Can having the an HQ ingredient and a normal ingredient not take up 2 spaces?

It would be so much inventory-friendly and less messy for gatherers and crafters if HQ items could just stack over their normal counterpart and all you had to do was hover over the item to see how many HQ of that certain item you got.

I'm currently leveling botany and cooking and I'm just overwhelmed by all these items.

Just like how when you turn in provisioning items, there is only 1 ingredient to turn in, and when you right click the ingredient it lets you choose whether to turn in HQ stuff or normal stuff. It really should be just 1 stack.

Totally support this. Actually, this game has a very nightmare inventory system, they've got to add some achievement rewards or something that opens up more inventory space, as it stands now its aggravating for gathers/crafters to keep track and manage everything between them and there retainers that store stuff. And yes, splitting NQ and HQ takes up more space and its just annoying. Add it to the list of QoL updates that this game desperately needs!

I have slight OCD and organizing all these mats are brutal... especially when you have to organize the HQ ones too. It's been a year yet they still haven't made a way for HQ items to stack onto regular items. My inventory space is dying. I can't keep it below 90. Retainer 1 full. Retainer 2 full. There are so many mats in this game they could at least make it easier to deal with all them.

Another good thing to implement would be allowing both your retainers to have their item inventory open so you can organize stuff better. Really, small QoL changes like these would make people happier and actually want to level a DoL or a DoH.

I'm loving Botany right now, I'm just not loving all this clutter.

Eh? You're keeping too many things then. Even back when we had 80 slots, and only one retainer, also with 80 slots AND items had 3 HQ versions, ie +1/+2/+3, we found ways to not hoarde. I craft anything I want/need myself. I gather anything I need, myself(unless i'm lazy and it's cheap on the boards). Even before I had 4 retainers I had no issue with inventory.

I'm just stating the obvious they did this because of the option of get two extra retainers which you have to pay monthly for as well. Thankfully the price isn't to steep, but it would be nice if they could do something like that. Another game I played, they had a system where you crafting materials each had it's own space separate from the bank or your own inventory. The way it was set up is that you would get gather the item and that item would be put into player's inventory and from inventory you had the option to send all crafting materials in your inventory to your crafting mat's space.

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Exactly what I was going to say - how else is SE gonna get more money out of you if they reduce the needed inventory space?

Why do you need HQ and NQ?

For everything but star mats, I use NQ since I can HQ anyway. For the star mats...I sell off any NQs I accidentally make.

I don't get how two retainers and yourself aren't enough space. Even if you have a gear set for every class/Job there's going to be some overlap between the DDs, especially with accessories. Gathering and crafting classes can often share accessories between them as well. And materials... once you get late in the game all those low level materials are only really useful for making glamour prisms. Everything else has so little demand. So, really, what are you hoarding?

I say all this cause I have one retainer whose only holding unique items so I can have three of them between myself and my retainers (like unopened treasure maps) and the other retainer is just hold those things that I have sentimental attachment to but can't store in the armoire.

I wouldn't mind if we got an entirely new inventory section just for mats to be honest.