Consolidation of crafting materials.

With the new expansion coming i think its about time square deletes at least half of the crafting materials in this game and consolidate old crafting recipes because at this point unless you have 6 retainers its impossible to hold every material in the game, this is just annoying and just plain pointless because who cares about some easy to get material from ARR for a recipe you can HQ in 2 seconds, just get rid of the pointless amount of old materials and consolidate the recipe system for old content please. :mad:

I support this as well as embracing the new content.

I shouldn't be going into 8 year old ARR content to gather materials to craft lvl 80 items.

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Originally Posted by Deceptus

I shouldn't be going into 8 year old ARR content to gather materials to craft lvl 80 items.

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You could always buy the materials in question from the market board, then.

Personally I love it when newer recipes use older materials as it helps keep them relevant.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

You could always buy the materials in question from the market board, then.

Personally I love it when newer recipes use older materials as it helps keep them relevant.

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I am not saying they shouldn't be relevant all I am saying is that they should reduce the pool, don't even get me started on how having NQ and HQ basically doubles the amount.

I'm not a fan of this idea at all.

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Originally Posted by Ragnhar

I am not saying they shouldn't be relevant all I am saying is that they should reduce the pool, don't even get me started on how having NQ and HQ basically doubles the amount.

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What I want to know is why you'd find i necessary to keep both NQ/HQ, instead of just reducing your bag space by reducing all older HQ items into NQ items.

Honestly I wouldn't mind the amount of crafting materials we need to gather if we had a separate inventory dedicated to those materials. But I know they'd never do that because how else would they sell you the extra retainers?

At the very least give dyes their own inventory... literally more than half of my saddlebag is dyes OTL

Not old mats but some of the new mats current mats I do, not many but it is still around 10 or so spaces that are just wasted, between glamour, materials and furniture there is no way i can have more than 10 spaces free on my retainers, this games has serious issues with inventory space, if there was a bag specifically for materials like in ESO or GW2 i wouldn't have to go to the forums to complain about excess of materials that consume almost 3 retainers for me, i can't afford to hire 6 retainers.

I can still easily manage to hold everything I require on the basic 2 retainers. My saddlebag is basically a materia bag. I have an apartment and it's just... full of furniture to not clutter retainers or my existing storage in house.

Edit: Moved most gear over to the glamour dresser. I'm not going to hoard things I know I'll never use.

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Originally Posted by Ragnhar

Not old mats but some of the new mats current mats I do, not many but it is still around 10 or so spaces that are just wasted, between glamour, materials and furniture there is no way i can have more than 10 spaces free on my retainers, this games has serious issues with inventory space, if there was a bag specifically for materials like in ESO or GW2 i wouldn't have to go to the forums to complain about excess of materials that consume almost 3 retainers for me, i can't afford to hire 6 retainers.

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Idk about you, but I've sat on the default 2 retainers, and craft avidly enough, I just make sure to try and spot trends in how they approach recipes, especially from the leveling, and master recipe perspective, then I hold those in retainers for the duration of the expansion, then cycle out each expansion, and just keep my inventory clear for actual endgame items, and for anything that's potentially an outlier. Like I'm not going to keep a stash of, say, Yew Lumber, Cedar Lumber, Hallowed Lumber, Ramie Cloth, Mythrite Ingot, and other such materials, because they aren't going to be used in an abundant amount of recipes, so I just have my storage reserved for what is used in an abundant amount of recipes, and what I feel is likely to be used in an abundant amount of recipes going forward, in addition to extra space to compensate for being wrong. It's timely, but it keeps me on my toes so I can't complain, and trends are very easy to spot if you're willing to look

From what i see, for starter, I think Dyes should have a separate inventory management, It wont be a very big data management issue for the developer and it would encourage player to stockpile dyes, since glamour is end game content afterall XD

Back to the main topic, I know that asking for separate inventory for material asking too much, cant the luxury trader sell more than just very expensive mount? make it that they sell extra 16 slot inventory(one time use) for player or retainer for 10 million gils, I will buy it =D, I dont have that much gil yet but it will motivate me to farm gil XD