The crystals are supposed to be a last resort to grinding for the gear you want, not a replacement.

ZOS doesn't actually want lots of player hoarding up tons of stones so they can transmute brand new gear as soon as new content drops. Hence the Crystal cap and the restrictions on storing geodes.

My workaround around the 200 limit:
1) I always keep a priorities list of items I want to transmute, and when the crystals in the "wallet" are near the limit, let's say 188/200, I go and transmute an item from that list. The incoming crystals are the ones that come in small numbers (2,3,5,10), like the ones from the RFTW mails, weekly trial coffers & pledges.
2) The big geodes containing 50 crystals, that come from 30 days campaign rewards I just fork to mule characters by simply getting the mail on the PvP character, reading it, but leaving the attachments there. What i do next is to log the mule character and take the attachment, including the geode, that stays bound to his backpack and can be used at will when I need it to release 50 crystals into the "wallet".
It has worked quite well in the year and a half since the transmute system was introduced.

VaranisArano wrote: »

The crystals are supposed to be a last resort to grinding for the gear you want, not a replacement.

ZOS doesn't actually want lots of player hoarding up tons of stones so they can transmute brand new gear as soon as new content drops. Hence the Crystal cap and the restrictions on storing geodes.

As long as this remains the philosophy of the Devs, we will not see and increase in the amount of crystals we can store.

They should just remove the cap. It's not a cap on transmute crystals, just an annoyance to have to keep them in my inventory as geodes instead.

You can say it's a last resort all you want. That doesn't make the inventory management mess the proper way to keep the number of crystals in check. The 200 cap is a soft cap that doesn't actually prevent acquiring additional crystals. The only purpose of the cap is to push the "real" cap onto your inventory instead. Horrible design.

blacksabsub17_ESO wrote: »

How about a reliable way for Pve'ers to obtain crystals. That would be swell.

Yeah, and while yer at it, ZOS, make trial loot drop in pvp!

VaranisArano wrote: »

The crystals are supposed to be a last resort to grinding for the gear you want, not a replacement.

ZOS doesn't actually want lots of player hoarding up tons of stones so they can transmute brand new gear as soon as new content drops. Hence the Crystal cap and the restrictions on storing geodes.

Then that's an old blue print that's very outdated. Most modern games don't have a "Grind" anymore for gear, they have means of obtaining gear without dedicating days, weeks, etc. to the grind. Diablo, WoW, and so on. One method is called itemization, this game severely lacks good itemization.