Deconstructing items from the bank..

I55UE5

Why is there no way to mark an item as a favorite or something of the like so it can not be sold, deconstructed or destroyed? Further more.. why the hell am I able to break apart an item for materials when it is in my bank.. This is beyond stupid. I can deconstruct 1 item on all my characters while it is not even near me.. such immersion much sense.

Gyudan

You can also improve items while they are in your bank and use crafting materials from the bank to create and improve items. It's more about practical use than immersion in my opinion. For example, I'd hate to have to pick up every single material that I need, then go to a world crafting station 5 minutes away, only to find out that I'm missing 2 voidstone ingots to craft my new armor set.

I would like to see some kind of safety system to avoid selling or deconstructing gear that remains in each character's inventory at some point though. I'm traveling with many pieces of legendary gear to easily switch from tank to DPS and I'm always afraid to deconstruct one of them by accident.

Syntse

http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info300-ItemSaver.html

newtinmpls

I have been burned by the whole - deconstructed something with on character that another meant to be saving. I'm trying to develop the habit of the crafter (deconstructer) going to the bank first, then in the deconstruction screen, checking for the 'bag' symbol vs the 'bank' symbol. At least now I know that anything I really really want saved for someone - well they better be holding on to it.
I still have one character whose saved most of the prisoner robes I ever got; she has plans to make super buff armor, then wear a dyed robe over it to look much weaker than she actually is.

gstewart0413b14_ESO

Since you have 8 character slots, create (or use one you've created) a characters as a storage for stuff you want to protect.

Ourorboros

Syntse wrote: »

http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info300-ItemSaver.html

Use above add-on or others available for what you want. If you don't use add-ons, you're SOL. ZOS seems unlikely to change the UI. They only make changes that can be implemented through an add-on. Pretty twisted system, neh?

I55UE5

gstewart0413b14_ESO wrote: »

Since you have 8 character slots, create (or use one you've created) a characters as a storage for stuff you want to protect.

This is exactly what I did after deconstructing multiple undaunted legendarys. I had to swing by here and rage first, of course.

gilandbb14_ESO

Ourorboros wrote: »

Use above add-on or others available for what you want. If you don't use add-ons, you're SOL. ZOS seems unlikely to change the UI. They only make changes that can be implemented through an add-on. Pretty twisted system, neh?

Allowing the community the pieces it wants to create custom UI is not a bad thing. I think they gave us a basic UI, but really want players to use player made UIs. Why have a team building UIs that won't satisfy everyone when players will do it for free, and actually demand the ability to do so? The devs work on the backend, the players make UIs they like.

newtinmpls

Use a character as "storage" ?!?!? Blasphemy!! (says the die-hard RPGer). Heck, I still write fanfiction for NPCs I met while playing Morrowind. The idea of rolling up a character who was not a "character" ... I just couldn't do that.

I wish we could toggle or change or temporarily block some of the bank access. That might solve some problems. On the other hand, I'm sure it would create other problems.

Woolenthreads

I do use characters for storage but I also play them or have an intent to play them in the future. Mostly though I use the alts to research what the crafter can't research, due to time constraints, and then make what he needs to learn when he has space in his queue. However even with 8 Alts I have gotten to a point where it's much harder to do any back up research and stay close to the character concept without still using them for storage

newtinmpls

Among the characters that I have (and now it's all eight of them) I have one each 'primary' clothier, woodworker, blacksmith, provisioner, alchemist. One who is the 'backup' for clothier & blacksmithing, one who is the backup for woodworking & clothier (had to have a total of 3 clothiers to account for all the back and forth constructing/deconstructing in light & medium armor) and the last one ... she's not quite figured out what to do yet. After any given adventure the character in question deconstructs stuff that doesn't have a trait (or has something I don't care about like well-fitted or sturdy), then gives the rest to the primary of that type. As a result, I'm pretty much always broke (since I don't sell deconstructable items) and I can craft items way higher than I can use.

SangDePoulpe

@newtinmpls‌ I actually have several alts that could be seen as more storage but I think I did it in an RPG friendly way.

1. They are all argonians
2. They are still wearing their outfit as a prisoner and their chains
3. They are named according to argonian lore. (Hoards-the-reagents, for example)

So I have a master and his slaves. He dubbed them in a way he could remember their name and use. For they all look like the same to him. Filthy scaly creatures. They should be honoured to serve him.

What do you think ?

SpAEkus

I ended up with one master-crafter and 6 Hireling-alts and one main-PVE-PVP.

Had no intention of making them all crafter-alts but after saving their names and lebveling their hirelings they just seemed to get that way after using them to craft-swap with my main. They also each store a specific category(s) of mats.

Luckily the main-crafter now does all research (8/8 on all light + Wood and now just filling in med and Metal and shields).

That main holds all items for research and I swear by Research Assistant

esoui.com/downloads/info111-ResearchAssistant.html

Research assistant shows what is research-able to the character I am ON and since the main holds save items, even though the bank may show others, I know that the bank ones are safe to decon by all my alts. The only time I check twice is when my main sees the bank, but the alts will have emptied it before then.

Now why we can't Upgrade items we are Wearing without taking them off, that I would like to be able to do instead of shucking to my undies whenever I need to up my active gear.

Woolenthreads

SpAEkus wrote: »

I ended up with one master-crafter and 6 Hireling-alts and one main-PVE-PVP.

Had no intention of making them all crafter-alts but after saving their names and lebveling their hirelings they just seemed to get that way after using them to craft-swap with my main. They also each store a specific category(s) of mats.

LOL. I started wth a character who has become my Master Crafter and levelled an alt past him. I'll probably level a second Alt past him too because he's become vaguely frustrating to play.

SpAEkus wrote: »

Now why we can't Upgrade items we are Wearing without taking them off, that I would like to be able to do instead of shucking to my undies whenever I need to up my active gear.

You could keep a costume handy so you wouldn't appear to be "shucking to my undies" .

newtinmpls

SangDePoulpe wrote: »

@newtinmpls‌ I actually have several alts that could be seen as more storage but I think I did it in an RPG friendly way.

1. They are all argonians
2. They are still wearing their outfit as a prisoner and their chains
3. They are named according to argonian lore. (Hoards-the-reagents, for example)

So I have a master and his slaves. He dubbed them in a way he could remember their name and use. For they all look like the same to him. Filthy scaly creatures. They should be honoured to serve him.

What do you think ?

I'm at once enchanted by the detail and the lore-friendliness, and horrified that you would play such an evil character. My dunmer (first character I rolled up) is Telvanni and her take on it is that slaves 1-make one weak in depending on the skill/ability/function of another and 2-it is the responsibility of the slave to kill anyone weak enough to need to be a master (similar to how ES sees the progression of orc son killing clanhead).

fromtesonlineb16_ESO

I agree with the OP entirely, I still sometimes forget that items in the bank can be destroyed like this, I know it's my 'fault' but I tend to put things in my inventory I want to manipulate in some way so I often overlook the items in the bank that an action can also affect.