I'm on and off with plus. Sometimes I can't be bothered or am not on enough.

I suggest a second account which can be found for 10$ or lower when on sale. Divide the 8 characters on that account so they can hold specific items. And just mail your excess items to them keeping just what is commonly used for writs. Occasionally there are free ESO+ weeks, use those weeks to mail back all the crafting items to your main account so they get stored in your crafting bag. The second account is also good to use for trading guilds.

You can also take advantage of the recently added storage chests, if you don't want to do the second account thing. Once you start getting into doing master writs on your crafter and save up 1100 vouchers you can buy the 4 60 slot storage chests and the 3 30 slot storage chest. Plus there is another 30 slot chest that you get by leveling a new character to level 18. These chests total will give you storage space for 360 items.

DanteYoda wrote: »

Not sure how you'd craft anything without ESO+ would be extremely time consuming or you'd need a lot of money.

It's called a guild bank.

I have multiple stacks of about every mat in game including yellows

I have max space on bank and toon, just one main crafter, knows all styles.
One 30 space storage box at home storing some provisioning mats, then the rest of the mats and gears are all in the bank and my crafter toon. The toon still has 100 spaces, bank still has 40 spaces. So I don’t see why not.
I don’t want the crafting bags cos I sell extra mats that’s beyond my 1 stack in storage for each mat.
I have 20+ gears stored in the bank as well, and 20 gears stored on the toon.
I don’t use the crown style gems too, I have every style mats in the bank. Every alchemy regents, every provisioning, every trait styles, all in the bank.
I don’t have guild bank or mules toon, and I do all crafting writs daily and master writs.

I remember before ESO+ and the "Bag of Holding". Lol.. (Those that remember AD&D).
It was a nightmare....
I do daily Crafting Writs and Master Writs, (I'm also a GM and take Master Writ donations for Guild Hall), on 10 characters.
With out ESO+ and Crafting bag I could never do it today.
4 years ago, yea, maybe.....
Just my 2 drakes...
Huzzah!

I'm really surprised so many crafters do it without premium! I usually have premium and my plus ran out today and i can't re-up till next month so I'm really bummed about having to play inventory roulette again. Even with every storage container, maxed out bank/inventory, my crafter has no room

I levelled my crafting up back when ESO was subscription based, so no crafting bag, no double bank space, no inspiration bonus, etc. Basically when I did it, it was exactly like it would be now without ESO+.

I had two mule chars collecting unknown traits, three mules for materials and constantly no free bag space. About half an hour each day was spent juggling inventory. Once a week I spent a full session organizing my stuff...

Was worth it anyways!

I keep my bank empty and I use add-ons to auto-deposit all mats into it. If you have the banker assistant, it functions the same as the craft bag.

pay eso+ and forget, dont put yourself on shame guys...

having a guildbank is time consuming as well, u can have 5 guild banks and you still will lose 20 minutes finding mats... just pay for the endless bag...lol its only 13 miserable dollars.

Well, ofc it's harder, ESO+ give you access to additional tools, thus making it easier.

Is it manageable ? Yeah, it's not that bad.

1) Sacrifice a guild slot for a private guild with a few selected friends to use as storage.
2) Make sure to ask mats for specific commissioned jobs.
3) Make a mule and store all the extra mats you don't use often and only keep in the bank the ones you use the most.
4) Stockpile as many food ingredients as you can, then buy a month of ESO+ or take advantage of the free weeks they are doing to put them in your craft bags (food ingredients are the most expensive in terms of bank space), but unless you sell food you don't use them that much. Otherwise use your guild bank to store food ingredients.
5) Don't use your bank to store equipment, use it to store style materials, trait materials, upgrade materials and ~1k of the crafting materials you use the most (e.g. if you mostly play stamina DDs, Rubedo Leather).
6) Only keep max level materials, don't bother with low level ones.
7) Spend money in bank space and inventory slots.
8) Don't keep more than 1 stack (200) of trait materials and style materials, unless they are extra rare. Sell the rest in your guild store or NPC vendors.
9) Don't keep more than 1 stack (200) of any alchemy ingredient you don't use often, use the guild bank to store excess or sell them in guild stores.

It takes a bit more planning, but if you're willing to put in the work, it's manageable.

Sheezabeast wrote: »

Do you manage to be a crafter and manage your materials without ESO+? Is it hard to be a crafter without ESO+?

I did for 2 years. I reckon i earned a masters degree in logistics

I currently have ESO+, but I don’t always. I go off and on. The months I don’t have it, I just keep the items I use frequently in the bank and sell everything else.

I’ve always been the type of crafter without ESO+, it effectively proves how much heart and soul your character puts into their masterworks.

Edit: wrong button. supposed to say that I have a crafter but have no eso+.

I have been playing since the first beta and I've had ESO+ twice. Manage perfectly without the craft bag.

Yes. And it's not as hard as some people claim but it can take a lot of work some days as well as time and energy if you mess up and need to do some inventory management.