Some suggestions, mostly quality of life, obvious things

Let us leave the retainer's inventory window open while checking other windows. The majority of my retainer's inventory is crafting ingredients, and I'd like to be able to reference my crafting log while choosing which items to pick up. The usual pattern is currently:

1. open crafting log
2. check ingredients for the first recipe I'm interested in, finding I'll need ingredients A, B, and C (among others).
3. close the crafting log
4. use bell to summon my retainer
5. acknowlege her greeting
6. select that I want to transfer items
7. pick up ingredients A, B, and C
8. close the retainer window
9. acknowlege her farewell
10. open crafting log
11. check for the next ingredients I'll need, finding I'll need ingredients D, E, and F.
12. close the crafting log
13. use bell to summon my retainer
14. acknowlege her greeting
15. select that I want to transfer items
16. pick up ingredients D, E, and F
17. close the retainer window
18. acknowlege her farewell
19. open crafting log
20. check for the next ingredients I'll need, finding I'll need ingredients G, H, and I.
21. close the crafting log
22. use bell to summon my retainer
23. acknowlege her greeting
24. select that I want to transfer items
25. pick up ingredients G, H, and I
26. close the retainer window
27. acknowlege her farewell
28. open crafting log
29. check for the next ingredients I'll need, finding I'll need ingredients J, K, and L.
30. close the crafting log
31. use bell to summon my retainer
32. acknowlege her greeting
33. select that I want to transfer items
34. pick up ingredients J, K, and L
35. close the retainer window
36. acknowlege her farewell
37. get fed up with all this going back and forth and decide to just get started
38. begin crafting
39. get stuck because I didn't pick up the rest of the ingredients I needed

I'm not asking to be able to craft directly with items in my retainer's inventory (though I know others have asked for that), but please let us see what it is we need to pick up while we're also on the window to pick it up from. Don't require that we have to dismiss our retainer just to look at other windows.

The crafting log is the most common and obvious example, but it could also apply to checking our quest journal to see whether we already have items we need for crafting/gathering leves, or checking the "timers" window to see what items have GC supply missions. I can even envision wanting to check the character window to compare our current gear to some that our retainer is holding. Basically, just allow our entire menu of UI windows to coexist with the retainer's inventory window.

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Originally Posted by Niwashi

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You can have multiple windows open at the same time. I usually greet my retainer, select inventory trade, then open the crafts window (keybind is N), choose the profession I'm crafting for, start withdrawing all necessary items as I make my way down the recipe lists. At no point do I have to dismiss my retainer as I'm shuffling through windows.

I hope that helps? Um... alternatively, you might find it useful to use this extremely awesome website, craftingasaservice.com... You pick which trade and what span of levels you are crafting for and it brings up a mat list of every possible item required for each recipe. It tells you which mats to gather, an estimation of how many you'll need... it also has an "other" category for mats like meats, skins and things that have to be found as opposed to gathered. And lastly, it tells you what to "pre-craft..." things like how many circles of leather or quicksilver... things you'll need to complete the actual list of crafts to get you through your desired level range.

I hope this helps you in your future crafting endeavors... Hopefully I didn't misunderstand the problem with the retainers and extra opened windows, and if I did, then hopefully the website will help so you don't have to use your craft log to find out what other items you need.

Let us be able to dye the Coliseum gear, and let us dye gear in more than one area, so you could dye for example the chainmail of a cobalt haubergeon blue and the pauldrons red.

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Originally Posted by eternalstar01

You can have multiple windows open at the same time. I usually greet my retainer, select inventory trade, then open the crafts window (keybind is N), choose the profession I'm crafting for, start withdrawing all necessary items as I make my way down the recipe lists. At no point do I have to dismiss my retainer as I'm shuffling through windows.

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I guess it's platform specific. On a PS3, summoning a retainer will automatically close any other windows you have open at the time, and the main menu from which to open windows is disabled until the retainer is dismissed. So yes, it's necessary to go through that ridiculously cumbersome summoning and dismissing pattern I described above just to check other windows for what to pick up.

It's not even a limitation of the PS3 hardware itself, which is quite capable of displaying multiple overlapping windows at once. Nor is it a controller issue, as FFXIV already has an established pattern of using the controller's Select button to switch between windows. It's just that they wrote the software to not allow it in this case.

It is true that the screen would be very cluttered if other windows were open (especially the crafting window, which takes up most of the screen just by itself). Just due to the lack of screen real estate, the windows would have to overlap each other. But that's fine. Let them overlap and just bring the selected one in front as we cycle our window selection around. It would certainly be better than the awkward pattern we have to go through now. It's really annoying that we have to put up so much repeatedly summoning and dismissing of our retainer just because some designer didn't like the asthetics of a cluttered looking screen.

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Originally Posted by eternalstar01

you might find it useful to use this extremely awesome website, craftingasaservice.com... You pick which trade and what span of levels you are crafting for and it brings up a mat list of every possible item required for each recipe. It tells you which mats to gather, an estimation of how many you'll need... it also has an "other" category for mats like meats, skins and things that have to be found as opposed to gathered. And lastly, it tells you what to "pre-craft..." things like how many circles of leather or quicksilver... things you'll need to complete the actual list of crafts to get you through your desired level range.

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Wow, that's a really great site. Thanks.

I wish if they change the stats numbers to something the conmon gamers and not some math wiz can understand

Se is it too hard to change 400 accuracy to 12%? Ex.

Also Why Why our FC crests ones we put on our gear nevee show when we enter dungeon or raid

It would be nice to see the quest areas of Your party members in a different color on Your map.

Anyone noticed how u can use drake,mount from amalja quest ans have ur chocobo mount out the same time if it was possible why SE doeznt let us use differents and have our companion chocobo out?

Please address the forced Crystal Tower drops.

Everyone in my party left the instance and i was forced to obtain a Dragoon body piece. I do not want to gear my DRG because i never use it pretty much for anything. This week i wanted to farm CT for either MNK feet or Healer body.. i did not under any circumstance want this DRG body. I saw the stats and they looked nice and i was looking at the gear, in that time boom my entire party left and i got stuck with this body piece.

PLEASE ADDRESS THIS THANK YOU :D

also.. why are you guys are turning this into a wish list post

For the auto translate dictionary: please add Hydra, Chimera, and "adds"; please remove "The" from dungeons' names in the list.
It would be nice to have all towns, not just those with crystals, in the dictionary.

Please find a way to resolve the problem of people getting vote kicked before a dungeon even starts just because they use the auto translate feature/speak a different language.