What do you all do for item management in 2024?

mdb800

I don't have ESO plus and like many of you can't afford it. I had a few questions on what some of you all do. I've played since 2015 but in the last 3 years I just kind of log in grab event tickets and log out and that's been about it. I have to say I'm very stressed out with how items are just flown and flung in our face.

Thought it occurred to me that I may be looking at it all wrong.
I see that we have the sticker book. But what I'm trying to find what things should I keep?? Museum pieces? Is it worth keeping incomplete? Item set pieces that you're interested in but not currently pursuing on completing the set?
Is it worth keeping motif style crafting items?

SilverBride

We can turn in museum pieces as we get them. We don't have to wait until we have them all.

TheMessengerOfDeath

Wait for sale buy 5 accounts make 5 guilds join all of them with every character randomly inv people most wont come back to play eso so they never leave. 2500 warehouse slots.

Tallon_IV

For gear, I check the reconstruct cost in the Set Items collections. If it's less than 50 (so less than the trait change cost), then I just deconstruct the gear until I need it, unless it's already the trait I would want.

Junk I use Dustman and Personal Assistant. Couldn't imagine playing without them with all the junk they throw at you.

MidniteOwl1913

I admit even with eso+ I spend a fair chunk of time managing items. Part of this is because I'm an active trader and I need to get items to sell, sort them save some sell others right away.

I have all the chests and use them as a filing system. Plus I have a spare house for furnishings storage.

I loathe things that don't stack (PVP items I'm looking at you!) and hoard far too many surveys...

Danikat

Working out what you actually need to keep is a big part of it.

The sticker book helps a lot with this because it means you don't need to hold onto set pieces just in case they're useful at some point in the future, if they are you can reconstuct them. It costs transmute crystals and materials so it is cheaper to keep gear than deconstruct and reconstruct it, but you'll probably never use most of the set gear you get so it won't matter what it costs.

My rule with gear is I have to tell myself exactly what I'm going to do with it. Not "this might be useful" or even "this could be good for a tank set". If I can't say "[Character name] can use this for [build]" it gets deconstructed (or sold if I've already got it unlocked and it's valuable). If I can specify a use it goes to that character to hold and use.

Same with other items, except I sometimes have to look them up online to find out what they're for. As someone else mentioned museum pieces can be turned in one at a time, you don't need a full set. Also they're not one-time items, if you delete them they'll reappear where they were, so if you get one and you're not ready to turn it in you can just delete it.

It's much the same with materials (I don't have ESO+). I know which ones I actually use and roughly how much of them I need and anything else gets sold. You might know this already but there's free ESO+ trials a few times a year which will pull any materials you've got into the craft bag. They stay there when the trial (or a paid subscription) ends, so it's a good way to store things you only get rarely but also rarely use. For example I have a chest I use to store non-racial style materials, and then those get pulled into the craft bag when there's a free trial and sit there until I use them.

Other than that I think the most important thing is having a system so you know where things are and don't lose or duplicate them. All my characters hold their own gear, and a few other odds and ends (lockpicks, soul gems, 2-3 foods, potions etc.). I have 1 character who holds treasure maps, my crafter holds crafting surveys and master writs, and most of the others have a largely empty inventory. Oh and I use one of the free houses from a community event to store spare furniture.

Finally I do a big sort-out about once or twice a year (during an ESO+ free trial because clearing materials into the craft bag and double bank space makes it quicker). All my characters put everything except gear they're actually using into the bank then I go back through them and withdraw only what they actually need. I inevitably find out I have an absurd number of soul gems and lockpicks and loads of different potions, poisons and food which I don't even remember picking up so the excess all gets sold or deleted.

JerBearESO

I throw everything away

Cloudtrader

Trash everything except furniture. Buy extra houses to store furniture in. Sell anything you can't use right away immediately upon getting it. Max bag space on every character, max bank space, having an entire guild to yourself helps.

AvalonRanger

Just please increase home chest capacity.

colossalvoids

Max out chests, load other characters etc. as after homoge.. hybridisation half of them aren't even needed anymore so can just use as full on mules.

Smaxx

I send everything to my co-worker and her SO to return it to my inbox.😅

Ilumia

I play the inventory management mini game, with spreadsheets to help and addons that keep some track of it - and I hate wasting that time even though I feel like I'm really trying to delete/sell/get rid of stuff fast - except surveys, I have an entire mule just for that, one day I'll do them, maybe, but I like questing and group content too, so I don't prioritize them (even though they're just from crafting dailies on my main).
That said here's my inventory storage options:

- 20 chars, 19 of them mules with 215 spaces each
- 480 bank spaces
- 500 guild bank spaces
- My husbands account when he doesn't use it with 8 mules (not bought all inventory packs + mule upgrades yet though).
- All chests in houses full
- Several houses for furniture storage (I don't know how many housing slots used by this, but I think over 2000 so far, and growing rapidly cause my chests cannot hold it all - at all).
- plus the 4x30 guild slots that I fill when I log in

My biggest QoL improvement wish would be the ability to remotely access my alt characters inventory through city banks (like with guild bank, just put each character name under the guild store option so you can open their inventories up and get things out/place). So I don't have to relog endlessly just to get to my items.

Danikat

Ilumia wrote: »

I play the inventory management mini game, with spreadsheets to help and addons that keep some track of it - and I hate wasting that time even though I feel like I'm really trying to delete/sell/get rid of stuff fast - except surveys, I have an entire mule just for that, one day I'll do them, maybe, but I like questing and group content too, so I don't prioritize them (even though they're just from crafting dailies on my main).
That said here's my inventory storage options:

- 20 chars, 19 of them mules with 215 spaces each
- 480 bank spaces
- 500 guild bank spaces
- My husbands account when he doesn't use it with 8 mules (not bought all inventory packs + mule upgrades yet though).
- All chests in houses full
- Several houses for furniture storage (I don't know how many housing slots used by this, but I think over 2000 so far, and growing rapidly cause my chests cannot hold it all - at all).
- plus the 4x30 guild slots that I fill when I log in

My biggest QoL improvement wish would be the ability to remotely access my alt characters inventory through city banks (like with guild bank, just put each character name under the guild store option so you can open their inventories up and get things out/place). So I don't have to relog endlessly just to get to my items.

What are you keeping that needs so much space? What do you do with those items that makes it worth hanging onto so many?

I know you mentioned furniture, but just on those 19 mules you've got 4,085 spaces. I'm struggling to think of anything worth keeping which needs so much space.

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO

mdb800 wrote: »

I don't have ESO plus and like many of you can't afford it. I had a few questions on what some of you all do. I've played since 2015 but in the last 3 years I just kind of log in grab event tickets and log out and that's been about it. I have to say I'm very stressed out with how items are just flown and flung in our face.

Thought it occurred to me that I may be looking at it all wrong.
I see that we have the sticker book. But what I'm trying to find what things should I keep?? Museum pieces? Is it worth keeping incomplete? Item set pieces that you're interested in but not currently pursuing on completing the set?
Is it worth keeping motif style crafting items?

Crafting items stack upto 200 so if you keep trait / style / crafting mats in your bank you can constantly stack into it - this will be enough for all but the main crafting mats (ingots, leather, silk, platinum which you might need to use 3-4 stacks each worth of space).
Set items can be deconstructed if you have a good supply of transmutation crystals (end of campaign, tier 1 rewards is 50 per char, daily normal dungeon, daily undaunted dungeons, weekly raids, ToT) you can store transmutation crystals by crafting one piece items like Maelstrom Resto staff via reconstruction and then holding those reconstructed staves on an alt - this will give you back 25 transmutes per staff every time you deconstruct it.
The set items you do want to keep (medium/light - divines, heavy - reinfoced. Impen if into pvp, jewellery etc) you can store on alts or housing chests until the time you need them, I would tend to only hang onto gear that you have crafted in legendary/put good enchants on. To do this you have a 30 item chest as your 'transfer' chest which you keep empty apart from when you need to move gear across characters - Then use inventory insight addon to track each character's inventory for doing this.

Personofsecrets

I only play one toon and the rest are used to hold onto inventory.

Reginald_leBlem

I went to starter zones and paid new players 50k gold each to join a fake guild that I dumped 400 motifs, patterns, and furnishings in