Transmutation Crystal Overload

Lazurynae

Can we do something about this please??? Why in the name of all the gods can't these stack, or better yet, why must their be a limit soooo small you can't even transmute an entire set of gear?

olsborg

Hell Yes

Everest_Lionheart

I’ll take all the ones you can’t use! Have so many sets in line to be transmuted and never enough stones. That’s the plight of us newish players. Wish players in your situation could sell or trade them.

Superflytenorguy

You can bank them, you can put them on an alt, you can put them in storage at your home. If none of those are options for you, throw them away or transmute something. No need to hoard

redspecter23

ZOS implemented a limit, then allows you to bypass that limit using your inventory instead. It's sloppy, lacks elegance in design and doesn't actually accomplish anything other than clogging up an alt with a bunch of geodes. If their goal was to force one of my toons to be a geode mule, I suppose they accomplished that, but there are better ways to force inventory bloat if that's really the intention.

Alienoutlaw

would love this to happen please let us stack

dem0n1k

Superflytenorguy wrote: »

You can bank them, you can put them on an alt, you can put them in storage at your home. If none of those are options for you, throw them away or transmute something. No need to hoard

You can't bank Geodes or swap them to another character or put them in storage chests. You can only open them if you have less than 100 (non-ESO+) or 200 (ESO+) transmute stones.

My strategy as a PVPer is to hoard the 50 stone geodes & just open the uncracked geodes. Once I hit my transmute stone limit, then I transmute some garbage items to nirnhoned & decon. It's tedious inventory control but that's the system we have.

Ackwalan

Transmute stuff into nirn weapons or bloodthirsty jewelry. Then decon it and sell the mats.

VaranisArano

They used to stack. Now they don't because way back when they were introduced there was a bug where you could try to access stacked geodes and lose the crystals instead.

Xebov

Lazurynae wrote: »

Why in the name of all the gods can't these stack

They dont stack because they are containers with individual contents and containers never stack.

Lazurynae wrote: »

why must their be a limit soooo small you can't even transmute an entire set of gear?

To prevent players from just collecting big amounts of them. This way you will constantly try to get them.

Superflytenorguy wrote: »

You can bank them, you can put them on an alt, you can put them in storage at your home. If none of those are options for you, throw them away or transmute something. No need to hoard

Containers cannot be banked. They can also not be played in chests.

ayu_fever

put the 50 crystal geode in the crown store.
its time (long overdue actually).
name your price.
make it happen zos.

no pvp please and thank you.
i will cheerfully “pay to skip” any and all silly pvp nonsense.

Atherakhia

I agree with most everyone else. The sensible solution is to simply not have a limit on them. But it's worse than that. Why do they exist in the fist place? It's a pain constantly needing to open these things on every character because you lose track of them because they're sorted to the bottom of your bag, are random rewards for misc events so you don't remember even getting them, and then the fact you need 50 of them is entirely arbitrary.

Just make these things a reagent like any other crafting reagent and stored in the crafting bag. Divide everyone's stack of all they have by 50 and round up in favor of the player for a free one, and just make the transmute station need 1 to transmute.

Why is there so much poorly designed in this game with no attempt to iterate on the poor design to improve things?

VaranisArano

Atherakhia wrote: »

I agree with most everyone else. The sensible solution is to simply not have a limit on them. But it's worse than that. Why do they exist in the fist place? It's a pain constantly needing to open these things on every character because you lose track of them because they're sorted to the bottom of your bag, are random rewards for misc events so you don't remember even getting them, and then the fact you need 50 of them is entirely arbitrary.

Just make these things a reagent like any other crafting reagent and stored in the crafting bag. Divide everyone's stack of all they have by 50 and round up in favor of the player for a free one, and just make the transmute station need 1 to transmute.

Why is there so much poorly designed in this game with no attempt to iterate on the poor design to improve things?

It ain't poorly designed at all when you remember that ZOS wants you to grind the dungeon/arena/trial for your gear AND crimp your inventory/mail space so you think longingly of ESO+.

Oh, it ain't player friendly, but that doesn't mean it serves no design purpose,

Tsar_Gekkou

I have 80 on my crafter. Doesn't make sense for us to not be able to put them in storage boxes or the bank, but Zos is known for being extremely slow to adapt QoL changes.