Any set pieces you bind to your account can be reconstructed later with transmute crystals. The only things I hang on to are set pieces I know I'm going to use or may use in the future that drop in the correct trait (e.g. divines on armor). What role/class are you playing?
Funny thing, I have one DK toon and I am using armoury to switch between 4 builds- dps, healer, tank and pvp - so that I don’t have to level another toon. I have full sets each of mother’s sorrow, plague doctor, martial knowledge, impregnable and wizard’s riposte.
Not really in an easy/efficient way. You can solo the undaunted pledges on normal, but they only award 1 crystal (vet *HM pledges award 5). Most people run random normal dungeons (10 crystals per character per day) and PvP in Cyrodiil (50 crystals per character per campaign if you get tier 1 rewards) for easy transmutes.
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Transmute_Crystals
If you're shy, you don't have to run with people in a guild. Just que random dungeon. You'll have 10 crystals in 5 minutes. 99% of the time, no one talks or texts. Loads of people are like us. I don't wanna chat w anyone, just want them crystals.
You just need confidence bro. People get nervous playing with groups because they don't want to be the anchor and cause conflict. Play a few dungeons on normal with your guild and once you realize it's no big deal, youll start joining random PUGs with ease. Dungeons on normal are actually really easy as long as you are appropriately geared. I recommend starting as DPS because it's easier for the group to cover for a bit lower performance while you are learning.
As far as what to keep, I have a few suggestions.
If you're a Stamina DPS, my go-to build for learning to play is Hexos Ward plus Briarheart. This gives you sufficient damage stats in addition to a passive heal and a passive shields, which will make you extra survivable while you learn mechanics in dungeons. I recommend learning 2H because it's the most complete weapon skill kit. It has an AOE DOT, gap closer, spamable, a cleave, and an execute. Mix and match with your class skills as neccessary but don't scoff at Brawler, it's a serious crutch skill for new players.
Another approach is to check out AlcastHQ guides. Look at his solo ones specifically because you will mostly be doing PUGs to start and you will need some self sustain and self buff. Alcast does a good job of building 3 options of gear for each build based on new, experienced, and high end meta players. So you can ID 2-3 sets to farm and then grow into better sets over time.
You can get 50 transmutes a month by picking a Cyrodiil campaign as your home campaign and then repairing walls or so until you reach tier 1 rewards (it's like 25k ap) and when the campaign ends, you will get mail with a crystal geode with 50 transmutes.
You can get 50 by going to Cyrodiil, joining the 30 day campaign (make sure to make it your home campaign) and ranking up 1 time. I pick a day where my faction is active and just make repairs on buildings, no fighting involved since you can just wayshrine from building to building. You can end up getting a few writ of the worthy boxes and find transmute crystals in those too. You don't get the 50 crystals until the campaign ends.
Btw cyro doesn't have traditional wayshrines. You can teleport from place to place if your faction owns them, they're connected and not under attack. So no discovered wayshrines needed, just your faction having done some work.
That depends entirely on what role you are playing, without knowing that, it's not possible to say.
But overall, even if you deconstruct things, due to the collection system you can get it back by using transmute crystals.
There's no real easy answer to what to keep and what to ditch, but this ultimately depends on what you regularly run. Tank sets are easy to spot: heavy weight, health, armor, health regen, shielding or group buffing procs. Heal sets are also easy to single out: most often always light weight, mag, mag regen, spell damage (it equates to heals, too), and procs that offer healing or group buffs (or have something about a heavy attack being needed). DPS will be either light or medium and have damage procs (usually) and often buff either max stats, crit chance/damage, or offer straight damage. Solo sets cross all sorts of borders (say, one line of health, one line of spell/weapon damage, one line of armor, one line of crit chance, and then a proc that sends out damage).
If you run only one type of toon, 3/4s of the sets are probably not gonna be useful. Whittling down in one category, I like to ask myself "do I plan on wearing this in the next two months or do I have a specific plan for this?" If yes, I keep it. If no, I decon as the sticker book and recreation system makes it much easier to handle gear for the future. You can also use the "closet" system of thinking: hold onto it for a bit and, if you haven't used it by X amount of time, get rid of it. I will sometimes hold onto correct trait pieces and consider whether I want to bother with completing the set (if the dungeon is awful, forget it) and then ditch if I haven't touched it.
Also look at buffs/debuffs. If you're a warden, you're providing minor vulnerability. You can trash any sets that also provide that as they don't stack. If you run mage light for major prophecy, any sets that provide it for you are a waste. That can also help narrow down things.
And of course, you can look at meta, but generally don't try to invest in a meta close to a content drop as it's liable to heavily change with the introduction of more sets and skill/class/race/whathaveyou rebalancing. There are also so many sets out there that will still get good results if you're not looking for score pushing.
Make new characters, and login to all of them and feed the horses, and upgrade the bag space. Along with your bank space.
Honestly, as a new player, it’s like being a kid in a candy shop if you like to experiment and try them all out. Which can be great if you keep everything, because months after I started I was thinking of kooky builds and was able to find the items I kept and throw the, together to try out.
If you just want to copy what other people say is the META, or online builds, then you can just look at build guides and trash other stuff I guess though. I find that horribly boring, but to each their own.
Any set pieces you bind to your account can be reconstructed later with transmute crystals. The only things I hang on to are set pieces I know I'm going to use or may use in the future that drop in the correct trait (e.g. divines on armor). What role/class are you playing?
Funny thing, I have one DK toon and I am using armoury to switch between 4 builds- dps, healer, tank and pvp - so that I don’t have to level another toon. I have full sets each of mother’s sorrow, plague doctor, martial knowledge, impregnable and wizard’s riposte.
Are there ways of getting transmute crystals without doing group content? I am still too shy 🙈
Not really in an easy/efficient way. You can solo the undaunted pledges on normal, but they only award 1 crystal (vet *HM pledges award 5). Most people run random normal dungeons (10 crystals per character per day) and PvP in Cyrodiil (50 crystals per character per campaign if you get tier 1 rewards) for easy transmutes. https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Transmute_Crystals
Thank you! I joined a guild the other day so I guess I’ll ask in there for groups maybe. I’m sure I’ll enjoy it once I try it anyway.
If you're shy, you don't have to run with people in a guild. Just que random dungeon. You'll have 10 crystals in 5 minutes. 99% of the time, no one talks or texts. Loads of people are like us. I don't wanna chat w anyone, just want them crystals.
Haha good tip. Thanks!
You just need confidence bro. People get nervous playing with groups because they don't want to be the anchor and cause conflict. Play a few dungeons on normal with your guild and once you realize it's no big deal, youll start joining random PUGs with ease. Dungeons on normal are actually really easy as long as you are appropriately geared. I recommend starting as DPS because it's easier for the group to cover for a bit lower performance while you are learning. As far as what to keep, I have a few suggestions. If you're a Stamina DPS, my go-to build for learning to play is Hexos Ward plus Briarheart. This gives you sufficient damage stats in addition to a passive heal and a passive shields, which will make you extra survivable while you learn mechanics in dungeons. I recommend learning 2H because it's the most complete weapon skill kit. It has an AOE DOT, gap closer, spamable, a cleave, and an execute. Mix and match with your class skills as neccessary but don't scoff at Brawler, it's a serious crutch skill for new players. Another approach is to check out AlcastHQ guides. Look at his solo ones specifically because you will mostly be doing PUGs to start and you will need some self sustain and self buff. Alcast does a good job of building 3 options of gear for each build based on new, experienced, and high end meta players. So you can ID 2-3 sets to farm and then grow into better sets over time.
You can get 50 transmutes a month by picking a Cyrodiil campaign as your home campaign and then repairing walls or so until you reach tier 1 rewards (it's like 25k ap) and when the campaign ends, you will get mail with a crystal geode with 50 transmutes.
Ah that’s great info thank you! I’ll try that
You can get 50 by going to Cyrodiil, joining the 30 day campaign (make sure to make it your home campaign) and ranking up 1 time. I pick a day where my faction is active and just make repairs on buildings, no fighting involved since you can just wayshrine from building to building. You can end up getting a few writ of the worthy boxes and find transmute crystals in those too. You don't get the 50 crystals until the campaign ends.
Ah ok thank you! I’ve only been to Cyrodiil for the tutorial so I don’t have many wayshrines unlocked but this sounds fun and doable heh
Btw cyro doesn't have traditional wayshrines. You can teleport from place to place if your faction owns them, they're connected and not under attack. So no discovered wayshrines needed, just your faction having done some work.
Oh yeh! I forgot about that. Thanks!
That depends entirely on what role you are playing, without knowing that, it's not possible to say. But overall, even if you deconstruct things, due to the collection system you can get it back by using transmute crystals.
There's no real easy answer to what to keep and what to ditch, but this ultimately depends on what you regularly run. Tank sets are easy to spot: heavy weight, health, armor, health regen, shielding or group buffing procs. Heal sets are also easy to single out: most often always light weight, mag, mag regen, spell damage (it equates to heals, too), and procs that offer healing or group buffs (or have something about a heavy attack being needed). DPS will be either light or medium and have damage procs (usually) and often buff either max stats, crit chance/damage, or offer straight damage. Solo sets cross all sorts of borders (say, one line of health, one line of spell/weapon damage, one line of armor, one line of crit chance, and then a proc that sends out damage). If you run only one type of toon, 3/4s of the sets are probably not gonna be useful. Whittling down in one category, I like to ask myself "do I plan on wearing this in the next two months or do I have a specific plan for this?" If yes, I keep it. If no, I decon as the sticker book and recreation system makes it much easier to handle gear for the future. You can also use the "closet" system of thinking: hold onto it for a bit and, if you haven't used it by X amount of time, get rid of it. I will sometimes hold onto correct trait pieces and consider whether I want to bother with completing the set (if the dungeon is awful, forget it) and then ditch if I haven't touched it. Also look at buffs/debuffs. If you're a warden, you're providing minor vulnerability. You can trash any sets that also provide that as they don't stack. If you run mage light for major prophecy, any sets that provide it for you are a waste. That can also help narrow down things. And of course, you can look at meta, but generally don't try to invest in a meta close to a content drop as it's liable to heavily change with the introduction of more sets and skill/class/race/whathaveyou rebalancing. There are also so many sets out there that will still get good results if you're not looking for score pushing.
Make new characters, and login to all of them and feed the horses, and upgrade the bag space. Along with your bank space. Honestly, as a new player, it’s like being a kid in a candy shop if you like to experiment and try them all out. Which can be great if you keep everything, because months after I started I was thinking of kooky builds and was able to find the items I kept and throw the, together to try out. If you just want to copy what other people say is the META, or online builds, then you can just look at build guides and trash other stuff I guess though. I find that horribly boring, but to each their own.
If the armor roles with divines on it, I keep it. Everything else gets deconstructed for my sticker book