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Bank Space Management Tips
Taurus498
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There are a ton of posts on this forum from those that are having a very frustrating time with managing their Bank Space. So I decided that it would be helpful to create a thread where players can give hints and tips on ways they manage their Bank Space more efficiently.
Just over a week ago I was struggling a lot with my Bank Space management, and came very close to giving up on the game altogether. But because I had spent $60 on it I decided to spend some time on the internet and in game, looking for ways to manage my Inventory and Crafting more efficiently.
As far as I can tell, there are around 289 individual Crafting Materials in this game. This at first glance seems like an extremely daunting task to try and manage in a default Bank Space of only 60.
But here is how I’m currently managing my Bank Space sufficiently, so that I’m spending the vast majority of my time playing the game and not tediously managing my Inventories:
I am currently leveling 8 alts, which are all around level 15. And every alt is doing Blacksmithing, Woodworking, Clothing and Enchanting. With some of them specializing in these individual crafts more so than others.
First of all I try to only have Crafting Materials in my Bank, and anything that is not a Crafting Material that I REALLY want to keep, is stored between my alts. Also I try to only have 1 stack of each material, and whenever a Stack goes over 100 I add this 100 stack to the Guild Store to make some extra gold. The majority of my gold goes towards upgrading my Bank, Bag & Horse space for all my characters.
I have only one of my alts specializing in Provisioning, and it was extremely easy for this alt to reach level 50 Provisioning. I did this by ignoring most of the Provisioning Ingredients while out adventuring with all my alts (totally ignore Crates, Barrels and Sacks). Because all I had to do was spend 30 mins every couple of days doing a “Town Farming Run” for Provisioning Ingredients, which gives you a large amount of Ingredients that allows you to level up Provisioning really quick.
Plus I receive a nice profit from selling all of my Green Provisions as I only keep the Blues, and I usually come across at least 1 Motif Book and Blue Recipe Book each time I do this “Town Farming Run”, which is another great bonus.
Watch this great video on how to do this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0xxJrjH4Qk
There are 47 “Reagent”, 36 “Solvent” and 18 Enhancement Provisioning Ingredients, so doing the above ultimately saves 101 Bank Space. But because Enhancement Provisions are essential for Blue and Purple Recipes, I have recently decided to store these Enhancements on my Provisioning Character.
I also now have only one of my alts specializing in Alchemy. So this alt carries all of the Reagents & Solvents, which means this alt would ultimately need to carry 25 Alchemy Ingredients. But I’m starting to cut out some of these ingredients which I don’t find useful (like Nirnroot) and Solvents that my characters have out leveled.
All Raw Materials for Blacksmithing, Clothing & Woodworking are kept on my characters, which ultimately saves another 35 Bank Space. And any Crafting Materials that I collect in which none of my characters are at the level to use them, I also store them on my characters and not the Bank.
And I have one “Mule” alt which carries my CE Treasure Maps and Trophies.
After spending a lot of time Fishing, I also now totally ignore it as it seems like a huge waste of time, so this frees up a lot of room in my Inventory for my characters as well.
Using the above system, I currently have a Bank that has 75 Crafting Materials in it and 15 free space for transferring items between my alts. And I also now only spend around 10 mins managing my Bank Space out of every 2 hours adventuring, which is really great.
Addons really are a must in this game, and these are the Addons (from: http://www.esoui.com/addons.php ) which I currently find REALLY helpful for managing my Bank Space and Crafting far more efficiently:
Alchemist
Bank Grid View
Bazgrim’s Toolbar
Craft Compare
Crafting XP
Esohead
Greymind Quick Slot Bar
Guild Store Search
Harvest Map
Inventory Insight
Inventory Item Borders
Inventory Mod
Item Saver
Loot Drop – All in one
Loot Filter Remix
Luminary Trade HistorySales
Research Assistant
Show Motifs
Sous Chef
Treasure Maps
Zr Mini Map – Modified
And here are some useful Websites for Crafting:
http://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Provisioning#.U1XEi_mSx8E
http://esohead.com/recipes
http://eso.warlore.org/alchemy/
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/comment/493988/#Comment_493988
http://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Crafting#.U1XE7_mSx8E
http://esomerchants.org/item-database/
I really hope this thread is able to help at least some of you guys that are having a frustrating time with Bank Space.
And I encourage all of you that are actively leveling and doing all the crafts between multiple characters to also add your own tips to this tread, on the ways you are managing your Bank Space and Crafting more efficiently.
TL;DR: Don’t collect Provisioning Ingredients while out adventuring, as they are a huge waste of space and extremely easy to gather in Towns. Use Addons that make Inventory and Crafting management far more efficient.
Just over a week ago I was struggling a lot with my Bank Space management, and came very close to giving up on the game altogether. But because I had spent $60 on it I decided to spend some time on the internet and in game, looking for ways to manage my Inventory and Crafting more efficiently.
As far as I can tell, there are around 289 individual Crafting Materials in this game. This at first glance seems like an extremely daunting task to try and manage in a default Bank Space of only 60.
But here is how I’m currently managing my Bank Space sufficiently, so that I’m spending the vast majority of my time playing the game and not tediously managing my Inventories:
I am currently leveling 8 alts, which are all around level 15. And every alt is doing Blacksmithing, Woodworking, Clothing and Enchanting. With some of them specializing in these individual crafts more so than others.
First of all I try to only have Crafting Materials in my Bank, and anything that is not a Crafting Material that I REALLY want to keep, is stored between my alts. Also I try to only have 1 stack of each material, and whenever a Stack goes over 100 I add this 100 stack to the Guild Store to make some extra gold. The majority of my gold goes towards upgrading my Bank, Bag & Horse space for all my characters.
I have only one of my alts specializing in Provisioning, and it was extremely easy for this alt to reach level 50 Provisioning. I did this by ignoring most of the Provisioning Ingredients while out adventuring with all my alts (totally ignore Crates, Barrels and Sacks). Because all I had to do was spend 30 mins every couple of days doing a “Town Farming Run” for Provisioning Ingredients, which gives you a large amount of Ingredients that allows you to level up Provisioning really quick.
Plus I receive a nice profit from selling all of my Green Provisions as I only keep the Blues, and I usually come across at least 1 Motif Book and Blue Recipe Book each time I do this “Town Farming Run”, which is another great bonus.
Watch this great video on how to do this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0xxJrjH4QkThere are 47 “Reagent”, 36 “Solvent” and 18 Enhancement Provisioning Ingredients, so doing the above ultimately saves 101 Bank Space. But because Enhancement Provisions are essential for Blue and Purple Recipes, I have recently decided to store these Enhancements on my Provisioning Character.
I also now have only one of my alts specializing in Alchemy. So this alt carries all of the Reagents & Solvents, which means this alt would ultimately need to carry 25 Alchemy Ingredients. But I’m starting to cut out some of these ingredients which I don’t find useful (like Nirnroot) and Solvents that my characters have out leveled.
All Raw Materials for Blacksmithing, Clothing & Woodworking are kept on my characters, which ultimately saves another 35 Bank Space. And any Crafting Materials that I collect in which none of my characters are at the level to use them, I also store them on my characters and not the Bank.
And I have one “Mule” alt which carries my CE Treasure Maps and Trophies.
After spending a lot of time Fishing, I also now totally ignore it as it seems like a huge waste of time, so this frees up a lot of room in my Inventory for my characters as well.
Using the above system, I currently have a Bank that has 75 Crafting Materials in it and 15 free space for transferring items between my alts. And I also now only spend around 10 mins managing my Bank Space out of every 2 hours adventuring, which is really great.
Addons really are a must in this game, and these are the Addons (from: http://www.esoui.com/addons.php ) which I currently find REALLY helpful for managing my Bank Space and Crafting far more efficiently:
Alchemist
Bank Grid View
Bazgrim’s Toolbar
Craft Compare
Crafting XP
Esohead
Greymind Quick Slot Bar
Guild Store Search
Harvest Map
Inventory Insight
Inventory Item Borders
Inventory Mod
Item Saver
Loot Drop – All in one
Loot Filter Remix
Luminary Trade HistorySales
Research Assistant
Show Motifs
Sous Chef
Treasure Maps
Zr Mini Map – Modified
And here are some useful Websites for Crafting:
http://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Provisioning#.U1XEi_mSx8E
http://esohead.com/recipes
http://eso.warlore.org/alchemy/
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/comment/493988/#Comment_493988
http://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Crafting#.U1XE7_mSx8E
http://esomerchants.org/item-database/
I really hope this thread is able to help at least some of you guys that are having a frustrating time with Bank Space.
And I encourage all of you that are actively leveling and doing all the crafts between multiple characters to also add your own tips to this tread, on the ways you are managing your Bank Space and Crafting more efficiently.
TL;DR: Don’t collect Provisioning Ingredients while out adventuring, as they are a huge waste of space and extremely easy to gather in Towns. Use Addons that make Inventory and Crafting management far more efficient.
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