Can I separate my characters, bank inventory ect?

basketcaseNZ · March 2017

Hi everyone. So I'm fairly new to this game but I've come to really like it. I played my first character to level 40 then decided I wanted a change. I started a new character, just started looking around the first town I find myself in. I go to the bank and I'm surprised to discover its full of my original character's stuff.

I really don't like this. I want to start from scratch. Is there a way to completely separate my characters somehow, short of playing on different servers?

I'm going to load my original character and take everything out of her bank so my new character doesn't have access to it. Is that the best I can do?

Thanks everyone.

Nestor · March 2017

Bank is shared across characters. If you think about it, you don't want it the other way. Think about how expensive Bank Upgrades are, do that for every character? Yikes.

So, yes, if you want to keep inventory separate, you need to offload it to a mule or a character. I have characters that are just mules, and I keep character specific stuff on certain characters, like my Tank holds the Tank Gear, Stamblade holds the Stamina Gear, Healer holds the healing gear etc.

Also, if you really want to feel like your making a bank for each character, use a Horse, as you can get an extra 60 bags for each character.

Finally, do you really want to start over with all the crafting ingredients and soul gems and other common items used across characters? That just makes leveling an alt harder, not more interesting. Gear, that is different and I understand that, but I still use my Crafter to pimp out my Leveling Alts.

Khenarthi · March 2017

Your bank is always shared between characters.

MAEK · March 2017

I don't believe there's any other way than what you described. I'd recommend holding onto that stuff though, as you might want it later even though you don't want it now.

Tandor · March 2017

I fully understand the OP's point, and largely agree with it. The ideal scenario would be to have individual bank inventories with a limited number of shared bank slots - the EQ/EQ2 method, for example. The present setup is handy for those who don't want to do everything individually on all their characters, but many players do and it is a frustration for them - as well as for those players who have deconstructed another character's retained gear by mistake.

TheShadowScout · March 2017

Yeah, bank and such cannot be seperated, it is account wide by design (not in the least for the purpose of shifting stuff from one character to another if you feel like it).

But you can always not use it.

Or as has been mentioned, make a third character for the sole purpose of grabbing your bank inventory so its empty again (aka, "mule")

You can of course decide how to use your bank... no reason you need to put anything in it after all, though that would of course quickly clog a characters inventory (daily horse training for carry capacity helps there).

You can also only put things in the character bank that are "for later" (crafting stuff, trait research stuff, treasure maps, etc.) and keep the "useable" gear on your characters...

Up to you.

Danikat · March 2017

A few things are shared, but you can still keep your characters fairly separate:

Bank space - You can either keep each characters items in their inventory or just remember who owns each item. But in some cases it's hugely beneficial to be able to pass things between characters - if you find a weapon on one character which would be perfect for another you can send it over. Or if you get into crafting you can send items to research to the one who needs it and then they can make equipment for your other characters.

Champion Points - You get these as a reward for gaining XP after level 50 and they take a lot of XP to get so you may find yourself glad that they're shared. But if you want to you can always not spend them on a character until they reach level 50.

Dyes - These are unlocked by completing achievements and can be used on any character (the achievements themselves are character bound). Again you can choose not to use any dye that character hasn't unlocked if you want to - it tells you in the dye menu which achievement each one is from.

Collection items (Mounts, pets, costumes etc.) - Again you might be glad these are shared because many of them cost real money and the ones you can get in-game are expensive or difficult to get. But you can always pick one (or more) per character and only use them on that character.

Guilds & Friends - All your characters are in all your guilds, and your friends list is the same on all of them, but since you'll usually be interacting with other players as you rather than your character that's usually ok. Role-playing guilds that only allow certain characters (like werewolf packs) usually just say you only join in with guild things on that character.

Mail - Mail can be picked up on any character, except hireling mail (where crafters get sent bonus materials), but you can always leave it for the character it's intended for.

Houses - This one might be tricky. Any house you buy is accessible to all your characters, and it's the same for all of them. So if you want two of them to live in the same place they have to share the same layout.

Alternatively you can put characters on different servers and then they're completely separate, the only things that carry over are things you buy outside the game - ESO Plus, Morrowind, and anything that was included with your copy of the game - for example if you got the Imperial edition then you can make Imperials on both characters. If you go that route though be aware that your crown balance is shared but crown store items are only available on the server you buy them on. If you buy a 1,500 crown pack you'll have 1,500 crowns on both servers. If you buy a 900 crown horse on the NA server you'll ONLY have the horse on NA but your balance on both servers will drop to 600 crowns.

basketcaseNZ · March 2017

Thanks everyone. I think I'm satisfied with the mule option, so that's fine.

KingYogi415 · March 2017

Sure, just buy another copy of ESO.

Ackwalan · March 2017

You can have characters on both NA and EU servers, they are completely separate.

basketcaseNZ · March 2017

I've noticed another bleed through, as it were between my characters and the quests. My first character was Aldmeri Dominion and did quests for the Queen and Razum Da. I got as far as find the Staff of Magnus. My new character is Pact, and I went to Greenshade because I found a treasure map. And there's Razum Da with a quest marker over his head, another NPC approached me and said "You're the Queen's agent aren't you?" Or words to that effect. It was if I was playing my Dominion character.