Can I just ask how you manage your other characters and their inventory. Do you have one character for provisoning items, one for runes etc. I am about to create some alts to support my LVL 37 as I find that I have don't have the money for more bank space or a bigger bag.
How does it work using alts as mules as I have never done this before and am concerned about getting myself into a complete mess!

One of the first things I did was create myself a personal bank. I made a guild and found 10+ people that wanted to join to keep the bank open for me. Now I have access to a 500 slot guild bank on all of my characters along with whatever bank space I purchased. The sad thing is that it holds a constant 450 items out of the 500 slots and you have to get a mod to restack everything since the game doesnt do it for you.

I would like more character slots simply to be able to mess around with different ideas. Sometimes in games I discover my favorite characters by accident. While the Racial skill lines aren't everything they do play a factor.

The issue of the inventory and bank is another thing altogether. Coming from a standard TES game it is a bit befuddling how little space we have to store items. I really wish we had different sections of bank at least. There are really three possibilities how they could lay it out to give us a reprieve.

1) Player Housing: Give us a house like we had in Skyrim/Oblivion/Morrowind. This one is the most obvious, but it would give each of our characters a place to store food in the pantry, armor and weapon alternates on the wall, Metals and such at the Blacksmithing Forge Containers, Wood and Resins at the Woodworking station, etc etc. You get the idea. This one is kind of the most obvious, and why I think they've done little to nothing about it yet.

2) Personal bank space. As it stands now, having one bank actually doesn't make things too easy if you level more than 1 character. Most games give you a personal bank, with a small account bank to shuffle things between characters. This game has a large account bank, which is nice, but very limiting if you ever use more than one character.

3) Bank partitions. Different partitions of bank space could theoretically store different amounts. The Enchanting and Provisioning partition for instance could have larger storage to match the fact that they require ridiculous amounts of space to even be functional. Having a partition for different bank uses might be a cool way to go, and in some ways represent having a house storage. It would also be great for ease of use, in finding what you need quickly.

***As an aside, some things could stack better. 100 items? Really. 20 items for enchanting materials? Just giving us better stacking space would be nice, particularly when I don't think glyphs should take up tons of space.


These are all just random dreams I've hoped for with regard to inventory space. My gut feeling is they're going to use player housing as a means to do a lot of the personal banking I've spoken of. I don't think they want to change the current system, because they are looking forward to this feature in the future (even if it feels like an awful long wait for us).

Velourial wrote: »

How does it work using alts as mules as I have never done this before and am concerned about getting myself into a complete mess!

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Mules.

Now, I had to chuckle when you asked how does it work, because this system we have to take on does not work, at all. But, it is what we have, and what we have to do until they realize that the Bank/Storage space limitations are not helping anything in the game.

You do want to limit, heck, even name your Alts to reflect this, to a certain type of Mats. Otherwise trying to remember who has what will drive you nuts. Also, give each Alt at least the first bank upgrade. This will give you 60 spaces per Mule. I can't see me making it any bigger as an Alt Mule is destined to be deleted at some point. So, to that end, I even make my Mules ugly.

Also, make these Alts work for you, if you craft. It takes about 8 to 10 level 20 to 30 items being deconstructed to gain enough levels in each crafting profession to get the minions. You can get what you need with a single run through a public dungeon at your level. All 4 of my alts have 3 minions each (Wood, Clothing, Armor). So, I get 12 emails a day from just those alts (have to log in to get the email) and I get Mats, Trait Gems and Tempers from them. The mats are low level trash, but the Tempers and Trait Gems are useful and helpful and add up over time.

I have used an add on that tells me what my Alts have in storage (Inventory Insight I think it is called), but it crashed my game when I was switching weapons, so I only use this on my Mules who just spend their lives standing outside the bank.

Not sure about more character slots, but I see your pain. I have 8 Characters and 1 main 1 alt and the rest basically mules. I have a lvl 10 maxed out provisioner with 99 bag slots that usually only has 1 or 2 empty unless I put stuff in the bank to make food.

Turelus wrote: »

Do you have your bank fully upgraded? I find it hard to believe people still have issues with 240 slots unless they're trying to keep every green item they find or the useless provisioning materials.

From all the discussion on the forums it seems reasonable to assume that the majority of people who have issues with storage aren't in a position to have accumulated anywhere near enough gold to have been able to purchase bank and/or bag slots in those kinds of quantity.