ignore white items but it's np, personally I do the same thing as you and don't have a need for white items, but I also know there are plenty of people that don't agree and don't do that.

[Trest 61]

Except when first leveling, I mostly don’t pick up the white/blue/yellow items that drop during a run. I do generally pick up all the items that drop from the end boss, which (other than legendaries) are mostly yellow and sometimes blue. My other source is bloodshard rolls, which never roll a white. So I do end up with less Reusable Parts than the blue and yellow crafting materials.