I buy more houses to keep my stuff in

Returning player after over a year+

Have ESO+, fully upgraded bank and 7 characters with fully upgraded inventories.

Really just looking for some good general tips that I can implement right away,

Housing and Housing Storage is a bit of a far off goal at the moment and definitely something I'm working towards. Can always created more characters, but for right now I want to focus on farming the event as much as possible.

As for sets I've yet to get around to really researching much of anything so I've just been hanging onto pretty much any set items I find. Used to only keep blue and above, but now I'm hesitant to deconstruct even green items. Don't want to get rid of an item with a perfect trait and at the sametime also want to hold on to non-dungeon looted set items for selling in the future, trading guild/guild trader are/is another thing I haven't really gotten around to setting up/looking into too much yet.

I've already started trimming items with some not so great traits that are a little more obvious(reinforced, defending, etc). For armor I've been holding onto Sturdy, Invigorating, Well Fitted, Inpreg, and Divines, for weapons I've been holding onto Sharpened, Precise, Infused, Decisive, Powered for Restoration Staves and Charged for Destruction Staves.

What would help the most right now are some good tips/rules of thumb that I can start implementing right way

Shadow_Viper_vX wrote: »

What would help the most right now are some good tips/rules of thumb that I can start implementing right way

Just keep the good traits.

ImmortalCX wrote: »

Shadow_Viper_vX wrote: »

What would help the most right now are some good tips/rules of thumb that I can start implementing right way

Just keep the good traits.

Mistake. Good traits contribute to our...I mean the TC's issues

Just face it. You can't.

The first step is to NOT keep one of every trait for research, that's over 400 slots right there. From your inventory, research the most important traits first because the late ones take literally 2 months and you'd rather be able to craft something already. You will always find more traits for research, or do what I do and commission research items from guildies.

(for example: I start with armor: divines, impregnable, infused,training and nirn. Weapons: sharpened, nirn, infused, precise and training for the heck of it)

Kill your darlings.

Take 1 hour of your time. Set an alarm. Go into your bank and inventory. Unless it´s a gold piece, a piece that is extremely hard to get, or a set you know you will use, it has to go. Period. I had this issue too, eventually you just need to get over the hurdle and deconstruct. It will be a huge quality of life improvement. Unlock, spam decon hotkeys E + R. I used to have a bunch of knigh-errant stuff. I still think it is a useful set. But did I use it? Nope. So now I only have 6 pieces left in the bank, 2 of which are jewelry and 1 weapon since they are harder to get for a dungeon set. Might try to combine it with Blackrose prison weapons. Or it might have to go.

Mighty Chudan light head piece in well-fitted? Decon. I already have a gold medium helmet. I want a heavy, but not that much, and if I *need* it, I´ll suck it up and do the dungeon again and retrait my first heavy loot if necessary.

There is no reason to keep tons of items for trait research as you only need 1-2 researchers, you can buy scrolls to reduce research time, and once a trait is researched you can create that item, research it on an alt and 'spread' your research - if you want to do that for some reason. But do research right away. Keep research slots filled.

Personally I divided my research between 2 characters, my main speedrunning character and my 'slow questing' character.

Keep jewelry if you must keep something.

My bank now pretty much only has sets I realistically think I might use, plus assorted other stuff. The rest had to go. It was hard at first, but hoarding is a problem and getting better at getting rid of stuff is a skill. And there is no way to improve a skill if you don´t practice it.

You have to do what we in Sweden call a 'cleaning pull'.

ImmortalCX wrote: »

Shadow_Viper_vX wrote: »

What would help the most right now are some good tips/rules of thumb that I can start implementing right way

Just keep the good traits.

.....And those are?

MaleAmazon wrote: »

....And those are?

Infused on head, chest, legs and I believe shield. Divines on everything else (and head, chest, legs, just infused is better on 'large enchant' pieces especially with tristat enchants). Impenetrable for PvP. Otherwise keep stuff if you have a personal use for it. Invigorating is considered bad, which only makes me want to put it on everything and make a massive regen build

Weapons - infused, sharpened, nirnhoned... precise I guess.

Oh and remember you can transmute to any trait that you have researched for that item.

Thank you for confirming, correcting, and expanding knowledge :-D

It's harder now with transmute, I used to decon every bad trait. Now dungeon sets I keep, and purple jewelry aside from mega common stuff.

But I have a maxed bank, storage containers, a mule or two and still run out of space.

Containers are epic for monster helms/shoulders, vMA / Asylum weapons etc. I keep all them