Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance/Items

Items is pretty important in this game. You don't want to die right away. You need potions and jewellery to survive this game.

Health potions is what you buy and sell the most. If the enemy takes a long time to beat, be ready to time using health potions and try to keep it to a minimum.

Magic potions is the same but for Adrianna. Since she's the sorceress, you don't want her magic to take a while to regenerate. Even when enemies are attacking her due to her weak strength.

Recall potions is important in terms of when you reach the maximum weight and has to go to a save haven where the shop owner is willing to buy and sell items. Rest assure, you won't lose your progress when you recall back to where you left off.

Rings and necklaces is important for your stats. For example, if Adrianna has weak strength in Act 3, she can use the ring with +5 strength to boost her combat and her weight. But if the ring or necklace has no stats then it's useless and needs to be sold. It's a good idea if one of your stats has been neglected and need something to help boost the stats.

Other items like gems is useless in this game. The only thing you can do is to sell it to make more gold. So if you're short of getting that item, sell the gems to lose the carrying weight and hope you have enough for it.