How much of a mule can you make a horse?

Basil_oz · April 2014

One thing about maintenance down time; it gives you the opportunity to ask all those questions that you wonder in game!

Regarding horses, what does the capacity do? It says that it increases carrying capacity, but how?

Does it provide extra slots as a kind of four-leg inventory bag, or does it simply improve speed and stamina stats for the horse?

AlienSlof · April 2014

It just adds the extra slots to your own inventory while ever you have that horse active.

Basil_oz · April 2014

AlienSlof wrote: »

It just adds the extra slots to your own inventory while ever you have that horse active.

Thanks for that slof.

Now when you mean active, do you just mean that that horse is selected and appears on your character tab or do you need to be riding it?

What if you are at capacity with the slots and you either dismount or make another horse active? What happens to the gear that was in the slots associated with the mount?

trinta · April 2014

Basil_oz wrote: »

Now when you mean active, do you just mean that that horse is selected and appears on your character tab or do you need to be riding it?

When it is selected and appears on your character tab. I have no idea what happens if you deselect that horse.

Darlgon · April 2014

You can add up to 50 slots with purchasing from stablehand. So, if you have 50 bag slots purchased, with your Imperial horse chosen, you get 100 bag slot total.
HOWEVER, if you decide you want the new shiney Palamino to ride around, you have to put away your Imperial horse. Viola, you now have only 50 bag slots available. If you have 51 items in your bags, you will get the message like, "your palamino is not available".

Basil_oz · April 2014

trinta wrote: »

I have no idea what happens if you deselect that horse.

Anyone willing to give it a go?!!

You know, just for the sake of research. To appease inquiring minds.

Perhaps hold a few legendary type items that are pretty well impossible to replace... just to make it interesting! Any takers?

Basil_oz · April 2014

Darlgon wrote: »

If you have 51 items in your bags, you will get the message like, "your palamino is not available".

Thanks Darlgon. That answers that. I might add a bit of capacity to my steed now knowing all of that.

Unvalid · April 2014

The horse with extra inventory only applies the extra inventory when it is the active horse and not in an additional stable slot. I don't know what happens if your Inventory is full and you try to switch from a horse with extra inventory bonus to none.

Hawke · April 2014

I think the most back space you can get from a horse is 60 (one of the horses start with 10 storage).

I am sure there will be epic horses later on with more abilities.

Ashtaris · May 2014

Darlgon wrote: »

You can add up to 50 slots with purchasing from stablehand. So, if you have 50 bag slots purchased, with your Imperial horse chosen, you get 100 bag slot total.
HOWEVER, if you decide you want the new shiney Palamino to ride around, you have to put away your Imperial horse. Viola, you now have only 50 bag slots available. If you have 51 items in your bags, you will get the message like, "your palamino is not available".

Well that just sucks. I guess I just made a mistake in ordering the Palomino and will try to get a refund. I would have thought they would have tied the extra bag space to your character rather than a individual horse, or at least provided a way to transfer the extra carrying capacity from one horse to the next. After all, saddle bags are interchangeable.

robynheraty_ESO · May 2014

I've been leveling up the bag space on both of my horses every day. That way they both have the same amount of storage and it doesn't matter which one I feel like riding.