Free ESO+ Trial: Crafting bag for event

damdamjel

What happens to the crafting bag when eso+ trial expires? if they exceed max cap of my inventory/bank? will they be emailed? or will they remain in my inventory over the cap?

VaranisArano

One the trial ends, everything stays in the crafting bag, but you can't deposit anything more into it. When you craft, things are taken out of your crafting bag first, then your bank/inventory.

So its a great time to stock up on all your crafting supplies for the next half a year or so, but you'll go right back to the old inventory management issues once its over.

Nestor

Any stuff in the bag stays in the bag. You just can't add new to it after the event. So, yes this is way to store all those extra mats that you probably won't use for a while.

IIRC, when you go to craft, it pulls from inventory first then the crafting bag if your not subbed. It pulls from Craft Bag

damdamjel

thanks for the quick response guys!

Kiralyn2000

Nestor wrote: »

IIRC, when you go to craft, it pulls from inventory first then the crafting bag if your not subbed.

Nope. It pulls from the craft bag first, so that stuff gradually builds up in your inventory. Gotta give some encouragement to re-sub..


You can also decorate your houses up to double, the stuff remains in place after ESO+ goes away. You can move it around, but you can't place anything new until you pick up enough stuff to go back under the usual furniture limit.

I'd imagine that double transmute stones and double bank work the same way - the things "over the limit" remain, but you can't add anything new until you're back below.

Nestor

Kiralyn2000 wrote: »

Nestor wrote: »

IIRC, when you go to craft, it pulls from inventory first then the crafting bag if your not subbed.

Nope. It pulls from the craft bag first, so that stuff gradually builds up in your inventory. Gotta give some encouragement to re-sub..

@Kiralyn2000

Thank you I have never been unsubbed in the game. Well, there were those two weeks in 2014 and a credit card snafu....

Aebaradath

Better get your hoarding game on.

Violynne

damdamjel wrote: »

What happens to the crafting bag when eso+ trial expires?

It still exists, but you can no longer deposit anything in it.

if they exceed max cap of my inventory/bank?

No, the items stay in the bag. More on this in a bit.

will they be emailed?

Nope.

or will they remain in my inventory over the cap?

They remain in the bag, but there's a downside to this people need to understand and it can really screw up your current bag space if you're not careful!

Let's assume you have items in the craft bag, but close your sub. When you craft items, they're pulled from the bag first. Anything else you add goes into your inventory, but will not be removed if the items are in your craft bag!

For example: you have 100 iron ingots in the craft bag, and farm more iron ore. When you refine them into 10 more ingots, the other iron ingots go into your inventory.

When you craft items, they're removed from the bag first, meaning you'll be storing those other 10 ingots until the 100 in the craft bag are used first.

This can be extremely frustrating if you farm materials because you'll have duplicates until the bag is emptied.

Also, the 200 extra spaces you get with ESO+ in the bank will also be removed. Anything over goes back into your inventory bag. If you don't have space, well, you lose the items.

If you intend to (ab)use the ESO+ subscription just to get the crates, I highly recommend you don't farm any new mats for the next 30 days.

You'll hate life on the 31st.

Take this from experience.

DaveMoeDee

Violynne wrote: »

damdamjel wrote: »

What happens to the crafting bag when eso+ trial expires?

It still exists, but you can no longer deposit anything in it.

if they exceed max cap of my inventory/bank?

No, the items stay in the bag. More on this in a bit.

will they be emailed?

Nope.

or will they remain in my inventory over the cap?

They remain in the bag, but there's a downside to this people need to understand and it can really screw up your current bag space if you're not careful!

Let's assume you have items in the craft bag, but close your sub. When you craft items, they're pulled from the bag first. Anything else you add goes into your inventory, but will not be removed if the items are in your craft bag!

For example: you have 100 iron ingots in the craft bag, and farm more iron ore. When you refine them into 10 more ingots, the other iron ingots go into your inventory.

When you craft items, they're removed from the bag first, meaning you'll be storing those other 10 ingots until the 100 in the craft bag are used first.

This can be extremely frustrating if you farm materials because you'll have duplicates until the bag is emptied.

Also, the 200 extra spaces you get with ESO+ in the bank will also be removed. Anything over goes back into your inventory bag. If you don't have space, well, you lose the items.

If you intend to (ab)use the ESO+ subscription just to get the crates, I highly recommend you don't farm any new mats for the next 30 days.

You'll hate life on the 31st.

Take this from experience.

The crafting bag remains good for rare style items. It also has great value when, like me, you have thousands of certain mats. That would be a large stack.

But, yeah, you need to sell new mats to get them out of your inventory since things like writs and other crafting will always pull from bag.

I haven't lost bank items when my ESO+ has expired. They just stay in the bank until you remove them. I had to spend a day just clearing out bank space to get it below 200 to be able to use my bank again.

Violynne

DaveMoeDee wrote: »

The crafting bag remains good for rare style items. It also has great value when, like me, you have thousands of certain mats. That would be a large stack.

Indeed. I left the game 10 months ago and had thousands upon thousands of stuff in my bag. When I realized how little space my new alt had, it became a nightmare to manage inventory that would never deplete (and I wasn't going to stop farming).

There was only one choice for me upon my return:
"Yes, I accept the Terms of Conditions and wholly honor to give up my newborn children to the Altar of ZoS for the ESO+ subscription and all its benefits."

Kiralyn2000

Eh, I do well enough at the moment, using the free week of ESO+ to restock my craft bag. I just do regular inventory management in between to keep most of the crafting stuff I find til the next time. Yes, I'm getting back hundreds of inventory spaces between my bank, storage chests, and 8 characters this week.

I managed all the junk that I got from 48 crafting writs/day & all the anniversary boxes by just throwing out solvents & common provisioning mats. Everything else, I managed to find space for.


Of course, I don't play a lot/every day, except for events. If I did, I'd likely sub again. (I feel like I will when Summerset comes out, what with all the jewelry mats/etc)

edit: and now I have to do 90+ surveys this week.

Colecovision

Think you might fish? Bait can be used right from the bag, but bait in the bank can’t. It’s different than crafting material. Fill the bag while you have it.