How to manage space without eso+?

Maxdevil

Hi all I’m always stuck with my inventory space and bank space(I have 120 bank space and 120inventory space). I have now the habit to destruct many of my mats, gear and some useless thing. I’m actually trying to deposit all my mats in my bank but there’s too many. Any tips to manage my inventory/bank

kongkim

If you play on PC you can get a Add-on that auto add all mats to your bank and free up space That helps a lot.

coop500

You can get storage boxes from Telvar merchants or writ merchants, they can hold 30 or 60 depending on which you buy and I think there's 3 of each? So if you buy them all you get a total of 270 more slots.

You can also try to get a private guild bank, just make a new guild, make sure to set the permissions so that you're the only one who can withdraw stuff from the bank, then go to one of the starter zones and invite anybody who looks new. (Avoid people with fancy mounts/outfits/pets.) Get around 13-15 to join, some will leave and you only need to keep 9 people to keep the guild bank open. This is best done during free to play weekends but I have done it without. I noticed a lot of new peeps seem to quit for whatever reason but their account stays in your guild, thus keeping the bank open.

This gives you 500 free slots.

With these two combined you'll never need ESO+, sure it will be a little more time consuming but it's an alternative to real money.

ankeor

I have 9 chars with all having 200 inv space, 240 bank space, all the coffers (360 space combined) and a personal guild for the guild bank with 500 space. So in total I have 2900 space. If you can get that much space you can manage your inventories.

Sharee

Stop trying to collect all material types at once.

demendred

Sharee wrote: »

Stop trying to collect all material types at once.

Stop telling people what they should do.

AdamskiAlders

Alts, Alts are your best friends in this regard. Having only got ESO+ for the events recently(Oct-now), I was without it since Day 1 Launch on Xbox and the inventory management was difficult at first. All you need is Max inventory space, max bank space and then a couple of Alts to take things out of the bank and carry for you, they start with 60 free spots each so they're quite handy. Hell some of mine are still sitting there holding things for me and maybe doing the odd Daily Writ here and there.

Now granted with no mods or add-ons on the Xbox it usually takes more time to manage inventory but once you get into the routine it's a lot quicker and easier and you can plan ahead a bit more when it comes to what weapons, armour and materials you'd like to hold back or stock up on. Don't let anybody tell you that you NEED ESO+, you don't, you just have to work a tad smarter is all.

ankeor

demendred wrote: »

Sharee wrote: »

Stop trying to collect all material types at once.

Stop telling people what they should do.

Stop stopping people

Juju_beans

I tried the alt route when I first started playing. No eso+. But I quickly realized that I wanted to craft and there were just too many different types of mats that I would need for both gear, food and furniture.
After 1 week I subbed.

Now if you don't plan to craft (gear/furniture) then it might be easier to juggle those alts.

Davor

AdamskiAlders wrote: »

Don't let anybody tell you that you NEED ESO+, you don't, you just have to work a tad smarter is all.

I am not saying you are wrong at all, but it does go both ways. Other people try and say DON'T get ESO+ for what ever their agenda is. I tried that way once, but for me, and only ME, doing all that work to save 50 cents a day, is not worth it. Now I haven't played much so it could be $5 a day, but still, I don't want to work that hard to save little money. For me, I rather play instead of doing the inventory management game.

Now it's a different story if the person all of a sudden doesn't have the funds to spare, lost job, car broke down, what ever you have no choice but not to play without ESO+ but if I have the funds to spare, I will get ESO+ since doing all that work is just not worth it to ME.

Now for ME, to play without ESO+ hurts. I can't play my style. So if you play without ESO+, just like how Fallout 76 is, you can't play the same as in the other games. You HAVE to change your play style if you don't want to do the work as others have suggested.

So for me, it's like, ok no more all my Characters do everything, now they have to specialize. One will be a crater, while another will be a food maker. So it's only gather what that character will would do and gather just what they need. Oh, I am a chef, well I don't need those runes or that armor/weapon to deconstruct. Once I have ESO+ all bets are off and I collect and horde everything, but if I play without ESO+ I have to change my play style since for me, I am thinking to myself "why am I doing all this work to just save 50 cents."?

Kadoin

No clue, my space is always maxed and it gets worse every patch. I spend more time doing inventory management than playing the game!

Inarre

A good trading guild helps so you can get rid of crafting supplies you don't plan on using. That is the biggest inventory sink in the game and if you eat one or two kinds of food you don't need 9000 kinds of drink ingredients in your bag.

Nerouyn

Designate a few alts for particular mats and use one of the inventory manager addons.

https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info753-BankManagerRevived.html

They can be configured to dump all mats into the bank on characters you play. Then you log in your mules and suck all of the mats out. And keep your bank as empty as possible otherwise.

Leocaran

Maxdevil wrote: »

I have 120 bank space and 120inventory space

The first thing ofc is to get 240 bank space and 200 inventory. You need a lot of gold for that, though. Well, in time you'd get that.
Ah, yes. If you are new, you may not know. When you buy horse upgrades 'capacity' or how it's called (third trait) increases inventory limit for this character. So there's 60 slots for a character. Very intuitive feature.

VaranisArano

So the way I've done it takes a lot of gold and time and effort.

1. Make Gold or Buy Crowns. Seriously. Every one of the long-term solutions to storage issues requires gold, lots of gold. Whether you pay with gold or trade gold for crown gifts, it will take gold. I like to farm mats so I sold mats and alchemy reagents to make my fortune.
I don't recommend buying Crowns. If you do, subscribing is probably the more cost-effective solution.

2. Make Mule characters. This can be a short-term and longterm solution where you make an extra character who's sole purpose is to hold your extra stuff. I have one who holds dungeon sets I don't use, but might become meta again, and I really don't want to re-farm for the gear.

3. Max your Bank space, inventory slots, and riding lesson carrying capacity. This will take gold, crowns, or gold-for-crown gifts.

4. Get Housing storage containers for crafting writ vouchers, Tel Var stones, or Crown Store purchases/gifts. Note that crafting writ vouchers require a maxed crafting character and an achievement from doing 100 master writs to buy. Tel Var stones requires owning the Imperial City DLC.

Finally, when an free ESO+ event happens, buy ALL the crafting mats you need to last you for several months at least and stock up in the Crafting Bag while you have it. Then, you don't have to store as many crafting mats in the in between times if you don't want to.

If this all looks like a lot, well, it is. I've been playing for several years and have a lot of gold, so I've been buy my way towards the sort of ease of inventory management that ESO+ subscribers get through the Crafting Bag and extra Bank space. Its entirely up to you if that is worth it.

Lyserus

guild bank for your own
Use it to to store any materials except ingot/hide/cloth. Also any unbound gear, furniture etc. The general rule is throw in anything you don't use/acquire all the time to guild bank due to their large place but low accessbility

House storage
Use it to store bound items especially dungeon gears. House storage also have low accessbility, so put those items that you don't need all the time in there, but the plus side of house storage is able to store bound items

Bank
Important items you often need and those items you aquire all the time （ores, soul gem for example）. It has the highest accessbility since it's account wide and also can be summoned with banker assistant

Character
Try not to store anything here because you will get many stuff when playing, only keep the essentials （soul gem, lockpick, food etc）. I do not recommend alt character for storage because access them is a pain, and they don't really offer that much without bag upgrade

twofaced

Fuzzy Craftbag, My Backpack, Unlucky Cook and several others are names of my alts. In a long run they keep all sh*t, but in a short run, use Dustman and Bank Assistant addons, level different crafting lines on different chars and just sell all that junk sets from dungeons. Have 2k inventory space total and it's not even close to what you actually need.

eklhaftb16_ESO

In addition to what everybody said (different mules for different mats, and so on): note that low level materials are mostly worth only their content of tempers / resins / tannins. You may want to max your Metal Extraction / Wood Extraction / Unraveling passives as soon as possible, refine those materials (Jute, Iron, Maple and such) and stash only the blue, purple and gold tempers / resins / tannins while vendoring the rest of the stuff (it's not even worth auctioning many of them, as they auction for the vendor price anyway).

After refining your materials or deconstructing your gear, don't save those basic trait materials - they have shiny icons, but they're effectively worthless and they only clog your storage. On the other hand, if you intend to do crafting writs in the future, it may be worth saving those basic style materials - like a stack of each or so. When doing writs daily on multiple characters, you will run out of them fairly quickly and will be forced to buy more (as they don't drop anywhere anymore, they come only from deconstructing gear or from crafting vendors).

EDIT: one more thing. Provisioning is a huge storage space hog without ESO+. There's an awful lot of recipes and just as much different provisioning materials. It's more hassle than it is worth, unless you're really into cooking. If you're not into cooking, just concentrate on getting your characters to provisioning level 50 (for gourmand and connoisseur passives), which that can be done using a bunch of basic ingredients.

Thoragaal

Maxdevil wrote: »

Hi all I’m always stuck with my inventory space and bank space(I have 120 bank space and 120inventory space). I have now the habit to destruct many of my mats, gear and some useless thing. I’m actually trying to deposit all my mats in my bank but there’s too many. Any tips to manage my inventory/bank

I have 11 different characters, every character is responsible for certain types of gear / mats and every character has maxed out it's inventory. I have a guild bank all to myself (the others in that guild has quit a looong time ago).
Every now and then we have a free trial period of ESO+ where I get to empty all my mats into the craft bag.
It's still annoying having to micro manage everything like this, but it works even though I still struggle with inventory space.

Edit: And I got the coffers filled up already.

Vapirko

Sell what you don’t need or is junk in guild stores and to merchants and use the money to buy mats when you need them. Try and max out bank and inventory space. Only keep expensive resources like gold upgrade items and such.

Verbal_Earthworm

As far as I can ascertain you should leave a single worthless item in chests and nodes to passively aggressively troll the eso+ players.

Tandor

demendred wrote: »

Sharee wrote: »

Stop trying to collect all material types at once.

Stop telling people what they should do.

He wasn't, he was giving an answer to the question "Any tips to manage my inventory/bank".

Katheriah

Pro tip: Get ESO+

Kiralyn2000

The basic level things are:
- increase your bank space
- make mule characters to hold extra stuff
- get a mount and start training pack space. You can get another 60 spaces on your character that way. Cheaper and slower than buying character bag increases

(my characters have 160-170 space typically, including the mount.)

Maxdevil

coop500 wrote: »

You can get storage boxes from Telvar merchants or writ merchants, they can hold 30 or 60 depending on which you buy and I think there's 3 of each? So if you buy them all you get a total of 270 more slots.

You can also try to get a private guild bank, just make a new guild, make sure to set the permissions so that you're the only one who can withdraw stuff from the bank, then go to one of the starter zones and invite anybody who looks new. (Avoid people with fancy mounts/outfits/pets.) Get around 13-15 to join, some will leave and you only need to keep 9 people to keep the guild bank open. This is best done during free to play weekends but I have done it without. I noticed a lot of new peeps seem to quit for whatever reason but their account stays in your guild, thus keeping the bank open.

This gives you 500 free slots.

With these two combined you'll never need ESO+, sure it will be a little more time consuming but it's an alternative to real money.

Yes a guild bank with offline noob would be a great option but do I need to send message to them like hey join my guild or just invite them without messaging them.

Jolipinator

Complain about racial passives until ZOS reacts.

coop500

Maxdevil wrote: »

coop500 wrote: »

You can get storage boxes from Telvar merchants or writ merchants, they can hold 30 or 60 depending on which you buy and I think there's 3 of each? So if you buy them all you get a total of 270 more slots.

You can also try to get a private guild bank, just make a new guild, make sure to set the permissions so that you're the only one who can withdraw stuff from the bank, then go to one of the starter zones and invite anybody who looks new. (Avoid people with fancy mounts/outfits/pets.) Get around 13-15 to join, some will leave and you only need to keep 9 people to keep the guild bank open. This is best done during free to play weekends but I have done it without. I noticed a lot of new peeps seem to quit for whatever reason but their account stays in your guild, thus keeping the bank open.

This gives you 500 free slots.

With these two combined you'll never need ESO+, sure it will be a little more time consuming but it's an alternative to real money.

Yes a guild bank with offline noob would be a great option but do I need to send message to them like hey join my guild or just invite them without messaging them.

I just invite them, never speak to them lol, unless they're asking simple advice then maybe I'll answer.

kypranb14_ESO

Buy ESO+

coop500

kypranb14_ESO wrote: »

Buy ESO+

Katheriah wrote: »

Pro tip: Get ESO+

This is why ESO+ers need to stop telling non-ESO+ers what to do

Maxdevil

Lol

Tabbycat

Verbal_Earthworm wrote: »

As far as I can ascertain you should leave a single worthless item in chests and nodes to passively aggressively troll the eso+ players.

Must collect all the things. All of them!

Thanks to ESO+ I have space for it.