Is it worth keeping gear I won't be using for a long time because it has "perfect" traits?

Asardes

I've arrived at a point where 4/8 characters I have are just storing gear, 200 pieces. I only keep the divines from each set, and maybe the impenetrable for the ones that might be useful in PvP. But it just looks like a waste to create that many characters just to end up as walking storage, for indefinite periods. And I've even realized that traits are not even that important. For example a divines piece adds just 0.825% critical chance, that further translates in a 0.5% increase in potential damage if you have 100 points in elf born/precise strikes.

Am I better off just deconstructing everything, and just farming it when I need it?

oibam

keep sharpened weapons and juwelery

pattyLtd

I actually been thinking about the same.

After one tamriel initially i kept everything i considered possibly good but inventories got flooded rather quickly on all my characters and i decided to only keep those pieces i expect to be using at some point.

If that means regretting things in the future so be it I don't have time to do inventory management everytime before i can do pledges or whatever. It's not fun to me.

i once decon'd a blue elegant sword sharpened without really thinking about it that's a lomng time ago but damn that was a mistake

Asardes

I think I will just keep the weapons. Jewelry is easy to get. I have already deconstructed a class of sets during this week end, because I found them useless:
- Dreugh King Slayer
- Tootrow
- Treasure Hunter
- Tormentor
- Rattlecage
- Medusa

Next on the list are:
- Automaton
- Spider Cultist
- Netch Touch
- Sword Singer
- Noble Duelist
- Overwhelming Surge
- Essence Thief

Sets I will be keeping regardless:
- Infallible Mage
- Spell Power Cure
- Scathing Mage
- Burning Spellwave
- Worm Cultist
- Ebon Armory

Asardes

I think that 100-150 pieces of gear are more than enough for any effective build you can make in this game. And that probably includes crafted pieces. So one character could handle the whole gear load for the other 8 without any issues. I will also sell all surplus materials to free up the mule for those. Really no point in keeping thousands of rubedite now when it's available on every road side.

pattyLtd

Asardes wrote: »

I think that 100-150 pieces of gear are more than enough for any effective build you can make in this game. And that probably includes crafted pieces. So one character could handle the whole gear load for the other 8 without any issues. I will also sell all surplus materials to free up the mule for those. Really no point in keeping thousands of rubedite now when it's available on every road side.

I agree, since the craft bag made it's introduction i used to have a pretty much empty bank and inventories were clean aswell.
Just wasn't sure what sets i'd like to have after OT so hold on to a bunch but i also got rid of most of it by now.

All i still have to clean out is monster sets

Asardes

I will keep just a shoulder and head for each monster set:
Magicka ones light divines
Stamina ones medium divines
Tanking ones heavy infused head and divines shoulder

The rest I will decon.

I will run 5 pieces crafted on most of my builds, with a heavy chest, light waist and medium legs so I really don't need every combo of heavy/medium/light monster shoulders. Or I will simply run 5+5 medium or light. For example 5 VO + 5 Leviathan on a stamina build or 5 IM + 5 SPC on a healer.

Beardimus

Juat in case gear. Perfect traits I keep. Big infused, small divine, sharpened maybe precise. Decon the rest

Asardes

I already mentioned that I only keep the divines. The pieces with other traits don't even reach my "bank" characters. I'm talking about deconstructing whole sets in divines, simply because those are sets that are not very good. For example Automaton is overrated. For all purposes it's not better than a crafted Hunding's Rage. And sets that give major/minor [bonus] are wholly useless, and thus were the first to go.

Rune_Relic

Asardes wrote: »

I already mentioned that I only keep the divines. The pieces with other traits don't even reach my "bank" characters. I'm talking about deconstructing whole sets in divines, simply because those are sets that are not very good. For example Automaton is overrated. For all purposes it's not better than a crafted Hunding's Rage. And sets that give major/minor [bonus] are wholly useless, and thus were the first to go.

But you have to test all the sets before you can compare them.
That means you need space to compare mutiple sets before you can really decide what you want to let go.

Even then you might keep sharpened weapons now and decon the rest.
What happens when sharpened is nerfed in to the ground ?

Asardes

I won't even bother testing them. I will decon, and farm them when I want to test them, meaning when and if I have a build for them. ATM they are just dead weight because I don't have a mature stamina build, so probably the highest opportunity cost is for the stamina sets. For me it's just 2 chars that sit idle and just hold 200/200 gear. From the stamina sets the only one I consider keeping is VO, viper, red mountain and maybe leviathan. The rest look pretty weak. Also the supposed tanking sets are pretty weak as well. Knight Errand and Undaunted Bastion are pretty high on the decon list.