How enchanting broke my bank

Walden_Grimtine · April 2014

Here's the problem I am having and I hope I am doing something wrong that I can correct so please let me know.

I have been gathering runes to level enchanting as well as desconstructing glyphs and creating glyphs. The issue I have run into that makes zero sense to me is that I have 729,435,821,969 of the triangular shaped runes (essence maybe?), many less of the square shaped runes square and like 5 of the Ta runes. The Ta runes seem to be the only common circular runes to use for just creating glyphs to level. I don't want to use the fine, superior, and epic runes like Rukata and such just to level. I have very few of them also.

So, to sum up, how am I supposed to level a profession where 1 essential component is almost nonexistent relative to an overabundance of the other components. It almost seems like they designed enchanting specifically to destroy bank/bag space.

katamuro11b16_ESO · April 2014

Yeah the rarity of different runes is just too great, you will find triangle ones much more often then square or round ones. Its just something in the game, another weird balance issue that plagues both TES games and ESO.

Calvice · April 2014

I know the feel bro
My bank ONLY has runes
And from the about 200 runes I got , 20 are round lol

Alphaeus · April 2014

And for those who got the digital map pack with the imperial edition, half of your bank space is already being used up to hold the collectors edition treasure maps.

buzyb77 · April 2014

I deconstructed 30 runes last night got 1 triangle...

andrantos · April 2014

You do realize you can take the maps out one at a time? Basically, cherry pick the maps as needed.

jodyren · April 2014

Personally I haven't seen a circle rune in 10 levels. Got a crap ton of the other two, and haven't gotten a circle in forever. Only leveling up by breaking down glyphs now.

Sorpaijen_ESO · April 2014

Problem is, once you HAVE opened the containers, you can't stuff them back in. Hindsight is 20/20, after all.

RE: The runes... I had wondered why there was a skill that gives like 5% greater chance of extracting Aspects from glyphs... I hope that's not their "solution" for the disparity between the flood of Essence runes and the meager Potency and Aspect runes available.

Food4Thought · April 2014

I'm running into similar issues with inventory space. and I'm getting to the point where I am wondering if I am not going to drop enchanting temporarily while I level the other crafting options.

Provisions is easy to level, you just have to be selective on what ingredients you keep. I'm level 13 currently and my provisions is almost at 40. At this point new recipes are like a god send as I am now seeking ingredients that go to recipes I haven't even seen yet.

Alchemy ... few items but you craft as you find them. I don't have a single alchemy regent in my bank at all.

Cloth, blacksmith, and woodworking .... cake to manage. The hard part is keeping a supply of items to break down to learn from. You can't keep too many, yet you can't keep too few either until you learn everything. and with only 15 racial motifs in the game, this isn't particular difficult to manage.

And then we come to enchanting ...

It is like getting a new flavor of candy with every node opened. I literally starting making choices. Keep only one ones I think I will actually use or the ones I have a bunch of for simple crafting purposes. It simply doesn't make sense to have 2 of this or 1 of that and take up 15 inventory slots. And when I do find a Ta ... it is like the gods smiled upon me. Because I can finally make something and bump it up a nudge.

Frankly, enchanting is the lowest of my professions currently. And it takes up the most space. It is also due to the lack of Ta in the game. Fortunately, they do seem to be in heavy sacks most of the time, outside of the harvest nodes, but those sacks are few and far between. They are more rare than treasure chests.

Bluntski · April 2014

Let me preface this with: DO NOT USE YOUR ENCHANTING LEVEL TO GAUGE THE SUCCESS OF THE CRAFT

I don't know if I'm lucky but I have:

20+ white circles
14 blues circles
12 purple circles
5 yellow circles
More than enough purple runes of all types as well

Level 46 char and 27 enchanting. The majority of your runes should be coming from breaking down what you find while questing. Think of the runes spawns in the word as more of a bonus and not a primary source.

Sakiri · April 2014

Sorpaijen_ESO wrote: »

Problem is, once you HAVE opened the containers, you can't stuff them back in. Hindsight is 20/20, after all.

RE: The runes... I had wondered why there was a skill that gives like 5% greater chance of extracting Aspects from glyphs... I hope that's not their "solution" for the disparity between the flood of Essence runes and the meager Potency and Aspect runes available.

I have points in that and still almost never get aspect runes from deconstruction.

reggielee · April 2014

yes, I never have enough of the circle ones, i may get one or two per hours of gameplay, its beyond annoying