[Suggestion] imporve access to retainers' inventory

Dear Dev,

It is very inconvenience to summon each of the 4 retainners to check and get materials from each of them in order to craft one item.

Could you conside to add function like:
1. direct get item from any retainers without summonning them one by one. For example, add "get item' on the summoning bell.
or
2. when crafting, beside the box []use HQ materials,
add a box []use retainers material, so the materials will deduct form retainers' inventory directly.

I think there would be many methods could improve current inconvenient,
since we have 4 retainers now, the inconvenient is much serious than before.

Thanks.

Well - Might be a bit hard to implement and the crafting part would then defeat the need of actually being at summoning bell but you can at least now use the new search option to locate / lookup the items in inventory and all retainers which I find nice although at the moment it will not find HQ version of the same item - hopefully this will get fixed soon. Also I've noticed they've finally added the option to retainer to take out only the specific amount of stackable items instead of spliting first or taking out the whole stack.

Would be great if it was possible to view retainer inventory whenever, but only interact with it when at the bell.

I understand by design, you need to summon the retainer, take it offline from the market, and access his inventory.

But it will be more reasonable if the retainers store their item somewhere in a mystery place (the idea was quoted below),
so for example adding a function like [access retainers' inventory] on the summoning bell(without MB access),
can save a lot of time for moving item when no MarketBoard access is involved.

By doing this, we save the time to take each retainer offline from MB, we can transfer item between retainer directly, it also allows the retainer keep selling item on the MB when you are managing your item because they are not offline from the market.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Did your retainer really brave the Binding Coil for that Diagnostics Module? Or was it pilfered from your next door neighbor? To explain the enigma that is retainer ventures, we consulted our lore masters to discover what retainers are really up to.


http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...quote_icon.png Originally Posted by Lore Team
When assigned to a quick exploration, retainers can bring back anything from furnishings to gear. The original explanation for this was a storage facility created by the Adventurers' Guild, which held goods deemed no longer of use. Left to their own devices, retainers would rummage through this warehouse during quick exploration ventures to surprise clients with their alleged findings.

In the end, however, we decided the explanation is better left to the imagination of our players.

We only hope that your retainers don't make a habit of breaking the law.


So when your retainer brings back that Minute Mindflayer, its origin can be a story all your own. Perhaps it was carefully crafted in your retainers' spare time, or maybe they found it abandoned in an alley and seized the opportunity. We hope players will enjoy creating back stories for the items found by their retainers.

As an aside, my retainer doesn't like to bring me anything of worth these days since I accidentally rejected her beautiful gift awhile ago... :(

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Originally Posted by HEC

....use the new search option to locate / lookup the items in inventory and all retainers...

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Could you tell me how to use? i could not find it...

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Originally Posted by Nicobo

Could you tell me how to use? i could not find it...

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For example when you are in the (search) list of the items in Market Board when you right click (or use square button with controller) on the item in the submenu where you can add items on your wishlist is the new option called Locate (or Search for? can't remember now exactly) item. Should be accessible from anywhere where you can right click on the item.

found it, thx^^

Lol got beaten by the op about something like what was suggested. But what i was thinking of if they could implement a search feature on the summoning bell itself. And then the results can show if we have the item and which retainer has it. So that way we can just open that retainers inv for the item that we need instead of search each one.

Arranging my Storage space is annyoing, even with only 2 retainers..

I repeadetly find myself eating up double space because i drop of the loot on one retainer, not noticing the other one already has a stack of it...

I would suggest, getting one single retainer inventory, growing with the number of retainers you got... this would save so much time.

x-mas wish would be, access to all crafting mats in that inventory when in a city/near a bell.

the clicking and searching does no benefit in anything, there could be so much more comfort without hurting anything...

I have two suggestions for the search function to improve retainers. And then one more, just in case.

1. Add the Search feature to any item you right-click on while they are in your inventory. Many times, I'll get more materials than I need and want to put the rest away. I'd love to be able to check if my retainers already have that item without needing to enter the crafting log to do the search.

2. When searching for an item, list both the number of NQ items AND the number of HQ items. Currently, HQ items are ignored when searching and only NQ items are returned.

3. You know, I just realized that I'm not sure what happens if you search for an item that a retainer currently has up for sale. It would be nice if it searched for sale too if it doesn't, as I've nearly bought items from my own retainers that I forgot I had up on the MB <_<