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How to Increase Inventory Space in ESO

By Delia Woolf2017-01-12

The problem of inventory size is one of the most important because there are a lot of different items in Elder Scrolls Online that can be gathered. When you start traveling you find more and more items, resources, runes, reagents and so on. Each player can gather any type of resources and this is where the inventory size becomes very important.

Each character receives 50 inventory slots in the beginning. After you leave the starting zone your inventory will be full and I am pretty sure that you will be looking for a way to increase it. Though each player has access to personal store and guild bank, inventory space is still not enough.

 

 

Decide on a main character

This is extremely important, because in the Elder Scrolls Online bag space is directly linked to each character. Not only that, but bag upgrades can get expensive quickly so you don’t want to spend money on upgrading characters that you won’t play in the end. Choose a character and try to focus all of your resources into upgrading his or her bag space. It takes a while, and costs a lot of money to go from 60 bag slots to 240, the maximum number.

Personal inventory space

Visit a bag merchant at the Marketplace where you can increase your inventory slots by 10, to a new maximum of 70, for 400 gold per increase. The next maximum of 80 Inventory slots will cost you 2 000 gold. The max number of inventory slots is 110.

Buy bigger bags

There are bag vendors and pack merchants in all major cities (and some less major ones too). You can find them on your map mixed in with other vendors. Look for the bag symbol next to their name, as in the picture to the right next to Quaranon. Not all locations where you can buy bags are clearly marked with signage, sometimes it's just a cart, but often you can find a bag vendor by a sign posted outside their shop, like pictured to the right.

 

 

Upgrade your bag size

Upgrade your bag size as often as possible. Since bag upgrade costs go up quickly, it’s important to start saving money. You should upgrade the capacity of your bag whenever you have the chance, because this is the main priority for your starting character. The cost of the upgrade pales in comparison to how much money you can lose if you don’t have space to pick up everything.

Purchase a horse

Once you obtain a horse you can increase his capacity at a Stable in any larger city. This action additionally increases your inventory space. By upgrading your horse’s riding capacity skill you can count on 1 more inventory space every 20 hours, for 250 gold per slot. The max number of inventory slots obtained like this is 60. Fifty days and 15 000 gold later, you’ll have 60 more inventory spaces.

Upgrade your mount

Log in each day to upgrade your mount. A single mount upgrade can be performed each day, and there are other things to upgrade, not only its bag space! This is why it’s extremely important to log on daily and upgrade the storage space at first, because it takes around 60 days to reach the maximum level of storage, without upgrading anything else. Even though each upgrade costs 250 gold, it’s still cheaper than personal inventory upgrades after a while.

 

 

Create another character

Create another character, and get a second mount. An old trick in MMOs is to create additional characters that you use only for storing your excess inventory in, and that works in The Elder Scrolls Online too. Just create a character, skip the tutorial zone and log it out in the nearest bank. Use the 60 slots that each character gets for putting in all the mats you don't need ready access to.

Use the guild bank

At level 10 you can create a guild. With a minimum of 10 members you can use the guild bank with 500 inventory slots. This, however, can be used only by guild members.

Make friends in the guild

After all, that’s why you joined the guild! Making friends in the guild will also have a direct impact on your inventory space. However, first get to know players in the guild, and make some friends that you get to trust in the game. You’ll be able to use the mail system to its full value once you do, and decrease the number of items stored in your inventory.

Mail system

Take advantage of the mail system. As you can’t send mail to yourself, find a trustworthy active player and send him/her items as part of the saving inventory space strategy. Once the player sends you back those items, you can count on 30 days of free storage as the mail last for 30 days.

 

 

Tips

   •Make sure you leave some room in your inventory free before you go out adventuring as you will come across items, crafting materials and so forth.

   •You can put all of your crafting materials in the bank so that all of your characters can access them at any crafting station.

   •Sell things to merchants and deconstruct old equipment to save space.

   •You can increase your inventory space (up to 60 more slots) with a mount active by training your Carrying Capacity Riding Skill.

   •If you are not using certain crafting materials then you can consider selling them to players or to merchants to free up some space. You can always collect or buy some materials later.

   •You don’t have to keep every piece of armor, ever weapon and every other thing that you find in your travels.

   •Try to keep only one “tier” of potions and food in your inventory at any one time. So you can sell off old potions and food if you out level them and find better alternatives.

   •If you are desperate you can create a “mule” character which you can use to store items.

 

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Helpful Links:

Welcome to One Tamriel

ESO's Housing System Coming Soon

 


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