I have FOUR bank alts (!) and need your help

Eightpeaks · March 2015

Hi guys. Long story short - I have FOUR BANK ALTS (!) and I badly need your help.

I've just come back to the game after a long break. Before I left, I got annoyed with the amount of micromanagement I (felt I) had to do to store my mats.

Now I want to fix it - and enjoy the game - and I'm asking you for help!

I’m going to list below all the things I have. Please help me decide what to do with it all – what to keep, what to sell, what to craft, etc.

Here we go:

Alt 1: Blacksmithing
Bonesnap Binding Stone Cyrodiil Treasure Map 5 100 Dwarven ingots 15 Dwarven oil 10 Ebony ingot Fetish of Anger 111 Honing stone 572 iron ingot Khenarthi’s Roost Treasure Maps 1 & 3 52 Lesser soul gem 500 lockpicks 2 Mastic 481 Orichalcum ingots 73 Pitch Racial Motifs: 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 9, 9, 10 379 sanded beech 116 sanded hickory 315 sanded maple 262 sanded oak 27 sanded yew 632 steel ingot 12 Turpen

Alt 2: Provisioning
34 acai 41 apples 52 bananas 100 barley 5 beets 3 Bervez juice 11 bittergreen 48 carrots 29 cheese 114 coffee 41 corn 47 flour 12 Frost Mirriam 20 garlic 52 ginger 110 gingko 32 ginseng 11 guarana 47 honey 33 isinglass 115 jasmine 1 jazbay grapes 29 lemon 9 lotus 7 melon 34 metheglin 51 millet 61 mint 59 potato 130 poultry 2 rice 35 saltrice 46 seasoning 60 seaweed 120 small game 131 surilie grapes 32 wheat 41 yeast 16 yerba mate

Alt 3: Alch + Enchanting
30 blessed thistle 35 blue entoloma 48 bugloss 111 cleansed water 72 clean water 5 columbine 39 corn flower 34 dragonthorn 17 emetic russula 9 imp stool 46 lady’s smock 17 lumious russula 23 mountain flower 9 namira’s rot 379 natural water 46 nirnroot 74 pristine water 11 purified water 16 stinkhorn 12 violet caprinus 88 water hyacinth 13 white cap 48 wormwood 11 Denata 33 Jejota 2 Kuta 7 Rekuta MANY MANY WHITE ENCHANTING MATS

Alt 4: Clothing and misc
100 adamantite 43 almandine 22 amethyst 37 argentum 47 bloostone 123 bone 13 carnelian 34 chrysolite 37 common soul gem 5 copper 100 corundum 361 cotton 100 crawlers 1 daedra heart 33 diamond 9 ebonthread 2 Elegant Lining 29 embroidery 19 emerald 13 fire opal 281 flax 100 flint 16 garnet 81 hemming 180 hide 92 insect parts 12 jade 562 jute 208 leather 200 manganese 37 minor soul gem 200 molybdenum 100 moonstone 76 nickel 80 obsidian 3 palladium 38 quartz 290 rawhide 22 ruby 24 sapphire 173 spidersilk 274 starmetal 144 thick leather 29 turquoise

I need to solve this before I can fully enjoy the game. Can anyone help a guy out?

Asterix777 · March 2015

Hi,

In my opinion and for your consideration::
If you enjoy crafting....keep it all!!!....except for provisioning items that are no longer used in game...sell those....if you do not like crafting and just want to play the combat portion of the game...sell everything and buy what you need when you need it.

To truly enjoy this game...you will need all 8 alts....maybe not today...but at some point. Use different alts for crafting...try playing each alt. I have played all 4 types of characters and each is a joy to play in its own way plus it helps you understand these characters and what they are capable of when you decide to go into Cyrodil. Think of your alts as a team...not as individuals.

For example, I have the following alts:-each of these alts is also played like a main alt
Blacksmithing, Clothing, Woodworking-1 alt (also has skill points in deconstruction)
Provisioning-1 alt
Alchemy-1 alt
Enchanting-1 alt
Item improvement with tempers-1 alt (this alt works with the Blacksmithing etc alt to create and destroy items for leveling up Blacksmithing, Clothing and Woodworking (also has skill points in deconstruction).

Many items in game are becoming difficult to get your hands on as the justice system is now in play so acquiring supplies is not what it used to be.

Now if you need gold...do some selling...but I suspect that in the future buying that stuff WHEN you need it will be more expensive...alot of items for sale in guild stores are increasing in price....just look at motifs in particular and to some degree materials.

Asterix777

Ourorboros · March 2015

Get yourself some add-ons to help deal with your stuff.

For things you may want to sell, AwesomeGuildStore and MasterMerchant. These make it much easier to sort and find current prices.
For general organization, AdvancedFilters and InventoryGridView.
Do some searching for good alchemy and enchanting add-ons. I use QuickEnchanter and PotionMaker, but there is no clear must have for this category. For your provisioning, SousChef all the way.

You have a big mix of items, some worthless, some very valuable. It's up to you to use them or sell them.

Faenwyn · March 2015

I just restarted yesterday, it did not take long for me to remember why I quit in the first place...dealing with the inventory is a full time job!!!

There is no way to play the game without constantly having to quit what you are doing and go shuffle inventory items unless you just never pick up anything.

I spent my first day back doing nothing but trying to get enough gold to buy bag slots and bank slots.

The cooking was not even any fun any more since everything used only one item.

If they sold bags and bank slots in the Crown Store, I would buy that just so I could play this game without having my blood pressure go through the roof! LOL!

UrQuan · March 2015

OK, a couple of things jump out at me. First, why do you have so many motifs? Do you have a plan to create a new crafter who will use them to learn the styles? If not, I'd suggest you sell them at a guild store. Prices seem to be higher now than they were before 1.6, so if they're taking up space in your bag, you might as well sell them.

The same goes for all those iron ingots and jute - are you going to actually use them? If not, sell them in a guild store.

I'd probably hang on to just about everything else you list - with the possible exception being any essence or potency runes that you know you won't use (or you could use those to try to level enchanting on your alts).

BenevolentBowd · March 2015

I agree with Ourorboros . I'd suggest you get an addon like DataDaedra Shopkeeper or Master Merchant and then join some large trade guilds (if you aren't a member already).

The addons will go through the sales history of guilds you belong to and show you the weighted avg of the items sold. This will give you an idea of what things cost and how common they are.

I'd keep the purple provisioning stuff (Bervez juice and Frost Mirriam) as I've only seen them drop from writ rewards now.

SLy_Kyti · March 2015

*Stack your mats into 200s, vendor or sell off in chat the ones beyond 200.
*Make up all the purple or blue foods you can or will use, then again if its over 200 get rid of it.
*Use one horse and one alt to get max space, unlock all bag slots, all horse cap.
*All racial books except purples like daedric come easy, no need to keep extras even if you start a new crafter later.
*Start a guild with a couple friends until you have a bank at 10 members, let them know you plan to lock the bank except for yourself or one other...you get 500 slots now.
*My enchanter keeps runes in her inventory and my black smith keeps ores etc, use the characters inventory if needs be.
*Use use use Mail return add-on to bounce or return loot to be sold, recipes to keep or to send runes to your enchanter, ores to your smith, it all goes in mail so you can clear it each day.
*Use your maps up immediately, get those out of inventory. No need to save them.
Sell, sell,sell.

helediron · March 2015

Get rid of middle-level crafting mats. Keep only the lowest and highest. E.g. if you are VR14 keep iron and void ingots. From iron you can make traits and from void stone the gear at your level. Unless you are actually selling gear, when will you make anything from orichalcum?

DeLindsay · March 2015

You don't have HALF the stuff I do stored in my Bank and I have zero issues with Inventory, especially since 1.6 helped us out a little. The only advice I can give you is pony up the Gold and buy more Bank space and Train Inventory spaces on all your Character's Riding skill until it's 170 each. There is no way at 240 Bank and 170 per Toon that you should have ANY problems with inventory.

EDIT: However, I wouldn't be at all upset if ZoS were to add more spaces to our Bank and personal Inventory, say 300 Bank max and 200 Character max (after all upgrades). It would allow me to hoard even more useless crap than I already do

SLy_Kyti · March 2015

DeLindsay wrote: »

EDIT: However, I wouldn't be at all upset if ZoS were to add more spaces to our Bank and personal Inventory, say 300 Bank max and 200 Character max (after all upgrades). It would allow me to hoard even more useless crap than I already do

LoL you and me both DeLindsay. Though buying another game just to have mules seems like an interesting alternative.

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YourNameHere · March 2015

I'll take all your provisioning items!

Krym · March 2015

Moderat wrote: »

I’m going to list below all the things I have. Please help me decide what to do with it all – what to keep, what to sell, what to craft, etc.

get bankmanager and set it to complete stacks on alts, on your main set it to complete stacks in the bank, then distribute the stuff accordingly.

for example I got 4 mules myself (1 for traitgems/stylestone, 1 runes, 1 rare+ items for later, 1 for old crafting mats) - I could probably slim some of that down but I'm a hoarder.

this way I just automatically stack most of my stuff whenever I open the bank, manually move the rest and then log through 2-3 alts once a day to take it out.
it's a temporary workaround anyway till I get more slots.

Faenwyn wrote: »

There is no way to play the game without constantly having to quit what you are doing and go shuffle inventory items unless you just never pick up anything.

at the beginning it's low, but in the end you'll have a 170 slot inventory (maxed slots and max riding skill) and 200 (iirc) bank slots. it will take a lot of time and money but it's there.

provision items are taking the largest amount of space, but those come from barrels and crates. just skip those and focus on backpacks etc. haven't looked that close at the provision revamp but before there was lowlvl stuff you could also get rid of if you are maxlvl.

Daedric27 · June 2015

Shoot anything you dont use my way if youre on PSN dimeoflage22