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The eternal struggle of storage space
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Twilanthe✭✭✭I have my max bag space and even have the big to boost it that final like 5 spots.
I've got all the storage boxes, all the bag upgrades, all the storage I could possibly get short of making bank alts (I just have one character).
My solution thus far has been to entirely load the Grand Psijic Villa with all my extra furnishings I don't need.Lüc - Argonian Necromancer Healer
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Tigerseye✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Not only that, but even games without a sub model (like GW2) provide the opportunity to purchase extra bag and bank room every time they release new content.
So, even if you don't sub to ESO+, you should be able to buy it separately here, too.0 -
Starlock✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭- Don't hold onto gear you don't need or have any plans to use.
- Don't buy furnishings you don't need or have any plans to use.
- Don't hold onto motifs you don't plan to learn or use.
- Basically, don't hold onto anything you don't need or plan to use....
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AlnilamE✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Honestly, I feel that if we has 1000 bank slots I'd still run out of space, because the more room you have, the more overwhelming cleaning up becomes.
It's just a matter of "spring cleaning" every once in a while and making sure you only keep what you need.
As others have said, keep stuff that's hard to get (weapons and jewelry from dungeons) or stuff that you plan to use soon. Everything else, you can get again.Not only that, but even games without a sub model (like GW2) provide the opportunity to purchase extra bag and bank room every time they release new content.
So, even if you don't sub to ESO+, you should be able to buy it separately here, too.
...with real money.The Moot Councillor0 -
pauld1_ESO✭✭✭✭The game drops a gazillion things with everything you do creating these inventory management issues. You can either play the inventory mini-game, pay tens of thousands in gold to upgrade space, or BUY OFF CROWN STORE. Which one do you think they're banking (no pun intended) on?
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[edited for bashing]Edited by ZOS_RogerJ on May 26, 2020 4:34PM0 -
RageKing✭✭✭✭Im also kind f a hoarder. I maxed out character slots at 18 and leveled most of my toons inv to 170 which is 3k storage. then i have 2 guild banks soley for me plus my bank so thats another like 1400. 360 storage from housing. so almost 5k storage. if that isnt enough you could use all 5 of guild spots for your personal bank storage for another 1500 space.
And for the cherry on top... buy another account and use as a mule. I have a second account for this purpose but i dont use it because I have enough space as is.
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FrancisCrawford✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭Let's see.- I've filled all 18 character slots. All but the newest have their full extra 60 slots from riding skills. And of course I've bought them each a bunch of extra backpack space as well.
- I happen to be lucky enough to control the bank of one basically defunct guild and to be the main user of the bank for another.
- My wife is happy to refuse emails for me.
- I'm in three well-located trading guilds (Mournhold, Rawlk'ha/Vivec City, Wayrest/Belkarth).
So I've hoarded a lot of stuff. Space is tight even so. Awkwardly, the most lucrative or quickest stuff to sell is usually stuff that doesn't free up bank space, for example:- Various kinds of things that stack, in regular inventory or craft bags as the case may be.
- Stuff received from crafting writs that other crafters will use as breakdown items.
- Stuff I see in other guild stores that is so cheap I can flip it quickly.
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xaraan✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Here's what I do:
Saving: Storage in MMOs isn't so you can save everything you come across like single player games. If you really want to save something "has potential" or "might be good one day" then you should only save the jewelry (if gold, maybe purple) and weapons. Any body pieces are easy to re-farm. Never save craftable stuff after it's been a few patches (maybe exception for jewelry), if it's good years down the road, re-craft it IMO. Never save zone drops you are not going to use for something immediately, those items are almost always on guild traders regularly, especially if they are from a good set (exception for picking a weapon of perfect trait I could see). For boss heads, I'll usually save one of each size type and if I want to cut that down I'll cut heads over shoulders since I can refarm heads easily and should cost currency to re-aquire.
Anything not gear sets like recipes and such either get used or sold immediately. If you have a lot of stored up items to move, then start moving them. Price the stuff to go (you don't have to lose your shirt on them, just price them at a going rate and they will go, especially if you use TTC and actually make sure your items get posted to the site). If you have 300 recipes and motifs to sell, you may only get 30 slots, but it would only take a week to move probably 100+ of that if you prices it competitively.
For storage, I keep 2 large chests of undaunted pieces, 1 large chest of extra tanking gear that isn't worth keeping in bank, 1 large chest of weapons, 2 small chests of jewelry, 1 small chest of extra gear and 1 small chest of extra pvp gear. All of those are about 80% full. That's where I tend to keep the "just in case" it's useful again or finally stuff and why it's mostly jewelry and weapons.
Organization: Housing can eat up a lot of space, but I have a few homes that I don't use for decorating and use for storage. I separate these homes into one for lighting, one for basic furniture and another for specialty furnishings. You can also unload furnishings that are not bound by selling them in guild traders.
Also on organizing gear- I keep the most common sets on each of my characters. For example, I have a tank of each class, and each tank is carrying the typical Ebon/Yoln/Alkosh + monster sets gear and a gear set for questing. All other sets that have niche uses for tanking like say Eternal Yokeda or Defiled Dragon, etc. I keep one set in the bank that any tank could pull out to use for a particular need, then put it back when done. And of those sets I typically keep only the jewelry/weapons (because I'd drop alkosh for them). This is the same for DPS, though I don't have nearly as many 'just in case' type set ups for DPS, usually what's good is good. And I keep a few general use things in the bank like extra soul gems and repair kits, the different food and pots for daily writs, some of the rewards we get like crown food.
As a player that does pve and pvp, housing, raiding, questing etc. I will say it is possible to keep a good inventory, but you have to stay on top of it or it becomes a job trying to get it fixed. For me things stay at about -100 items on each character that way they have 100+ slots for whatever they pick up, bank is normally 100+ short, trying to keep it under 360 for throwing something in the bank for crafter to deal with or move between characters, and chests kept at about 80%. This gives me some buffer for being lazy for a time or farming or whatever might cause an inventory bubble. If you have any extra character you want to use as mules, you'll be in an even better spot than I am.
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Mancombe_Nosehair✭✭✭✭✭Ask yourself a question: if a set you have was buffed, could you get it again easily? If the answer is yes, then get shot of it.
The only exception would be jewellery and weapons, but even some of these could be obtained fairly easily.
I don't have plus, and do have a crafter, and don't have any inventory management issues.0 -
idk✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭With almost all character slots filled and all characters having max storage and still finding the bank filing up I have come to realize I hoard a lot of stuff I have never used and will probably never use.
I started correcting this by going through and organizing it all so I could eliminate having 6 sets of gear that I was not wearing anymore to only one or two sets. For the gear that I have never worn I kept weapons and rings, mostly.
After all that I still have a lot of stuff that I will never use but I was able to clear out half of the junk I had hoarded. It is a constant process to prevent from returning to everything being chocked full of junk.
Basically, I realized that I was a victim of my own hoarding, that no matter how much storage space I had it would fill up to the brim unless I actively cleaned the closets of useless junk.0 -
Mancombe_Nosehair✭✭✭✭✭Here's what I do:
Saving: Storage in MMOs isn't so you can save everything you come across like single player games. If you really want to save something "has potential" or "might be good one day" then you should only save the jewelry (if gold, maybe purple) and weapons. Any body pieces are easy to re-farm. Never save craftable stuff after it's been a few patches (maybe exception for jewelry), if it's good years down the road, re-craft it IMO. Never save zone drops you are not going to use for something immediately, those items are almost always on guild traders regularly, especially if they are from a good set (exception for picking a weapon of perfect trait I could see). For boss heads, I'll usually save one of each size type and if I want to cut that down I'll cut heads over shoulders since I can refarm heads easily and should cost currency to re-aquire.
Anything not gear sets like recipes and such either get used or sold immediately. If you have a lot of stored up items to move, then start moving them. Price the stuff to go (you don't have to lose your shirt on them, just price them at a going rate and they will go, especially if you use TTC and actually make sure your items get posted to the site). If you have 300 recipes and motifs to sell, you may only get 30 slots, but it would only take a week to move probably 100+ of that if you prices it competitively.
For storage, I keep 2 large chests of undaunted pieces, 1 large chest of extra tanking gear that isn't worth keeping in bank, 1 large chest of weapons, 2 small chests of jewelry, 1 small chest of extra gear and 1 small chest of extra pvp gear. All of those are about 80% full. That's where I tend to keep the "just in case" it's useful again or finally stuff and why it's mostly jewelry and weapons.
Organization: Housing can eat up a lot of space, but I have a few homes that I don't use for decorating and use for storage. I separate these homes into one for lighting, one for basic furniture and another for specialty furnishings. You can also unload furnishings that are not bound by selling them in guild traders.
Also on organizing gear- I keep the most common sets on each of my characters. For example, I have a tank of each class, and each tank is carrying the typical Ebon/Yoln/Alkosh + monster sets gear and a gear set for questing. All other sets that have niche uses for tanking like say Eternal Yokeda or Defiled Dragon, etc. I keep one set in the bank that any tank could pull out to use for a particular need, then put it back when done. And of those sets I typically keep only the jewelry/weapons (because I'd drop alkosh for them). This is the same for DPS, though I don't have nearly as many 'just in case' type set ups for DPS, usually what's good is good. And I keep a few general use things in the bank like extra soul gems and repair kits, the different food and pots for daily writs, some of the rewards we get like crown food.
As a player that does pve and pvp, housing, raiding, questing etc. I will say it is possible to keep a good inventory, but you have to stay on top of it or it becomes a job trying to get it fixed. For me things stay at about -100 items on each character that way they have 100+ slots for whatever they pick up, bank is normally 100+ short, trying to keep it under 360 for throwing something in the bank for crafter to deal with or move between characters, and chests kept at about 80%. This gives me some buffer for being lazy for a time or farming or whatever might cause an inventory bubble. If you have any extra character you want to use as mules, you'll be in an even better spot than I am.
This is really good advice. I do most of this myself, apart from housing, which I don't do apart from chests etc.0 -
illutian✭✭✭Only hang on to what I want to use; that's how I manage inventory.
Crafting Bag really helps out. - Look, if I can 'e' it, I'm taking it.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.0
