Housing is getting storage soon, hopefully that will alleviate that a bit. All my friends who don't sub to ESO+ are really turned off by the limited inventory/bank space.

It's tiresome, but possible to manage inventory without ESO+. I've actually found it much easier on my freshborn EU who doesn't have gold for full bag/bank upgrades than on my fully maxed out NA simply because on EU I don't yet have 427927 BoP sets that "just might come in handy one day" therefore cannot be deconstructed.

Deconstruct EVERYTHING, especially while leveling. If you aren't gonna wear that gear like right now at <cp 160, it should be going straight to to deconstruction.

Sell everything you cannot deconstruct and do not immediately need - again, especially true at <cp 160, there's no point in hanging onto potentially useful jewelry that you'll outlevel in an hour anyway. Sell ornate gear as well, it can stack up to hefty sums of gold.

Do hang onto materials but organize them. For example there isn't much reason to hang onto lower level materials once you outlevel them. Sure you might want to craft for an alt or a newbie friend one day but they're dirt cheap and it'll be easier to just buy them when that day comes, than manage extra 25 inventory slots. Perhaps spread crafting between alts so they can keep relevant mats, although that approach has its downsides, especially with how furniture crafting works. Keeping your mats in bank is easier because any toon can directly deposit there.

Train your horse's bag stat, that's 1 slot per day at the price of 250 gold, for up to 60 extra slots.

Make a mule to hold extra stuff, that's what a lot of people do even with ESO+

Storage becomes REALLY tiresome when you reach endgame and begin running into all the potentially-BiS-for-certain-build-but-very-rare gear that you just feel bad deconstructing, but before that it's mostly a question of getting rid of everything you don't need - ergo everything but the gear that you're wearing and mats.

Another tip you may or may not be aware of - you can use your mail for storage, a mail/returned mail with attachments stays in your mailbox for a month. So for example you could bounce some research stuff you don't need right now off a friend and then take it out of your mail 2 weeks later when your research is up.

All of that aside, unfortunately only thing I can see ZOS doing is coming up with ways to make inventory management even worse. They want money and crafting bag alone is probably one of its biggest sources. With that in mind I wouldn't hold my breath for housing storage either...although given how many people have been asking for this maybe I'm wrong.

Mules are super handy. I had a couple of them before I started using ESO+ and I just logged them out right at the bank after I upgraded their riding skill. You can keep extra gear on them, treasure maps, furnishings, rare crafting mats, etc.

here a simple advice, just salvaging "Trainer" gears since you are in starting areas, no need to hold on those.
it easy to replace them.
gather fresh water all you can, sell off excess water for gold, avoid runestones until you need them later, you find the glyphs from chests and rarely from drops, and use them to take apart to level up.

dont hoard any "Trainer" items, take them apart for level ups.
do the provisioning last, since it is too many unless use them asap to level up one or two levels, dont use purple drops, put them away if you get them, there only 3 purple foods, 1 was Roe (fish) you rarely get them after slicing for meats, and 2 others are from hirelings that you send them out.

other choice, make a few "mules", 1 for food and 2nd for runes, and 3rd for alchemy.

game definitely needs more storage from the start, I try to hold onto everything needed for all skills and noticed my bag gets filled so fast it seemed like I was constantly going to bank till that got full too and I am still low level so I don't have gold needed to buy more space.

The cheapest way to increase your bag space (after the first to normal baggage upgrades) is through the carry capacity training via stablemaster. 250 per space. Only problem is you have to forego speed training if you haven't maxed it out and even then there is 20hr cooldown per space increase.

I think the starting space is fine, it’s just the cost scaling gets intense fast. It’s not a problem for old players who have millions laying around in the bank, but I feel like it’s probably harsh on new players.

Glad to see this post getting a lot of positive feedback.

O_LYKOS wrote: »

I personally thing the bag space is fine. It's an mmo, we start off with nothing. As we grow and progress we can upgrade our inventory, just like we upgrade everything else in the game.

Agree. Players are so lazy.

Moreover, being a non-sub crafter I don't suffer from lack of bag space. The thing is people should learn how to manage all that stuff they're grabbing.

My sister and I started at the same time, and we shared the burden of inventory management together as we worked on raising it. Early on, there's not a whole lot to spend gold on, so that was one of our focuses. We had to prioritize stuff for a while, consumed tons of food getting Provisioning up, etc. and just plain had to cool it with the hoarding.

Note, this was before ESO+ so we didn't even have the option of double bankspace or craft bag.

Ultimately, what we ended up doing was buying copies for friends until we had enough to form a couple storage guilds. We still use those guilds heavily.

I looted every day and then bought 2 bag slot upgrades so I was starting off with 80 slots.
Then I got my horse and alternated between speed and bag slot every day.

Then I found crafting and ended up with eso+ because it was just so much easier.

It's plenty. You're not supposed to hoard.

Sell your stuff, get gold, increase your bag size. problem solved.