Totally agree with that second part. As it is, I am clicking through every armor/weapon piece, and then clicking back to the research spot for it to see if I can deconstruct it or should save it for research...one at a time.

I thought I was the only one obsessing over this, for every 2 hours of questing, I spend about 30mins travelling back to town and shuffling loot between alts.

Currently at 120 Bank slots, 100 on main character + upgrading horse.

It's down to these solutions;
ZOS doubles storage capacity(Not going to happen)
Vendor all loot now, then return to farming at V10.
Restrict myself to two crafting professions.
Decide a game of Inventory Management isn't exciting enough and cancel subscription.

I tend to be pretty conservative about addons, and my preference is to stick with the default UI where I can, but the issue with sorting researched and researchable items got time-consuming enough that I started using an addon called Research Assistant. I'm absolutely thrilled with it. My inventory breaks, even with a spreadsheet of my research open on my second monitor, had been creeping up towards ten or even twenty minutes, depending on how many drops I'd found. It's not an exaggeration to say that with Research Assistant the length of my inventory sorting dropped by close to an order of magnitude.

It's brilliant, simple and unobtrusive enough that this kind of functionality might well belong in the default UI. Until then, though, at least it's an available tool.

I found it at esoui.com, fyi.

If they would increase drop rates on items, such as aspect runes, better quality gear and reduce the amount of time it takes to research on the high end, it would help free up inventory space a lot quicker. I mean really, my enchanter is packed full of runes he can't do anything with because I can't get enough aspect runes to complete enchanting skills. Why? Because the bots are hoarding the spawn nodes and the amount of xp you get for crafting and decon is in my opinion absolutely ridiculous. My clothier, blacksmith and wood wooker inventory is packed full of pieces that are waiting to research but guess what? It takes 7 days just to research one piece...lol. I can't understand why provisioning gets massive amounts of xp for baking cookies from large amounts of items that are easily and quickly picked up in every container. I mean cook something 5 times and you have leveled up a whole bar. Craft 50 daggers and decon them from materials that took you several hours or days to gather and wow, I think my xp bar moved just a little. For real? Another thing is why do we have to depend on another player to get more xp from deconstruction? My crafting profession should never have to depend on someone else who has absolutely nothing to do with my account or what I chose to do as a profession. Does not make sense to me, but anyway my alts all sit as mules right now because I cannot play with more than one vestige due to inventory overload. Tell me to sell my stuff? Why sell what I am needing to finish grinding out my crafting? So I can pay massive amounts of gold to someone else to buy the same gear I already had to research? Now that there are fixed loot and spawn timers on everything, it is only adding to the dilemma of getting the crafting professions finished, not to mention the borked spawn nodes and the bots still owning every land mass in the game. Not making this an I am really upset at ESO, because that is not the case. I love the game and will continue playing. I think that some things really need to be looked at and need a drastic overhaul of certain function, timers, scaling of cost etc........Just seems a little unbalanced.

nsuterryb14_ESO wrote: »

"don't pick up food" is not an option. Barrels are the only place you can get those prized rare crafting motifs. I've only gotten Primal so far, but I really want the rest as well.

Who forces you to"take all"?

I'd be happiest I think If I could simply mail items to my crafter. Even with the maximum amount of space I can get, I still waste 30-45 minutes logging/relogging/crashing and such trying to get items moved over to him.

And yes, the amount of mats one has to have in the bank for crafting professions is pretty insane given the space allowed.

Personally, I don't need a second breakdown of all of the inventory tabs. I don't mind scrolling through weapons, armors, consumables because I'm never really carrying many.

Having the mats tab broken up by craft would be an immeasurable help, though. I run two alts to craft, and my husband runs 3. We both are mailing and trading mats constantly back and forth, and not having to scroll through the entire list just to find the alchemy ingredients I want to send him would be incredibly helpful.

One if my crafters does carpentry AND enchanting, and here again having those mats on separate tabs would make inventory management much less of a chore.

+1

Thanks @squeeze‌ !! I'll look in to this. :-)

Evandus wrote: »

I'd be happiest I think If I could simply mail items to my crafter. Even with the maximum amount of space I can get, I still waste 30-45 minutes logging/relogging/crashing and such trying to get items moved over to him.

And yes, the amount of mats one has to have in the bank for crafting professions is pretty insane given the space allowed.

@Evandus the addon you need is called wykkyd's mail return bot, and you need a friend/guildmate who has it as well. you mail them the stuff with RETURN in the title and when they open their mail inventory it automatically returns it to you. Myself and 3 other guildies have it and use so we dont vendor our trait styles we need to research

The enchanting system does feel like one of those promotions where you have to collect 3 of a set to win $1000, but they only make one of them appear 1 out of 1000 times.

Personally, I find Mule Simulator Online to be quite a soothing way to while away a few hours till my friends come online.

Thanks for posting that AI Research Grid. Looks great and will definitely be checking it out.

The whole bank space/ organizing thing rubs me the wrong way as well. I get so bored with this game when I find myself logging in/out of alts just to manage materials.

It's a real problem when you are trying to run more than one character. Even if it is just one extra toon you have essentially cut the bank space in half since they are lvl dependent.

knaveofengland wrote: »

admit it we are hoarders

Yes we are..

The problem is that unlike many games that have only so many recipes - and therefore only so many things you can make, ESO has made it that you never quite know what you'll need. Today's junk can be tomorrows "WTB stack of XYZ".

I don't have a problem with this but the way our inventory is sorted for us makes me feel like I'm playing a game that will get me a job running a warehouse or was designed by a sadomasochist.

I know there are add-ons to assist, but really, once again ZOS have decided to implement a design so they can say "Hey, our MMO is different from the others" without consideration that sometimes, it's okay to use an a design that other games use - because it's been tested and it actually works - and players are happy with it.

Thistlegoat wrote: »

I tend to be pretty conservative about addons, and my preference is to stick with the default UI where I can, but the issue with sorting researched and researchable items got time-consuming enough that I started using an addon called Research Assistant. I'm absolutely thrilled with it. My inventory breaks, even with a spreadsheet of my research open on my second monitor, had been creeping up towards ten or even twenty minutes, depending on how many drops I'd found. It's not an exaggeration to say that with Research Assistant the length of my inventory sorting dropped by close to an order of magnitude.

It's brilliant, simple and unobtrusive enough that this kind of functionality might well belong in the default UI. Until then, though, at least it's an available tool.

I found it at esoui.com, fyi.

Thanks, I'll look into it

@squeeze‌ @Evandus‌ Thanks a TON for your mod suggestions. Advanced Filters downloaded and in, and I'll be checking out the Research Grid this evening.

So far, Advanced Filters is making a HUGE difference for me. I'm hoping research grid will allow me to quit playing with a notebook at hand, as good old paper and pen is how I've been tracking my research/motifs known across 4 chars so far!!