What to do with known motifs?

E_Lucan · July 15

Behold my current predicament: Over the years that I've spent playing ESO, I've amassed tons of crafting motifs, and my main crafting character already knows all of them. Even if I wanted to individually teach them to other crafting characters, I'd end up with leftover ones.

What I've seen most people do with motifs is sell them via guild trader. However, I am not presently in a guild, nor do I particularly want to join a trading guild. I'm not very regularly active, and if I were to join a guild, I'd want to focus on other things in it (e.g. running dungeons and going through dungeon quests, I mostly play casually and with focus on the story).

So, my question is, is there any other option besides discarding/selling them to NPCs? I don't necessarily want to earn money from them, I'm just tired of them taking up my inventory and bank space, but it'd also feel like a waste to just hand them to an NPC when I'm sure there are players who might want them.

^ A screenshot of just one part of my stash, not to flex or anything since I'm sure others have way more than that if they play more regularly than me, but just to demonstrate the issue lol. Thanks for reading/answering!

fizl101 · July 15

shout out in zone chat or randomly mail to strangers and ask them to pay it forward

If you do join a dungeon guild you could put them in the guild bank or the internal trader if they don't buy a kiosk

freespirit · July 15

I was going to suggest offering them free via Zone chat BUT it appears I should follow my own advice......

I cannot stop myself opening the daily chest in Tideholm I need to have a serious word with myself!!

Elsonso · July 15

It takes just a few seconds to sell them all to a Merchant, so no other option is necessary. Everything else is just spending in-game time fiddling with inventory that could just be sold off to a Merchant.

E_Lucan · July 15

fizl101 wrote: »

shout out in zone chat or randomly mail to strangers and ask them to pay it forward

If you do join a dungeon guild you could put them in the guild bank or the internal trader if they don't buy a kiosk

Sounds like a solid idea, thank you! I'll keep the bit about guilds in mind, too, I've never been in one (not much of a social player lol) so I had no clue that was an option.

Elsonso wrote: »

It takes just a few seconds to sell them all to a Merchant, so no other option is necessary. Everything else is just spending in-game time fiddling with inventory that could just be sold off to a Merchant.

Thanks for the feedback! I really don't mind taking the in-game time to do something more with them to be honest, they take a bit of RNG/effort to earn, so if there's a way I can get them to someone who will use them, that's an option I'd like.

SeaGtGruff · July 15

E_Lucan wrote: »

fizl101 wrote: »

shout out in zone chat or randomly mail to strangers and ask them to pay it forward

If you do join a dungeon guild you could put them in the guild bank or the internal trader if they don't buy a kiosk

Sounds like a solid idea, thank you! I'll keep the bit about guilds in mind, too, I've never been in one (not much of a social player lol) so I had no clue that was an option.

Elsonso wrote: »

It takes just a few seconds to sell them all to a Merchant, so no other option is necessary. Everything else is just spending in-game time fiddling with inventory that could just be sold off to a Merchant.

Thanks for the feedback! I really don't mind taking the in-game time to do something more with them to be honest, they take a bit of RNG/effort to earn, so if there's a way I can get them to someone who will use them, that's an option I'd like.

If guilds aren't your thing, you could always join a guild, deposit what you don't want into the guild bank, then leave the guild.

freespirit · July 15

Guilds can be great, sometimes it just takes a while to find one where you fit...... when you do however you will know!!

Tonight I have spent more time chatting than playing, it has been a lovely evening

vsrs_au · July 16

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

E_Lucan wrote: »

fizl101 wrote: »

shout out in zone chat or randomly mail to strangers and ask them to pay it forward

If you do join a dungeon guild you could put them in the guild bank or the internal trader if they don't buy a kiosk

Sounds like a solid idea, thank you! I'll keep the bit about guilds in mind, too, I've never been in one (not much of a social player lol) so I had no clue that was an option.

Elsonso wrote: »

It takes just a few seconds to sell them all to a Merchant, so no other option is necessary. Everything else is just spending in-game time fiddling with inventory that could just be sold off to a Merchant.

Thanks for the feedback! I really don't mind taking the in-game time to do something more with them to be honest, they take a bit of RNG/effort to earn, so if there's a way I can get them to someone who will use them, that's an option I'd like.

If guilds aren't your thing, you could always join a guild, deposit what you don't want into the guild bank, then leave the guild.

That's what I'd do in the same situation, with one caveat: inform the guild master before joining that you're only joining temporarily to offload all these items, otherwise the GM might not be too happy about you joining under false pretenses.

As for selling them: why not join the guild, then list them all for a major markdown on average listing prices (e.g. as shown by web sites such as Tamriel Trade Center). You'd make heaps of gold (a lot more than if you sold them all to non-guild trader NPCs), and the buyers would be happy.

E_Lucan · July 16

vsrs_au wrote: »

As for selling them: why not join the guild, then list them all for a major markdown on average listing prices (e.g. as shown by web sites such as Tamriel Trade Center). You'd make heaps of gold (a lot more than if you sold them all to non-guild trader NPCs), and the buyers would be happy.

I gotta say I've also considered doing something similar, but the base 'issue' with it is I just avoid multiplayer where I can (yes, yes, it's an MMO, but it's an MMO continuation of a singleplayer series and I prefer the singleplayer elements personally haha). ESO doesn't have an awful community, I don't mind it in the slightest, but I got to ESO from the singleplayer ES games and as such the amount of chatting and interaction I'd have to do to join a guild and agree with the GM about leaving immediately after definitely outweighs the work of trying to find an alternative solution lol. I also worry other players would be upset with me for offsetting some average price they set for the motifs.

DinoZavr · July 16

@E_Lucan, the course of actions seriously depends on the platform you play on.
For PC - it is crystal clear: talk with casual guild officers if theirs guild have trader from time to time.
some casual guilds have publically accessible trader, though in rather less-visited sites, but, anyway:
with Trader available and proper pricing you would be available to sell "good" (highly saught) motif pages,
as they are listed by TTC and if someone really needs motif page for best price - they would travel to
the end of the worlds your Guild Trader is situated.
(i am telling this for sure, as oen of the guilds i am in is exactly that: casual guild with no mandatory donations
or other obligations, but due to members' voluntary donation the Guild in question more often has the Trader, rather than not,
though it is not guaranteed and there are weeks where all bids by our GM are lost).

For console i don't know. TTC does not work for consoles.

So if you are on PC negotiate with big (300+) casual guilds officers about terms (what you owe: ideally - nothing) and public Guild Trader availability (none/rare/sometimes/often) and join. If no obligations you can join several such guilds, then stay at one or two you like the most.

If you can sell like for 250K a week - you can join top Trading Guilds having the best locations, as most of them do not require more than that

freespirit · July 16

E_Lucan wrote: »

vsrs_au wrote: »

As for selling them: why not join the guild, then list them all for a major markdown on average listing prices (e.g. as shown by web sites such as Tamriel Trade Center). You'd make heaps of gold (a lot more than if you sold them all to non-guild trader NPCs), and the buyers would be happy.

I gotta say I've also considered doing something similar, but the base 'issue' with it is I just avoid multiplayer where I can (yes, yes, it's an MMO, but it's an MMO continuation of a singleplayer series and I prefer the singleplayer elements personally haha). ESO doesn't have an awful community, I don't mind it in the slightest, but I got to ESO from the singleplayer ES games and as such the amount of chatting and interaction I'd have to do to join a guild and agree with the GM about leaving immediately after definitely outweighs the work of trying to find an alternative solution lol. I also worry other players would be upset with me for offsetting some average price they set for the motifs.

Nobody will get upset about you listing at below market price, people do it all the time.

The motifs in your screenshot only drop once per year during the Witches Festival BUT they drop really easily..... typically the legs and bow pages are worth a bit because they drop from Arena's so people seem to farm them less, the others are worth very little in comparison.

I don't know what other motifs you have but motif prices are only slightly recovering in price after recent events and because of that many people are listing well below suggested prices, you would just join them.

It is entirely YOUR choice whether to join a Trade Guild, you do not have to make a deal with the GM, people join and leave guilds all day everyday. Just pick a guild list your items, wait for them to sell, if you have nothing else to sell leave, this should not upset anyone!

fizl101 · July 16

I second the suggestion to find a social/casual guild with a trader, you don't need to belong to a trading guild. I'm in 2 social guilds and they both have traders every week. The trials guild I am in has a trader most weeks

VDoom1 · August 17

You could put them in a guild bank, perhaps someone will have use of them. However these older motifs usually just end up taking space somewhere.

Or sell them for a larger profit at a guild store.

DoofusMax · August 17

Speaking strictly to the screenshot (Dremora chapters), I feed those to alts. They're common enough drops during Witches Festival that getting one or two alts mostly through that style isn't a huge chore and learning all 14 chapters boosts Master Writ drops for gear crafts slightly. Draugr from Fighters/Mages dailies and New Moon Priest from the Dragonguard chest are also in that category. For others, I'll drop them in the Guild Bank if they aren't worth the bother of selling, but I'll sell them if they are. I don't belong to a trading guild, so I'll mostly list them for enough to be worth the bother but cheap enough to be worth buying. If I didn't have alts, and considering that they only eat up storage space unless you're just into collecting them, it's either sell them or give them away. "Destroy" is almost never an option for anything other than Crown Poisons from login rewards.

VDoom1 · September 13

That is going to be a bit difficult.

Dremora is one of this older styles. Sure there might be some new players eager to get them. But usually those old styles end up in the bin.

Since you're after an option that doesn't involve guilds, go to popular zones and shout in zone chat. See if anyone is interested, otherwise yah just sell or discard.

redlink1979 · September 16

freespirit wrote: »

(...) I cannot stop myself opening the daily chest in Tideholm I need to have a serious word with myself!!

You should keep opening that daily chest, a full book can drop. Already dropped for me.

Nestor · September 16

E_Lucan wrote: »

nor do I particularly want to join a trading guild. I'm not very regularly active, and if I were to join a guild, I'd want to focus on other things in it (e.g. running dungeons and going through dungeon quests, I mostly play casually and with focus on the story).

Trading Guilds are used to players coming and going. I join one 2, maybe 3 times a year, for about a month. Shed my inventory, then send the guildmaster a polite message asking for me to be kicked or explaning why I left. I explain that I don't have the inventory left to justify taking up a slot. I thank them for the oppurtunity and the good trader location. They appreciate this as opposed to languishing and forcing them to find you to kick you. They always welcome me back when I need to trade again.