Do we need an account-wide Consumables Bag? I think it's time

Playnice

Let's face it, our inventory space is cluttered and we spend lots of time playing the inventory minigame. For quality of life, give us a "Consumables Bag" (similar in function to the existing crafting bag) where we can store all our potions, food, drink, poisons, soul gems, lockpicks, repair kits etc. Right now we are just splitting stacks and spreading the same items across all characters. Why would we ever want to have separate consumable inventories on each character to carry the same items? It's a huge waste of space and creates unnecessary clutter.

Katheriah

If they would add this to ESO+ I would renew it for life, no matter how hard they screw up the g ame.

Blinx

edited because I had a little too much Rislav's Righteous Red Kvass at the time of posting, and obvioudly wasn't thinking clearly..

Wolf_Eye

Playnice wrote: »

Let's face it, our inventory space is cluttered and we spend lots of time playing the inventory minigame. For quality of life, give us a "Consumables Bag" (similar in function to the existing crafting bag) where we can store all our potions, food, drink, poisons, soul gems, lockpicks, repair kits etc. Right now we are just splitting stacks and spreading the same items across all characters. Why would we ever want to have separate consumable inventories on each character to carry the same items? It's a huge waste of space and creates unnecessary clutter.

I think that would be fantastic. I'm tired of having to move things around or remember which of my alts has extra lockpicks/soul gems and which might still need some.

UnabashedlyHonest

...not as bad as we need a siege wheel for PvP.

BloodyStigmata

Honestly what do you all have in your inventories that you can't spare room for a few stacks of potions and food?

HedgeHugger

UnabashedlyHonest wrote: »

...not as bad as we need a siege wheel for PvP.

This....
Even set it as the default wheel when in PvP areas.

merpins

not as bad as we need a bottomless bag for housing furniture.

tomofhyrule

Blinx wrote: »

while they're at it, an alchemy bag would be nice too!, I stopped doing provisioning, and alchemy writs, way too many ingredients, I only keep items I know I'm going to need for my own personal use.

...this is a thing with ESO+

The craft bag holds all alchemy and provisioning mats, along with those for blacksmithing, clothing, woodworking, enchanting, and jewelry crafting. You cna even just go for the free trials every so often, dump your mats in the craft bag, and then just use those until the next trial.

ArchangelIsraphel

If I can stuff all my siege engines in this bag along with the other consumables, you have my full support.

Honestly what do you all have in your inventories that you can't spare room for a few stacks of potions and food?

Siege engines. Stacks of human skulls. The blood of my enemies. Motifs to make me look gorgeous in battle and fluffy pillows to take a nap.

Don't judge me. >:{

RodneyRegis

Just have whole inventory account-wide.

Elder Scrolls Inventory Online is getting old, especially with no particular delineation between mag and stam sets/weapons any more.

ArchangelIsraphel

RodneyRegis wrote: »

Just have whole inventory account-wide.

Elder Scrolls Inventory Online is getting old, especially with no particular delineation between mag and stam sets/weapons any more.

Eh, I'd prefer not to have this to be honest. Consumables being account wide, sure, but I want my gear sets and drops separate. I don't want to see the 10 billion sales items stored on my mule in my mains inventory, or to have to shuffle through all that.

Tandor

We don't need anything else to be made account-wide, the concessions have gone too far in that direction already.

Kiralyn2000

...consumables? Why? There are many other categories of items that are much larger/take up much more space.
(and I definitely don't need it to be account-wide, given that different characters use different potions & food. Please don't make my Mag characters have to scroll past Stam food to figure out what to eat.)

RodneyRegis wrote: »

Just have whole inventory account-wide.

And turn my 300 (or is it 200?) slots per character into how many slots, then? Do you really want to have to sort through 4000+ inventory because you have 18 characters? (Or worse, have zos cut down the total inventory to something much smaller because something, something, excuses?)

Plus again - I'd rather not mix up my consumables/etc between characters of different crafting tiers, levels, factions, builds, etc.

EF321

BloodyStigmata wrote: »

Honestly what do you all have in your inventories that you can't spare room for a few stacks of potions and food?

Sets. A lot of sets.

TaSheen

I have no need for this personally. I wouldn't buy it (because it would likely be crown store only). And I would hope if they "unkindly" added it to each account for free there would be a way to disable it completely. I don't need any more stuff like that, and consumables don't take up enough space in inventory to be a problem for me.

Blinx

tomofhyrule wrote: »

Blinx wrote: »

while they're at it, an alchemy bag would be nice too!, I stopped doing provisioning, and alchemy writs, way too many ingredients, I only keep items I know I'm going to need for my own personal use.

...this is a thing with ESO+

The craft bag holds all alchemy and provisioning mats, along with those for blacksmithing, clothing, woodworking, enchanting, and jewelry crafting. You cna even just go for the free trials every so often, dump your mats in the craft bag, and then just use those until the next trial.

yea you right, I had one of those moments when I posted that, I let mine lapse in August

disintegr8

Seriously, inventory issues in the current world of ESO?

Try going back to the pre transmute and 'sticker book' world, where we had to keep every set piece, often multiple with differing traits, of any overworld set we may ever want to use because we couldn't transmute or re-create them on a whim.

There's a reason I have 15 characters on my main account with maxed out inventory slots, multiple alt accounts and guild banks. Trust me, it wasn't all done for fun.

bmnoble

I don't see a need for it personally.

200 soul gems
200 potions
200 food
200 lockpicks
200 grand repair kits
200 empty soul gems to fill as your doing stuff
1000 poisons, which if your using are likely applied to slots on the character to override the enchantments

What that's maybe 7 inventory slots on a character taken up maybe a bit more if you want a few variety's of potions, poisons and food/drink, the rest goes in the bank where alts can take it out as they need it.

The ability to stack siege weapons would be nice.

Amottica

bmnoble wrote: »

I don't see a need for it personally.

200 soul gems
200 potions
200 food
200 lockpicks
200 grand repair kits
200 empty soul gems to fill as your doing stuff
1000 poisons, which if your using are likely applied to slots on the character to override the enchantments

What that's maybe 7 inventory slots on a character taken up maybe a bit more if you want a few variety's of potions, poisons and food/drink, the rest goes in the bank where alts can take it out as they need it.

The ability to stack siege weapons would be nice.

I guess they would like to have the consumables stored in one location and then access them from anywhere without needing a banker assistant.

I do see your point and considering the banker assistant is probably a nice revenue source I doubt we see such an account-wide bag anytime soon.

Zyva

I would love this!

AoEnwyr

merpins wrote: »

not as bad as we need a bottomless bag for housing furniture.

It would be great if furnishings could either get their own bag. Especially since the introduction of Antiquities because if I get a furnishing lead, I compulsively have to go and excavate it

BXR_Lonestar

Playnice wrote: »

Let's face it, our inventory space is cluttered and we spend lots of time playing the inventory minigame. For quality of life, give us a "Consumables Bag" (similar in function to the existing crafting bag) where we can store all our potions, food, drink, poisons, soul gems, lockpicks, repair kits etc. Right now we are just splitting stacks and spreading the same items across all characters. Why would we ever want to have separate consumable inventories on each character to carry the same items? It's a huge waste of space and creates unnecessary clutter.

Would be nice if they all just went into the Craft Bag and you could use them without having to get the item out of your craftbag - kind of like how crafting works with the Craft Bag.

Sarannah

Placing all accountwide consumables in one bag, that would get very messy. Also the crafting dailies require the consumables to be created by that character, so that would be a major issue.

Personally I'd much rather want a master writ bag.

wolfie1.0.

Just curious. But of the 200 - 215 slots you have available on your characters how much of that is taken up by such things? Mule exceptions aside none of my characters hold more than 25 for food, pots, repair kits, soul gems, lockpicks, and gear. Which leaves me 175+ for other clutter.

I am a chronic hoarder and have bought extra accounts just to store my excess furniture and have 1 account just for treasure maps. And yet even I wonder why this is needed.

It seems to me that it would be easier just to have siege stack with the lowest health siege on the top. And then allow for larger stacks of pots and foods and other items.

Tandor

EF321 wrote: »

BloodyStigmata wrote: »

Honestly what do you all have in your inventories that you can't spare room for a few stacks of potions and food?

Sets. A lot of sets.

Aren't most of them supposed to be either the same and/or useless nowadays?

I find it so difficult these days keeping on top of the complaints...

jaws343

Just stop making/hoarding unnecessary consumables.

If you have too many lockpicks that you need the bank to store them, sell some. Same goes for potions you pick up and for soul gems. Just sell excess and keep what you need. Only make food you plan to use.

No need to implement a solution for a player made problem.

Auldwulfe

Honestly, I'd like the option of selling the daily gift potions to a vendor --- don't need to sell them to other players, etc, and I don't care if I only got 1 gold each .... I have a few thousand of them. They are just valuable enough to not throw away.... and I will NEVER use them all ......

Auldwulfe

bmnoble

Sarannah wrote: »

Placing all accountwide consumables in one bag, that would get very messy. Also the crafting dailies require the consumables to be created by that character, so that would be a major issue.

Personally I'd much rather want a master writ bag.

Only thing you need to make on the specific character is the glyphs for enchanting, you can just keep stacks of the food and drink in the bank, provided you have the banker assistant you can just auto withdraw the required ones if you have lazy writ addon or manually if you don't have it.

I even tested it a while ago on an alt account I could send over stacks of food/drinks/potions/poisons and those would count for the daily crafting writs.

Hapexamendios

Don't really have a need for it myself

Billium813

Honestly, I don't see that much of a need for this. Each character only has like 2-3 different pots they carry around (stat pot, health pot, detect pot), 1 food, lockpicks, soul gems. I mean, its only like 5-7 inventory slots that are unique to your character... out of the 210 inventory slots.

There are SO many better inventory improvements they could add before these minor miscellaneous items getting their own bag (Companion inventory to hold their own gear, a "squire" assistant to hold your Armory builds, motif books for extra motif pages, recipe books for extra recipe pages, allowing PvP Siege weapons to stack when they are full health, furnishing bags). Pots, food, poisons are pretty low on the list. Get in line.

merpins wrote: »

not as bad as we need a bottomless bag for housing furniture.

I find spare houses as good warehouses for extra furnishings. I was happy when I got Doomchar Plateau for free as it gave me 700 new furnishing slots!