Oh, I don't think you're wrong. However, I don't use the armory at all.

I do think the per character thing is definitely a "gouge".

For me it would just be good if you could deposit gear into your bank using the armory and withdraw gear from bank also using armory.

In practice you could then use the armory to deposit everything you are wearing using one botton, log onto another character and equip a build that uses some/all of those pieces with one click of botton.

OBJnoob wrote: »

I don't have any armory slots on any characters and I personally think it's pretty lame that people are doing trials using one set-up for trash and then switching set-ups for free and at the push of a button to do the boss.

PC has this already with wardrobe add-ons that are free to use and allowed by ZoS and the armoury would have been the perfect opportunity to give console the same chance, but no, it was decided that the armoury person cannot be used in veteran trials or any content (arenas, archive) that has a score.

So whether it's lame to switch sets or not, it's not possible to do so using the armoury assistant in a vet trial

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

Altoholic. I have 3 of every class on one account, working on another 20 on a second account. Both use the bottom slot as a soft reset, top slot as the most common build I use. Have no use for extra slots.

Makes me sad it's not possible to have 3 of every class. give me that last character slot ZoS!

OBJnoob wrote: »

I don't have any armory slots on any characters and I personally think it's pretty lame that people are doing trials using one set-up for trash and then switching set-ups for free and at the push of a button to do the boss.

On one hand I suppose I'm just an idiot because I change my setups a lot and it costs me gold to redo my skills and CP every time.

On the other hand I just think the game is becoming too easy. What other people call "quality of life" I think of as borderline exploiting... Except it's not exploiting, because I guess that's just the way it's done now.

I like the challenge of having a set-up that's good at a lot of things. Or at least can complete one goddang thing without drastic changes mid-way. I don't know why that ever stopped being a thing.

I'm the same way; I just use one build, one gear set, one skill bar setup, on my main regardless of what type of content I'm doing. Well, I do temporarily swap my Ultimate when I want to solo Wuyuvus, and I swap one of my CP skills when I'm fencing stolen goods. I also temporarily remove my heavy armor when I'm doing a Thieves Guild or Dark Brotherhood daily, so I can sneak around undetected more easily. But other than that, I'm not into respeccing my stats, switching gear, totally switching my skills, etc. I've never once used the Armory (yet), although I did buy the assistant when it was on sale, and even bought an extra slot for each of my mains, intending that someday I'll eventually start using the Armory-- maybe.

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7. Allow Roles, Personalities, Mounts, and Titles to be saved as part of Armory saved builds. It's quite annoying swapping from one build to another, then queuing for a dungeon, only to remember you forgot to change your group Role. Builds are centered on a specific Role anyway; it should be saved as part of the build. Personalities, Mounts, and Titles would be awesome, additional build aspects that go along with saved Outfits! Kind of surprising we don't have this already.
19. Add the ability to share builds with other players. It's extremely common for players to ask other players about their build (CP slotted, sets used, traits, Skills and morphs, ect). It would be really helpful to be able to share Armory builds via a clickable link, similar to how we share housing links in chat.
51. Allow players to lock Armory builds. Every single time I go to equip a build, I worry that I'm going to accidentally save over my build instead! The notifications for "Are you sure you want to equip Build X?" and "Are you sure you want to save over Build X"? are IMPERCEPTIBLY different. They use the SAME Accept key bind, and offer absolutely no safeguards. If I accidentally press "R" instead of "E", maybe because they're right next to each other on the board, and instinctively press "E" again, then I just created an hour of work having to put my build back together (skills, mundus, transformation, sets) from pure memory ...

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I think giving the Armory Assistant a separate inventory for storing armory builds is too Pay-to-Win. Instead, if they are going to keep it a per Character purchase, I'd like to see the cost changed to a cost dependent on how many slots the player has. Starting players with only 1 Armory Slot is very limiting. Make the first upgrade cost 500 Crowns, the second 1000, the third 1500, ect.

How many slots does the average player, that uses the Armory system, end up purchasing? Personally, I purchased 4 upgrades (5 total) on my main so that I can have Tank, Healer, DPS, PvP builds + 1 slot to mess around with. My alts just have 1 upgrade each for whatever roles I wanted them for + PvP.

I think they should use a system similar to what SWTOR does. If you purchase the armory slot with crowns it's unlocked for your entire account. If you purchase a slot with gold then it's character specific.

Regarding the armory backpack, it would be acceptable only if it's optional to use. I use healer sets across all classes so I don't want them locked up in the armor for only one toon when they're a pain to gold out.

Rageypoo wrote: »

So we all use em...

I don't. I was going to use it for the first time recently but honestly don't feel comfortable with how it is set up.

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

Altoholic. I have 3 of every class on one account, working on another 20 on a second account. Both use the bottom slot as a soft reset, top slot as the most common build I use. Have no use for extra slots.

Yes, the solution is to have one character per role/build and simply switch characters rather than setups. I have 20 characters but still use both armoury slots on a lot of them, the lack of a third stops me playing around with setups too much.

1500 per slot per character is over the top, even a discounted 'multi character' purchase might entice more people. They could be stored the same as name and race change tokens are stored in the character selection screen.

Tyrant_Tim wrote: »

Twohothardware wrote: »

The Crown price for armory slots is fine if they were account wide. I bought a couple on different characters not realizing they were tied to that character and was honestly put off and don't plan on buying any more.

No they are definitely not.

1,500 x 7? That’s 10,500 Crowns. Ridiculous.

Edit; Sorry, I forgot you start with 2, not 3. You would need to spend 12,000 Crowns even if it was simplified to account-wide.

You definitely don't need 10 armoury slots per character, even if you stayed with the 'free' 10 character slots. You still need to carry the gear you're not using, which would mean up to a potential 130-140 slots just for armour/weapons/jewelry, and no sane person is going to waste those slots on every character.

Most people would be happy with an extra 2 or 3 slots per character and even then, only use them all on a few. The only exceptions I see are those that only play a single character and use it for everything.