How to stop inventory space issues in ESO

Goregrinder · November 2019

I use Alt's inventory as extra bank space since I only play maybe 3 toons at any given time, with only one of them being the current main toon, I just cold store gear I want to keep for future use, but don't want to trash yet, in their inventory to free up bank and storage container space. I just keep track of which alt will have what kind of gear.

idk · November 2019

OP does have a point. I know my inventory is filled with sets I have never used and likely will never use. I have them because there is a slight chance Zos will change something and they will be useful.

This has happened before. I had saved a plethora of axes, daggers, and other weapons from some sets that all had bad traits. Powered daggers were never good. Now we can trait change. So it has paid off in spades but it does mean my inventory is full and I often have to do inventory management.

For those of us that are pack rats it does not matter how much inventory Zos gives us. We will just fill it up.

SpacemanSpiff1 · November 2019

The hoarding is real. I tend to keep things I might use and eventually forget about them. I got the housing chests and filled them up over time. I made my own guild and filled the bank up over time.

Last night I went through my bank and guild bank posting whatever I thought might be worth a bit of gold in guild stores and vendoring/deconning stuff that wouldn't sell. It felt good to have extra space opened up, but I have lots of stuff to go through yet.

My inventory problem is me. I suspect it is the same for most players.

NordSwordnBoard · November 2019

BoP weapons and shields and other things not easy to farm get stored. Transmutation solves so many inventory issues if you let it. Hoard the stones that let you quickly farm up a bunch of bad trait gear and make it what you want. You can keep them in the mail for almost a month on a 30 day campaign reward.

I think we're due for another free ESO+ trial to entice people to spend some of that sweet gift card money after the holidays. Once that happens, I can create a bunch of space collecting those surveys in storage and putting the mats into the craft bag.

SickleCider · November 2019

Full disclosure: I do sub, so I do have the craft bag, and I have 200 bank spaces. I have 200 inventory spaces.

That being said, here are my means:

1. I only play one toon. This cuts down on a lot of the "just in case" kind of junk you accumulate.
2. Unless there are drastic changes, I have my toon's "forever gear." I picked something simple, utilitarian, and not likely to go out of style. I avoid highly niche sets. It's not BIS, but it's the swiss army knife approach to gameplay, and it'll get the job done most of the time. I was able to comfortably gold and transmute everything this way, too.
3. Unless I have a specific use in mind for a piece of gear, I sell, trade, or decon it.
4. I store excess furniture in homes that I'm not using. I really like Hall of the Lunar Champion for this, because with the way it's laid out, you can easily categorize your items. Small knickknacks get stowed in various apartments where they're easy to find.
5. I don't hold on to items that may be worth something "someday." If an item isn't worth much now, I don't see an upward growth trend in potential profit from selling something in a guild store, I consume it, find someone to give it to, or sell it to an NPC merchant.
6. I have one 30-item storage coffer. (I'm close to affording a 60 slot one with writ vouchers). I store stacks of food and potions in it. On my person I keep two stacks of any potion I use, and one stack of any food I use. I create potions and food in bulk when my coffer begins to empty.
7. Experience scrolls are consumed pretty much as soon as I get them. Instant research scrolls, if they're of any use to me, are consumed the next time I visit crafting stations. Otherwise, they are destroyed.
8. I destroy crown drinks and poisons. I prioritize crown meals over crafted food to get them out of my inventory more quickly.

Overall effect: ~130 items stored between bank and coffer, ~45 items in inventory after the post-quest cleanup. I can't say how much furniture is stowed in homes.

Raideen · November 2019

Czinczar wrote: »

Yes, it's a nightmare. And the worst thing is that it has been intended that way, to frustrate players into buying eso+ each month. Instead of making you want to buy something because it's good, or cool or whatever, they decided to go the "I FRUSTRATE YOU" way. I am sure many players have a love/hate relationship with the game.

^ quoted for truth.

Kalik_Gold · November 2019

In most MMO's we only had access to 1 guild. Since ESO gave us 5 guilds. I use 2 of the 5 as personal storage banks, 1000 slots.

I used to have ESO+ and 1 free guild bank (for BOE gear, motifs, style pages), but since cancelling ESO+, I needed a 2nd bank just for craft items.

Remaining 3 guilds, will be PvE, PvP, and Trade.

PrimusNephilim · November 2019

LuxLunae wrote: »

Stop hoarding.

Noooooo......I can't help it

wolfie1.0. · November 2019

The simple solution for ZOS would be to increase the gear lvl cap. Making all of those co 160 sets out of date and under powered. Filled immediately by a nerf to all classes except 1 and all races except 1 those will be both buffed. Then ZOS will then introduce flying combat, mounted combat, and submarines.

Taleof2Cities · November 2019

wtlonewolf20 wrote: »

The simple solution for ZOS would be to increase the gear lvl cap. Making all of those co 160 sets out of date and under powered. Filled immediately by a nerf to all classes except 1 and all races except 1 those will be both buffed. Then ZOS will then introduce flying combat, mounted combat, and submarines.

Here’s another insightful for you ...

Czinczar · November 2019

I just created a guild for myself just for the bank, and of course I need 10 players, so if you want to do the same and create a guild just for the bank, we can exchange the favor. I join yours, you join mine.Contact me. PC EU.

idk · November 2019

Czinczar wrote: »

I just created a guild for myself just for the bank, and of course I need 10 players, so if you want to do the same and create a guild just for the bank, we can exchange the favor. I join yours, you join mine.Contact me. PC EU.

10 alts created during the trial week. I expect that can be done but do not know for certain.

vibeborn · November 2019

I tend to hoard, even with ESO+. I'm glad there are NPCs willing to buy my stuff no matter how bad the stuff is
(also some of the things that aren't sellable should be)

Czinczar · November 2019

idk wrote: »

Czinczar wrote: »

I just created a guild for myself just for the bank, and of course I need 10 players, so if you want to do the same and create a guild just for the bank, we can exchange the favor. I join yours, you join mine.Contact me. PC EU.

10 alts created during the trial week. I expect that can be done but do not know for certain.

Yes I know, but it's too late.

Michae · November 2019

Or you know, you can just be reasonable. I've been playing since 2016 and I haven't even maxed out bank space
I only recently upped it from 300 to 400. I have alts, but none of them are mules, nor do they have any bag upgrades. I collect daily stuff and keep it. So what gives?

lagrue · November 2019

Let me break this down:
200 slots from bag per character for a maximum of (200x18) = 3600 slots
5 from the new pet, per character for a maximum of (5x18) = 90 slots
240 from the bank - with eso plus 480
360 slots from coffers

So with a potential 4530 slots you still have inventory management issues? Then yes, the issue is you hoarding.

I know OP was trying to be tongue and cheek, but honestly... this is it right here, is 100% hoarding issues.

Asardes · November 2019

The first few months all gold that I got in game was invested in maxing out bank and bag space. And back then - October 2015, one year before One Tamriel - the game wasn't scaled, so gold was much harder to come by. I created alts relatively quickly, at first to act just as storage, till I got their riding skill up. All of of my currently active characters started out like "bank characters", but in time I got time to level them, and transfer the burden to newer ones. When I finally decided to subscribe, after almost 2 years of playing - late August 2017 - I was able to activate much more characters since the ones holding surplus materials got freed up.

I still have 1 auxiliary for 2 actives. Activating more than what I 2 characters of each class doesn't make much sense, so the 3rd one becomes auxiliary. Those 2 characters cover all 3 roles for PvE and multiple PvP builds, since they have 370+ skill points each and multiple sets of gear. 4 of the 6 auxiliary ones mostly store BoP gear from dungeons or trials I haven't decided if I will use including monster heads in all 3 weights, impenetrable, divines, sometimes infused/sturdy for tank sets, arena weapons in good traits (Maelstrom, Master, Asylum) and a few dozen uncracked 50 crystal geodes that I hold just in case I need to transmute something quickly in the future - normally I use what I get in smaller increments from various other activities - RFTW, trials, pledges, LB rewards etc. This has saved me a lot of time, since when I gear up a new character or build for an existing one I just dive into that inventory and grab what I need, rarely do I need to craft or farm/transmute a new piece, unless it's a newly introduced set.

The 5th holds training gear I use to level new characters - I've been reusing the same sets since 2016 - as well as gold jewelry I get from The Golden and I resell after 6 months or more for maximum profit; ex. I re-sold a full set of gold Transmutation jewelry for 1.5M about 9 months after I had bought them during the Mayhem event. The 6th auxiliary character holds my survey maps since there are only 150 of them in total, and the identical ones stack - by the time I pick them up I have 15-20 stacked of the respective type, so grabbing them is far more efficient than if they were singles.

Bank and chest space is mostly filled with stuff I plan to use or resell later, like seasonal motifs & recipes and master writs; ex. I've been able to resell the Dubious Camoran Throne recipes 2 months before the next Jester's Festival for 130K a piece. Any surplus ornaments or furniture for housing I've just "dumped" in one of the houses I don't use. For example the whole lot of furniture items that dropped during Witches Festival (totems, branches, logs, stacks of hay, pumpkins etc.) I've made into a hut and it looks kinda nice. My goal is to fill all categories of furniture so I get the respective achievements without spending much gold on it. After that much of what's bad will be disposed off in one way or another.

So I have no problems with storage because I don't hold onto junk and I planned well in advance. I don't consider myself a "hoarder" because hoarding implies you literally pick up everything and hold on to it without any clear plans to use it in the future.

vamp_emily · November 2019

I have at least 30 characters full of inventory, and 3 dead guilds full of inventory. I'm always having to sell all my pvp rewards to the merchant because I have no trade guild or any storage left.

Asardes · November 2019

vamp_emily wrote: »

I have at least 30 characters full of inventory, and 3 dead guilds full of inventory. I'm always having to sell all my pvp rewards to the merchant because I have no trade guild or any storage left.

I usually decon those since the style item and purple upgrade is usually more valuable than the NPC sale value. Unless it's something valuable such as Spell Stragegist inferno

isailandshootub17_ESO · December 2019

I just purchased Elsweyr after an absence of about a year. After logging into a few characters to reveal the mess of gear, I remember why I stopped playing. While ESO is beautiful in many respects, it is too clunky to make gear grinding much fun. Perhaps I'll take the minimalist approach of the OP... Or more likely I'll just stop playing again.

idk · December 2019

Czinczar wrote: »

idk wrote: »

Czinczar wrote: »

I just created a guild for myself just for the bank, and of course I need 10 players, so if you want to do the same and create a guild just for the bank, we can exchange the favor. I join yours, you join mine.Contact me. PC EU.

10 alts created during the trial week. I expect that can be done but do not know for certain.

Yes I know, but it's too late.

The free trial will return.

Major_Lag · December 2019

lagrue wrote: »

Let me break this down:
200 slots from bag per character for a maximum of (200x18) = 3600 slots
60 from mount per character for a maximum of (60 x 18) = 1080
5 from the new pet, per character for a maximum of (5x18) = 90 slots
240 from the bank - with eso plus 480
360 slots from coffers

Your math is off, these 60 slots per character are already included in the 200 bag slots from the line above.

idk wrote: »

10 alts created during the trial week. I expect that can be done but do not know for certain.

It works perfectly fine. 9 alts, actually - no need for the 10th.

Of course the alt accounts will go inactive as soon as the free trial ends, but that does not prevent the guild banks from functioning normally.
As far as the guilds are concerned, members with inactive accounts are still valid members

You can also give the guilds wonky names and use that for a tabard, if you want to display a silly message in your nameplate, or a custom pseudo-title

nryerson1025 · December 2019

Asardes wrote: »

molecule wrote: »

Make siege weapons stack

Yep, they made camps stack but not sieges, even if they are of the same type and repair state. That's clearly inconsistent.

siege weapons have individual health bars--thats why they say they cant stack them. a siege bag though, would be nice

Gythral · December 2019

Use it or get rid of it
- ZOS will nerf anything you collect today, for the next shiny next patch anyway!

Cirantille · December 2019

I use the same sets on my stam and mag characters so never had problem with inventory

Tigerseye · December 2019

So, I have been thinking about this and I think, unless they add significant extra bag space (i.e. to a single char's bags) and/or bank space, I am going to have to reconsider my options, here.

This 5 extra slots per char thing, via a pet (however cute!), is simply not going to work, for me.

I don't log alts (or want to log alts) very often and so, don't regard storing things on them as an acceptable solution.

What with the crashes and poor server performance, I spend more than enough time staring at loading screens as it is, thanks.

Especially as I consistently pay for ESO+ and I have paid for other stuff along the way (including some storage space), I don't feel I should then allow myself to become permanently stuck in a situation where I am constantly running out of space and having to zone home to decon and sell, every 5 mins.

I should have enough room, by now, without having to sell/decon/destroy/send to alts everything I get the moment I get it.

Tigerseye · December 2019

belial5221_ESO wrote: »

Tigerseye wrote: »

I hate storage chests.

Don't look great, don't hold much, fill up your houses, got to try to remember which one you put stuff in...

They're rubbish.

They should have made a single wall safe, or chest, you could add capacity to, gradually - as opposed to multiple chests which hold very little.

You can rename the coffers,so you know what is in there.

Yeah, I know, but unless you don't ever have more than one trunk with, say, motifs in it, you still have to try to remember which motif is in which motif trunk and where that trunk is, in that house and you still have to fill your houses with less than beautiful trunks and travel to your houses to check them.

buttaface · December 2019

IMO this is a player issue and not a game issue. ESO gives you lots of options to increase storage space to a reasonable degree. If you want an unreasonable amount of storage, that's on you.

In an effort to make this a positive post, some tips to make inventory management easier in ESO.

1. Max out the number of available characters you have access to from the base game or care to buy. Dedicate some of these as mules towards specialized purposes. For example, one holds monster sets, one holds mats, one holds world drops that are upgraded to gold, weapons, jewelry get preference. If you insist on actually -playing- a large number of characters such that they are always full of their own stuff, that's your choice, not a game failing. On the mules, max mount bags before speed and stamina. You don't have to max their personal bags to the most expensive degree, but do upgrade them as able. Spend gold on upgrading inventory before spending it on anything else. You almost never need a gold ring from the golden vendor as much as you will need more space.

2. Never store anything you can buy cheaply off a vendor or guild trader when you need it, and especially never store anything the game gives you for free just for playing. The former include lockpicks, basic trait materials, etc. The latter include most provisioning mats, recipes, soul shards, treasure maps, basic pots, basic food and a whole host of other things.

3. Maybe most importantly, minimize "might and could," "hope and pray" items in a game you might not even be playing when and IF the hopes and prayers materialize in the game. "That could get buffed, I may use that on a character one day, if I do another crafter one day those scrolls could come in handy, if I ever wanted to do that build, this very NICHE set could come in handy." You get the idea. If an item isn't expensively upgraded, and you don't have plans to use it on a character NOW, especially if it could be reobtained easily, decon.

4. Farm ALL the writ/crown chests, that's 360 extra slots. Don't have time to farm whatever is necessary to get those? but do have time to sort and store a bunch of stuff you aren't using and hoping and praying to use one day? No sympathy.

5. Delete all nonstackable stuff like siege equipment, furnishings you aren't using that aren't rare or very pricey. You can buy all but the few pricey ones dirt cheap off guild traders or PvP vendors as you need them.

6. For mats and consumable crafted items you use, don't store more than one stack (other than basic mats like wood/leather/iron). When you need another, make -one- more stack. If you have mats that could be turned into something you will use -soon- that takes up less space, do that.

7. Don't store things like costumes/disguises that take up space unless you regularly use them. The game will end up giving you plenty of costumes that take up no inventory.

8. If you are storing things that may be valuable but you aren't sure, go to the Tamriel Trade Center site and find out. If they turn out not to be very valuable, ditch.

Much more, that's enough, will wager if people having inventory problems did these things, other than those trying to run a writ assembly line without ESO+, storage problems would disappear. There's nothing wrong with being a hoarder in games, but being a hoarder and then blaming the game for that is silly.

wolfie1.0. · December 2019

Tigerseye wrote: »

So, I have been thinking about this and I think, unless they add significant extra bag space (i.e. to a single char's bags) and/or bank space, I am going to have to reconsider my options, here.

This 5 extra slots per char thing, via a pet (however cute!), is simply not going to work, for me.

I don't log alts (or want to log alts) very often and so, don't regard storing things on them as an acceptable solution.

What with the crashes and poor server performance, I spend more than enough time staring at loading screens as it is, thanks.

Especially as I consistently pay for ESO+ and I have paid for other stuff along the way (including some storage space), I don't feel I should then allow myself to become permanently stuck in a situation where I am constantly running out of space and having to zone home to decon and sell, every 5 mins.

I should have enough room, by now, without having to sell/decon/destroy/send to alts everything I get the moment I get it.

If you refuse to use mules or alternate accounts then I dont know what to tell you. There are two types of progression styles in most MMOs. Vertical and horizontal. Vertical progression mostly involves ever increasing lvl caps and stat caps on gear requiring grinding new mats and new lvls gear. Horizontal is about keeping gear lvls flat after a certain point but instead increasing the gear options. Vertical is a grind fest for lvls and horizontal is a grind fest for gear. And horizontal is what eso has. Your ALWAYs going to have inventory issues with horizontal progression model and it's up to the player to decide whet to keep and what to trash. Especially with the bound system.

But like I said earlier Zos could go back to vertical progression and increase the gear lvl cap. And then all your gear would be outdated and you can trash it all and start over. Problem solved.

Tigerseye · December 2019

^ It's not really about gear, with me - I've pretty much of given up on all that.

It's more about furnishings, motifs, crafting stuff (alchemy potions etc.), fragments of this and that and just general stuff piling up.