Crafting From Retainer Inventories

I love this feature in other MMOs-- it'd definitely be a welcome feature from me. It would make the constant struggle to find everything on my retainers (because I don't organize because I'm bad) much easier. :P

Maybe allowing cafting while the retainer's inventory window is up. Of course would only work if the retainer is summoned

My guess is that the way retainer inventories work this would be really difficult to do. Not that it doesn't have merit, just guessing why it would be difficult to implement.

That being said the retainer system is due for a bit of an overhaul as it is. Switching between retainers is far more clunky and convoluted than it needs to be and the menus are also overly clunky and bloated.

A more simple answer would be to let us store materials in a crafting station tied to housing and apartments and when crafting at said station we can pull those mats from the station.

Would also alleviate most of the inventory woes in the game as well.

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Originally Posted by Ferth

A more simple answer would be to let us store materials in a crafting station tied to housing and apartments and when crafting at said station we can pull those mats from the station.

Would also alleviate most of the inventory woes in the game as well.

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+1 for housing storages

It's so useful to be able to craft with the materials in your "bank". Really would love for it to come soon in FFXIV :), it's in WoW already and it does so much for your inventory space!

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Originally Posted by Chiramu

It's so useful to be able to craft with the materials in your "bank". Really would love for it to come soon in FFXIV :), it's in WoW already and it does so much for your inventory space!

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WoW also has a separate bank for crafting items. For as stubborn and overly controlling the WoW devs are, they've made good QoL changes for inventory space recently. Please give glamour wardrobe, Yoshida.

I imagine this wouldn't be too difficult to program. An algorithm, or at least a piece of it, already exists in a way. Item search detects items in your retainer inventory already.

However, item search only searches for one item at a time. Having the crafting log search for multiple items at a time through your retainer inventory might cause server-side issues, and I imagine that's the only reason why this hasn't been implemented yet.

The Retainer Dance is so incredibly clumsy. It's the epitome of menu hell. Click retainer one, whoops I clicked retainer two by accident. Escape, wait for animations, click retainer 1, click item storage, click retrieve quantity, whoops clicked retrieve all from. Send to retainer, no not sell, ugh. Escape, buyback, escape, items, split a few off, return to retainer...

Okay, maybe nobody's that clumsy all in one interaction. But the amount of fidgeting I feel like you have to do to do anything with retainers makes storing and retrieving things a real hassle. It's not game-breaking, but it'd be one of the biggest quality of life changes they've ever made if they let us craft or glamour from retainer storage.