Does gathering many legendaries before identifying have any advantages?
I recently started playing Diablo3 again after taking a break for some moths. While playing solo I enjoy watching streams because they're sometimes really informative. Something I noticed there was that most streamers would first gather lots of legendaries before actually identifying them. I saw this behaviour at /r/diablo3 too, so I thought of any advantages this would have but the only thing I could think of was that you might always equip the best item out of a larger pool of items, but this seems to be only relevant to characters with a already pretty good item level. So why would people not want to identify their legendaries on fresh 70 toons? Especially if they have hundreds of millions of gold so that enchanting one semi-good item does not hurt them that much?
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No there isn't any benefit from waiting. Most streamers do that to build up hype on their stream like : Hey look I'm going to identify 100 legs on stream ! but it doesn't go further than that.
There is always the psychological aspect that when you identify more legendaries at once you feel you have more chance to have something good than identifying them when you get them but it does'nt change anything.
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Answers to this question indicate that stats on legendary items are generated 'on drop', not 'on identify'.
It follows that when or how you identify looted legendary items (i.e. whether you identify them as you pick them up, one-by-one back in town, or all at once with the Book of Cain) has no effect on the identified item or its stats.
If speed is a priority, there is a practical advantage in taking all of your legendaries back to town and using the Tome: that it would take you less time to activate the Tome (5 seconds, from Wikia) than it would take to identify each legendary item individually (5 seconds per item, and with an inventory full of legendaries that'd take you at least 2-5 minutes.) And that's not even factoring in the time spent looking at your inventory every time an item drops.
Of course, theoretically you could pick up a major upgrade that didn't require enchanting or gemming, get a damage boost, mow through that rift a little faster and pick up more legendaries sooner... if you're lucky.
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