Need advice - (Loot)

Unseelie

I almost posted this in crafting but it reaches a bit more than that.
When your bags are filling up, do you sell everything or do you deconstruct it?
I have an alt that is just a crafter and just can't decide which is best in the long run.

SeaGtGruff

I deconstruct all gear that I'm never going to use, especially if there's a chance of getting temps or special style mats from it.

Except, on characters who are still researching traits, I'll try to keep items that can be researched.

Nemesis7884

my issue is always that i deconstruct dungeon sets only to find out that i want to use them in an upcoming chapter with changes coming....lol

elvigy

I vendor all white and green items since I have literally thousands of the stuff you get from deconning those. I decon all blue and purple, though I'm considering vendoring blue now as I have a pretty big stockpile of blue tempers now also. Dungeon sets just depend. If it has a good trait on it I'll look the set up and see what people think of it in general. If the consensus is that it's a sucky set I decon it. If it's a good set I lock it and stick it in the bank.

ArchMikem

Always decon if youre still levelling your crafting. If at 50 then just vendor everything.

geonsocal

have an idea of what sets you'd like to collect...

for a while I was holding on to all weapons and epic jewelry I collected...after a while though inventory control becomes a real pain...

if you're just starting out (maybe two years or less), decon everything, max your crafting and build up your inventory mats...

once you have enough mats then sell the gear, or decon and sell the mats themselves...

Noggin_the_Nog

I normally vendor all white and green, decon blue and purple; keeping items for their traits that alts need to research. Items with 'good' styles I'll decon all for their stones. Jewelry and glyphs I'll store for alts that are still levelling those crafts.

What is interesting - I created a new account two weeks ago with four alts. Crafter/main heading for CP level/ and two storage alts as this account was non-ESO+. Surprisingly hard as the bank is just full of crafting mats. The level 36 crafter is now craft level 50 in all crafts except jewelry and well into research. The CP170 main who has been exploring the ESO world, gathering everything she finds, has been deconning almost everything for their mats. She is now craft level 50 in three crafts - really without trying. Just by deconning.

If you are levelling a craft deconstruction is surprisingly powerful.

MaleAmazon

I have ESO+, and my system is simple, though I do not always adhere to it.

1. Fill up inventory.

2. When inventory is filled, stomp feet, cry, and scream for magic banker.

3. Fill magic bank with all but ornate equipment + glyphs since they are bank accessible when crafting (save regular objects in my own inventory).

4. When I am running out of space, teleport to a guildmate via guild roster, and then teleport to Rawl' kha (usually, sometimes just stay where I magic-teleported.).

5. Stand in front of Finedrin and /laugh.

6. Go to vendor.

7. Sort by sell info. Sell all ornate objects except jewelry, sell the cloudy poisons, sometimes sell other 'stuff' aka 'vendor trash'.

8. Fill research slots.

9. Deconstruct everything except items I will research later, gold non-jewelry items and purple + gold jewelry.

10. When I hit lvl 50 (I´ve kept deleting characters ) in a crafting line I might sell off all white objects on occasion, but usually deconstruct the rest.

("pro" (ahaha) tip: if you want to level crafting fast, use a CP 160+ alt and / or buy intricate CP160 cheap equipment from guild stores (usual cost like 150-200 gold) to deconstruct. Alchemy and provisioning can be levelled from mass creation lvl 20-ish poisons / food. Blue food is preferable but green is ok-ish. I don´t personally bother with stuff like lvl 40 recipes, just batch create once you can make lvl 20. Alchemy I level by making useless stuff with plentiful ingredients, usually making one batch, then levelling so I can make lvl 20 or so poisons, and make a new giant batch of the same poison, now at lvl 20, to jump straight to 50.)

Vildebill

I vendor everything I'm not gonna use, with the only exception of blue and purple jewelry which I deconstruct since the tempers are expensive.

barney2525

I decon EVERYTHING I can - and I always throw everything in the bank and have my master crafter to the decon-ing, because he can get the most out of the material.

If you craft your own sets, you can never have enough mats.

IMHO