In order:

Yes.
Maybe.
Stuff.

I did but now I have enough people in my little guild to use the guild bank so we are using that for our extra stuff and now I'm leveling all 8 of my characters.

I have eight characters. One is my crafter, one I play with my cousin, one is my main, one is a name-holder who hangs on to my extra pets and IE items, and the rest are mules. 60 slots each, and I have no reason to upgrade them currently.

I have one mule to hold armour and weapons with traits I don't know, one for provisioning materials, one for alchemy and enchanting runes/ingredients, and one for my tempers, trait stones, etc. I may have to improve my alch mule inventory space, but we will see; I may or may not do that.

Personally I leave my shared bank mostly empty, and then when I have a full inventory I spend ten minutes hopping to three to four characters and back to my main.

No, each account joins a guild only once. Every character you log into has access to all your guilds with the same permissions settings.

Have you tried doing all crafts ?

Just the Provisioning ingredients rank 2 and above, those starting with the letters h up to letter z, take up about 50 spaces in my main bank. I then add all the clothing/leather/blacksmithing materials that can be transformed. These, in all, take up about 65 slots of my main bank.

My crafter takes off the main bank the other transformed mats (eg.: ingots while leaving the ore on my main bank).

One of my characters does Alchemy, so he grabs all alchemistic ingredients off the main bank to save space.

Another does Enchanting and his backpack is filled with only rune stones (no glyphs as I deconstruct them all in the desperate attempt to one day reach Enchanting 20).


I am surprised you even ask the question.

Baraz wrote: »

Have you tried doing all crafts ?

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I am surprised you even ask the question.

Yes I have maxed provisioning, which was kind of why I was asking. I wondered how other people store all the crap you need for it. I dump mine every time I go to a new area because the mats and recipes are different.

Does anyone think a mats tab in your bank would work? A tab that you could ONLY put crafting mats on??

Khandi wrote: »

Do people really make storage alts?

Do they buy them upgrades on bag space?

What do they store on these storage alts?

I wouldn't be surprised; since it is possible however I personally find it to be to much effort. I like to have a clean and trim inventory before I begin questing while keeping crafting items in the bank.

@Khandi a crafting tab would be nice but with the sheer number of materials in the game it would either be massive or it would be a band-aid on a gaping wound. This game has as many items as a regular TES game....except instead of being cups and plates and forks and other junk, it's all useable crafting materials.

RylukShouja wrote: »

@Khandi a crafting tab would be nice but with the sheer number of materials in the game it would either be massive or it would be a band-aid on a gaping wound. This game has as many items as a regular TES game....except instead of being cups and plates and forks and other junk, it's all useable crafting materials.

Lulz....remember picking up the cup when you were trying to steal that soul stone

And yes I suppose you are right that the sheer number of mats may make it prohibitive.

Sarenia wrote: »

Storage alts are a necessity.

Where else would I store all my stolen cheese wheels and sweet rolls??

I bet if you shared with Sheogorath he'd give you a nice place in the Shivering Isles to store it.

It might cost you your soul, but such is the price of cheese.

@khandi I find it helps for the blacksmithing, clothing, and woodworking to keep trait stones, tempers, and all but one type of racial stone on an alt. the. All you have to have in your inventory is stacks of the raw and refined materials. Alchemy ingredients are manageable if you just make potions every time you bank, and runes just take up an assload of space no matter which way you look at.

Because I have an alt for crafting I tend to sit on piles of material, which I don't necessarily need to do. If my main was crafting I would probably require less storage space because I would do crafting runs more than once a week. :P

The only thing I do regularly is break down armour and research traits, since those don't stack.

Khandi wrote: »

Do people really make storage alts?

Yes, I have several

Do they buy them upgrades on bag space?

sometimes

What do they store on these storage alts?

Storage Unit 1 = provisioning resources (2 bag upgrades)

Storage Unit 2 = enchanting runes (no bag upgrades)

Storage Unit 3 = Crafting style resources as well as weapons/armor that need to be researched (2 bag upgrades)

I don't use mules, I find the practice too labor intensive. For me, I'd much rather just vendor everything that the character I'm on doesn't need and worry about my alts when I play them.

However, that's not to say I won't throw a really nice item that would be perfect for an alt in the bank and log over for them to hold on to it, but it's gotta be pretty nice to be worth the effort.

For example, I picked up this legendary sword and board set from some guy selling it on /zone chat for a song, and I threw it on my level 3 DK tank that I don't have any plans of playing any time soon. That was worth the trouble.

My shared bank has got a ton of enchanting ingredients, simply because unlike the other crafts I've tried, I've found enchanting nearly impossible to level as I go. It's also got all the trait gems for crafting and the primal/barbaric/daedric style materials I've picked up from deconstructing. Oh, I also store all the upgrade materials for heavy, medium, and light armor in there as well.

A lot of people are asking for a crafting bank, well, that's exactly what I have. It also has plenty of room to shuffle the odd item worth saving for later to an alt that might use it.