Looking for inventory management ideas

Iselin · March 2018

Despite having a maxed bank and ESO+ I find myself usually with a full or near full bank filled mostly with CP160 set pieces that I may someday use (lol.) I occasionally get ruthless and decon bound heads and shoulders because I tend not to use those (except on healers) and put non-bound up for sale just to make space. I also have several of my 15 characters I don't play much as mules for things such as siege equipment, duplicate recipes waiting to go for sale, soul gems, lockpicks, maps and writs waiting to be used, etc.

I haven't gotten around to using housing storage chests yet but I'll get around to maxing that sometime soon I'm sure.

I actually dread going in there and spending all the time I know I'l have to spend organizing, sorting and culling the hoard. One of the reason I spend more time playing lowbee alts than on my 10 CP720+ characters is that I don't have to hassle with their gear management: I just decon or vendor all their gear as I replace it.

So I'm looking for ideas. How do you guys handle it? What have you ended up putting in your house storage? Any add-ons you can recommend for managing gear sets? Anything really...

antimawkish · March 2018

I use set tracker addon (tells me what set pieces I have on tracked sets across my account) and have convinced myself any set I am not currently using that drops from a dungeon would be easy enough to farm that I can decon anything that is not a weapon.

When tidying, I only do it one or two characters at a time so as to not burn out, and I get on that ASAP when I'm in a "get rid of it all" mood. Without ESO+, I further have a dedicated character that holds tank gear, another that has stuff that I intend to list on guild trader, one that holds magicka dps gear, etc. Only adds ~10min of playtime to a long game session, and it's even less when I've got ESO+ (I unsubbed until I can go >15min without running into a bug) since crafting bag means everything just fits in the doubled bank.

Edit: I use house storage for alt gear, rarely used monster sets, and dyes that I'm not willing to part with yet don't need quick access too.

Iselin · March 2018

antimawkish wrote: »

... have convinced myself any set I am not currently using that drops from a dungeon would be easy enough to farm that I can decon anything that is not a weapon.

I want to adopt your mindset but damn it, it's hard!

xaraan · March 2018

Stop saving everything.

Easier said that done I know, but that's the secret and the reason they don't have unlimited storage. They don't want everyone to just save all their stuff forever.

If it's not a bound item and you don't have need to use it, sell it unless perhaps it's a weapon with perfect trait as those are harder to get. If it's bound, then again, break it down unless it's a weapon. Only exception I have is a couple sets that I've saved and stuff like boss head/shoudlers and master/ma weapons or whatever and sometimes jewelry. And sometimes new sets I'll save up stuff to test out and make a decision if it's worth running/keeping.

Fact is, most body pieces of gear is pretty easy to farm. Let's say you want burning spellweave stuff and you didn't save it, if you saved the jewels and weapons, then you can easily farm for the body pieces in a normal run solo if you have to and now that we can transmute, you can always fix something if you get tired of waiting for that last piece in the perfect trait. Overland stuff you can do the same, but also just buy it yourself in guild stores if you want to be quick about it.

It really is freeing to have bank space, bag space on all my characters (they each carry their own gear and i try to keep them at 100ish inventory used out of their 200) and space left over in chests.

So I say, pick a handful of builds for each character and keep that gear on them. Everything else that isn't jewelry or weapon or some similar harder to get item (dsa, trial, boss head, etc), get rid of.

MrsPink · March 2018

Sounds like me, I have a full bank, a full guild bank, and almost all my characters are overflowing.

Tandor · March 2018

Iselin wrote: »

Despite having a maxed bank and ESO+ I find myself usually with a full or near full bank filled mostly with CP160 set pieces that I may someday use (lol.)

The fact that you not only said "that I may someday use" but also felt compelled to add "(lol)" suggests you know perfectly well what the solution is

!

Jura23 · March 2018

stupid question: why do you guys even decon regular loot? Unless you need to lvl crafting, seems like a waste of time to me. I just vendor everything.

Jaimeh · March 2018

I'm so tired of farming, and so wary of meta changing that I keep almost everything in terms of gear. I had to farm sets from scratch when returning to the game after a break, so now I have all sorts of random pieces in my inventory 'just in case'

What I do is keep sets for a specific class/role in the inventory of the respective character, so that my healers have healing sets, and so on, as well as alternative sets they might use, and sets for PvP. Each character also has their own pots/food/kits/siege, so that these don't take up space in the bank. I have a maxed out inventory on my main character, who is the one I open treasure maps and pick up surveys with, so I keep these on that character. I put surplus furniture inside the free apartments, until I have a use for them. I got the new coffers and use them for my left over monster helms and shoulders, and that was a great help.

NoFlash · March 2018

I keep set weapons but decon the armor for all my "might use some day" sets. Also just deleting whatever items you don't touch monthly helps too.

Sergykid · March 2018

Jura23 wrote: »

stupid question: why do you guys even decon regular loot? Unless you need to lvl crafting, seems like a waste of time to me. I just vendor everything.

the materials you get from deconstructing are way much more worth than vendoring the item. Or maybe even hold the important materials for when you must upgrade something.

Iselin · March 2018

Tandor wrote: »

Iselin wrote: »

Despite having a maxed bank and ESO+ I find myself usually with a full or near full bank filled mostly with CP160 set pieces that I may someday use (lol.)

The fact that you not only said "that I may someday use" but also felt compelled to add "(lol)" suggests you know perfectly well what the solution is !

Good point

The honest truth is that I was dreading doing what I knew I had to do... but no more.

It took me several hours but I hunkered down and got myself organized (thanks @antimawkish for the suggestion of the Set Tracker add-on - it was a godsend to just mark the sets I actually wanted to keep with that subtle purple dot.) I deconned the bound stuff I didn't want to keep and spread the unbound items among several characters to sell once my guild store slots open up.

I also took all the furnishings I had been accumulating and just made piles in the Coven's Cottage I got a few months ago. It looks like a junkyard but that actually seems to fit with the atmosphere.

I went ahead and used all those crowns I had accumulated by subbing on storage crates (which I filled up mostly with jewelry to hold until I know if jewelry crafting really is coming this year and if deconstructing jewelry will be a part of that.) I'm not much of a vanity player nor am I really into housing but my Snugpod hovel is now fully stocked with storage chests and a banker NPC... crowns well spent

As a bonus I'm rediscovering playing with some of my seldom played CP720 characters who were mostly just muling for months.

R_K · March 2018

I am a Housing fan, and furniture was actually taking up a surprising chunk of my inventory space. To address that, I bought a few of the apartments and cheap, cheap houses (~40k or less ones) and sorted my unused furniture into each apartment/house by Furniture Category (such as Suite, Hearth, Lights, etc.).

[and yes, I realize this takes some gold -- it's not for everyone]

Onigar · March 2018

I feel sure you can buy a second game for less than 15 dollars which gives you 8 chars for more storage as well as the bank.

This is the equivalent cost of a small Crown Pack

Epona222 · March 2018

I'm a hoarder myself, but there's a term that I feel is appropriate here, and that is "s*** or get off the pot" - ie if you want a build that uses that gear, make a character to that build or respec an existing character to use it.

If you don't want to do that, and it's just some vague notion of what you might want for a future build however many months/years down the line, then decon it.

WNAPosadzkib16_ESO · March 2018

Am a OCD hoarder.
Each of my characters holds a slot, so, one character holds all the belts, another the helms, etc.
Every time I log, I cycle through my characters, collecting the hireling stuff and remove items from the bank to that character.
Thankfully, now that we can change traits on items, I have inventory space! Yay!

WakeYourGhost · March 2018

Have you gotten rid of all Blue quality jewlery?
Destroyed things with bad traits when you have ones with good in the same slot and set?

Iselin · March 2018

WakeYourGhost wrote: »

Have you gotten rid of all Blue quality jewlery?
Destroyed things with bad traits when you have ones with good in the same slot and set?

I'm deliberately holding all jewelry at the moment waiting for the jewelry crafting announcement thinking that it might be valuable to have for deconstructing and getting mats / leveling jewelry crafting. I have more than 200 pieces of CP160 jewelry at the moment

method__01 · March 2018

i keep all stacked items f.e motifs in one mule toon,another is only for neck-rings,expensive furniture always on bank,rest in app rooms,sell all white,decon green and blue items,keep about 20-30 set pieces and crafted gear stored in mules
put the rest (monster sets,training and leveling sets) in crates
make sure your toons have at least 160 carry capacity so you can use one f.e maps,other for surveys
storage crates helped a lot,was at max 480 and now at 180+

zaria · March 2018

Onigar wrote: »

I feel sure you can buy a second game for less than 15 dollars which gives you 8 chars for more storage as well as the bank.

This is the equivalent cost of a small Crown Pack

You can however not store bound items on secondary account.

WakeYourGhost · March 2018

Iselin wrote: »

WakeYourGhost wrote: »

Have you gotten rid of all Blue quality jewlery?
Destroyed things with bad traits when you have ones with good in the same slot and set?

I'm deliberately holding all jewelry at the moment waiting for the jewelry crafting announcement thinking that it might be valuable to have for deconstructing and getting mats / leveling jewelry crafting. I have more than 200 pieces of CP160 jewelry at the moment

...that... is actually a good idea. Huh..
Uhh.. I’m fresh outta ideas.

RANKK7 · March 2018

Once I was a hoarder, but one day something happened. I was in Vvardenfell for skyshards, I had to destroy items every 2 minutes killing mobs on the way, I was incredibly annoyed by this, I had reached that point where you feel in a cage, inventory full on my main, all alts had inventory full, bank full. In a moment I've been permeated by a sort of cosmic furor, I ran straight to the nearest wayshrine, went to town, deconned everything I had in inventory for future sales, even pieces of good value, I had reached the point of NO RETURN, I couldn't stop, I have loaded all the alts, destroyed pvp potions, siege, bound furniture I just hated, all jewels from veteran dungeons I was not using except dlc ones, shoulders and helms except divines and impen and a few sturdy, freaking trinkets I was hoarding with no purpose like spirit stones and other crap, that day I have destroyed a bunch of items I could have sold both armor and weapons, not excessively expensive but with some value and I had no the slightest regret!

From that day on, I never have any inventory full, nor the main one or alts, bank always have 40 at least empty slots, I didn't even bought storage chests yet. I felt so FREE and still I am.
Right now I keep only what's useful at present about sets, I have some old ones stowed away or other in prevision but not many, I craft potions and poisons strictly when I need and not in multiple bulks as I used to, I don't buy a ton of siege all together anymore and never will again, crafted furniture I'm not using and I don't reckon to use soon go immediately on sale, for other items I keep valuable things to sell above 4k, crap with much less value get insta-deconned or sold to merchant. What a release.

Anotherone773 · March 2018

Some tips from a former hoarder in games and an anti hoarder in real life:

*Consider how much time and effort you spend managing your hoard VS how hard the items you are hoarding are to acquire. In many cases it would probably be less time consuming( and more profitable) to get rid of the items and acquire them again if you need them.

*If you have things waiting to go to guild traders and have a backlog then you have a flow problem. Either you dont have enough traders ( and you only need 2 or 3 unless you play 12 hours a day everyday or do nothing but farm for things to sell) OR you are pricing to high. If your trying to get in the upper half of what items are going for ( your not one of those people that post something for 12k when the average price is 4k are you?) your probably sitting on things to long. As a general rule if furniture and gear doesnt sell in 10 days on a trader, its probably priced to high. For everything else if it doesnt sell in 5 days, its to high. Ideally you should be turning over half of your trading slots or more every 24 hours.

You dont need to get top gold for things and you probably wont. People who L2T understand you want to move items as fast as you acquire them. Having a stock of items neither makes you money nor benefits you sitting in a bank.

* Furniture issues? You have two options. One, if it has a recipe, sell the furniture and acquire the recipe. Its easier to make than to store. Option two, buy a house with a big area that you dont plan on using any time soon. One with an outdoor area. Place your furniture here. Dont place it and make it pretty, just use the house furniture slots to store it. It is even displayed for you when you want to do a little shopping for some home decorating.

* Gear issues? If its BoE and crafted get rid of it. If its BoE drops, get rid of it, you can buy it and even improve it if you need too. If its bound ask yourself if you are going to use that gear in the next 3 months. If the answer is no, then get rid of it. In 3 months that set may not even be relevant anymore( think of all the sets that are now crap that use to not be crap). If your saving that gear for a future character will they be able to wear it in the next 3 months? If not get rid of it. Have multiple gear sets for one character that you dont even have yet? Get rid of the extras. All you need is one good set to keep to put the character in at first and then you can go from there.

Its easy to hoard in games, especially games in which there are so many items. Will i need this later? What if i need this and i get rid of it now? There is so much you COULD need later. Its a great way to get you buy space. The fact is you dont need most of that stuff and a lot of it will sit in your inventory for over a year without being used. Get rid of it.

Remember your playing a game, not trying be the spokesperson for " The Container Store" or get on an episode of "Hoarders: Virtual Edition"

Slick_007 · March 2018

Deal with bags before they get full. many shorter periods of cleaning is easier to deal with.

FIght. loot. pull out merchant - the new items can all be shown at the top of your bag. easy to see and sell what you dont want. If you're in a dungeon, just dont open your bag til you are ready to sell and the same thing will work. Dont need to scroll through your whole bag to find those trash items.

If your bag gets full and you have difficulty working out what to get rid off - set yourself a merchant limit. Anything under that you trash -decon or sell. I look at prices and say hey, this purple item is worth 600g. thats about the same as the purple mat. may as well decon it. Or difference betweeen my blue item and the purple version is not worth the upgrade, but people are going to buy the purple therefore my blue wont sell. decon/vendor.

i sell wood and ore items blue and down that dont meet my merchant limit as above, straight to vendor. Dont need the items. cloth i decon since i dont have as much.

RANKK7 · March 2018

@Anotherone773
Very nice suggestions.

Mayrael · March 2018

What I do:
Use FCOItemSaver and AutoCategory addons. Created some rules in AutoCategory to group items:
1. New set items that are automarked by FCO as Unknown. These are on top of all of my categories untill I decide what to do with them (InventoryInsight allows me to check do I have same or better item somwewhere on my mules, if not item stays, if I do it goes for selling or decon). Then I have categories:
2. Marked for sell at guild store.
3. Marked for sell at vendor.
4. Deconstruct.
5. FCO dynamic categories (PvE, PvP, Healing gear, Tanking gear etc.)
6. Sort by set names.

Then I simply store certain sets on my mules (split on light, medium, heavy and crafted), while gear marked with FCO stays always in bank so all of my toons can have easy access to them.

Dustman addon is also musthave. It deals with all trash stuff I loot. One click and sold.

antimawkish · March 2018

Sounds like you are progressing in the battle against one of the hardest bosses in the game: your inventory. Go you!

Juju_beans · March 2018

I use FCO Item saver add-on and can mark various pieces of gear.
Also a harder but recovered. I only save purples of set pieces I'm looking for.

geonsocal · March 2018

as far as BoE gear, i only ever really hang on to jewelry or weapons if it's a set i may "potentially" use one day...

my current curse is those dang treasure maps...i've filled a whole chest with those and still have about 20 left in my bank...

dodgehopper_ESO · March 2018

The problem is in part that one round of pledges will fill up 80-100 inventory slots EASILY. Throw in potions, lockpicks, soul gems, food, and siege engines and there isn't much left. I really wish siege engines would get their own bag at the very least.

The other issue is that you need different sets of gear for different jobs. Trials, Dungeons, PvP... It is one thing if you wish to use a bunch of alts as mules, and another thing altogether if you actually play them.

Merlin13KAGL · March 2018

But seriously, inventory management is such a pain in the ass. We get it.

Inventory Insights + Set Tracker + Advanced Filters will make a world of difference.
Beyond that, figure what sets you need for which character and make them carry their own luggage - even if it's a crappy trait placeholder, have it in their inventory. Swap out as you get better drops or transmute as necessary.
If it's not something you need, really need or some rare drop in a phenomenal trait, decon it.
If you're still crazy full and you'd normally decon it, sometimes just leave it where is lays.

Even doing all these things, inventory management will still take up far longer than it should.

The inventory pool should be shared among characters to simplify things. After all, it's basically what you're already doing when shuffle around from alt to bank to alt again.

Best of luck!

dodgehopper_ESO · March 2018

Merlin13KAGL wrote: »

But seriously, inventory management is such a pain in the ass. We get it.
Inventory Insights + Set Tracker + Advanced Filters will make a world of difference.

Beyond that, figure what sets you need for which character and make them carry their own luggage - even if it's a crappy trait placeholder, have it in their inventory. Swap out as you get better drops or transmute as necessary.

If it's not something you need, really need or some rare drop in a phenomenal trait, decon it.

If you're still crazy full and you'd normally decon it, sometimes just leave it where is lays.

Even doing all these things, inventory management will still take up far longer than it should.

The inventory pool should be shared among characters to simplify things. After all, it's basically what you're already doing when shuffle around from alt to bank to alt again.

Best of luck!

This would be nice if inventory across all characters shared at the bank (or at houses... hmm maybe that's a use for them?)