How do you organize your glamour collection?

For those with huge gear collection, how many retainers do you feel is enough to cover your favorite sets?
Do you keep raid/dungeon gear checklists of what you still miss and where to find it?
Do you keep similar looking gear/recolors or just one of them?
Do you replace the original primals weapons with crafted glowy versions?
Do you organize gear by it's type (weapons, bodies..) or by a job (healer, tank..)?
Any other starter tips you want to share?

I keep them sorted by the outfit.. Example: the oufit i use for my Ninja is in the first row of my retainer (weapon, upper body, gloves, lower body, shoes, and the last spot is for the head piece, for the outfits that use them. Second row is for my whm, in that same order. Then my summoner, etc. Everything outside of those 6 columns and however many rows, is all the miscellaneous bits like event armor and stuff like that that dont belong in any particular outfit, but i keep them because they are irreplaceable, and they might look good with something eventually.

That being said, my glamour retainer is about to explode, i think i have maybe five empty slots left on her... I refuse to purchase another retainer and double my sub cost, and my first retainer is for all my crafting stuff.. which is also full...

in short.. the outfits are lumped together, everything else is a mess.

There is no organisation... they're thrown in wherever there is space. I have 4 full retainers already.

Not outrageously big into glamour but I enjoy it. Personally, I keep 4 retainers. 1) crafting mats stone, metal, cloth, lumber, and leather. 2) food, ingredients, and reagents. 3) anything misc like glamour prisms, dyes, fishing tackle, tokens, books, etc. and then my last retainer for all gear.

I have one retainer full of special clothes and I tried keeping them organized by outfit, but it became a hassle and I misclicked and sorted one too many times. I have another retainer holding trial weapons and I'm keeping it organized. Rows for trials and columns for the weapon. I have every dagger through Thordan.

Don't dig old wounds OP please. We never talk about rope in the hanged man's house. The game is just terrible in this regard. We wait for 4.0 in hopes that something might happen.

I have 3 retainers, one being for crafting mats and oje being dedicated to my more favored outfits, as well as prisms and materia. The third retainer is for misc outfits I don't use often or that I don't really need as much. I still have 8oakknots stored in her incase they ever become useful again.

The organization issue would be made a billion times better if we didnt have to have the items in our inventory to use them as glamour. I feel like, at least for myself, the bulk of my issues come from taking out a full outfit worth of glamour from my retainer, then glamouring it, then having to put it all back and make sure it all gets put back in its proper organized place...

If they simply allowed us to use items that are in our retainer for glamour, along with our inventory, it'd solve this problem.. >.>

I have 8 retainers, and my stuff is everywhere.

I only collect the good looking parts, mostly the body, head, and feet parts. Pants/trousers were thrown away (only keep skirts, short pants, and subligars). Sadly I can't collect everything.

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Originally Posted by SuperZay

How do you organize your glamour collection?

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I don't. My bags, armory and retainer are all disgusting. I fix space issues by throwing out expensive gear. I'm not a good person.

How many retainers do you feel is enough to cover your favorite sets?
I have a total of 5 retainers right now, of which ~3 are pretty much exclusively for glamour, one is for furniture and the last one is for..well, more furniture, really.
(Furniture is basically housing glamour, how could I not get obsessed with that too..xD)
That's only possible through sorting and throwing stuff out from time to time, otherwise I'd be at 5 exclusively for glamour by now :rolleyes:

Do you keep raid/dungeon gear checklists of what you still miss and where to find it?
I made a checklist which eso gear I still had to buy for the glams before it moved to hunt rewards with 3.4, if that counts..?^^
But in general, no, if I see something I like I have no trouble to remember that I want it/where to get it. Then again, I'm not just starting out but am already sitting on a fairly big collection, so it's usually only 1-3 pieces I'm after at a time.

Do you keep similar looking gear/recolors or just one of them?
That really depends. If it's undyeable and I REALLY like both versions, I will probaby keep both (for example, the lvl 55 BRD body & the re-colored version for lvl 60). But when I have to slim down my collection, those ARE usually the first ones to go.
Something I also do is keeping duplicates of cheap gear with expensive dyes around. Some gear that I use fairly often in either jet black or the perfect white - paying half a million everytime I want to switch would not be very economical, so I just glamour one or the other over it :)

Do you replace the original primals weapons with crafted glowy versions?
No, I don't. I just keep them seperately. Then again, I am very selective which weapons I even want in the glowy version, so that's like..1 for every second or third primal? Anyway, very few.

Do you organize gear by it's type (weapons, bodies..) or by a job (healer, tank..)?
Both.
First it is sorted by type (at least an entire retainer bag per type, for body it's more like..4 bags minimum?).
Then within the bag, it is sorted by requirements - from top to bottom: fits-all, attack mage, healers, BRD, NIN, tanks.
Of course, one could adjust that to the classes they play more often :)

Any other starter tips you want to share?
At first, you might be tempted to only focus on the "big" parts (body, weapon, maybe pants) but the small things can make or break an outfit and you'll be mad at yourself for not keeping nice accessories and gloves around.
If you are running out of space, they are the easiest to replace though, so if you have no choice, throwing them out is not that bad.
Same with primal weapons (not crafted ones), especially the ones you can buy again for tokens.
Like I explained before, if you don't want to waste Gil, keeping 2 versions of the same gear piece you often use in different expensive colors will let you switch color at the cost of a prism, instead of the cost of a new pot of dye.
That's all I can think of right now :eek:

I started out very organized, separating items by slot, then color /job..as of now though, it is a huge mess in my retainers lol.

Really hope they change their minds about a glamour book one day, this is one of the few mmos that don't have something like that (of the ones I enjoy)

I just press "sort" in my inventory and in my one retainer. THo really I only have like maybe 3 or 4 skins I use. And one of those is only monk - the level 60 eso top for monk- so I got tons of space. Course my only job at 60 is MONK. Gimme all the monk buffs MONK FOR LIFE :D

8 retainers. First two blue gear only mostly glamour(old gear), next two are green gear only separated with each retainer carrying different categories (legs arms on one etc) next two are regular background gear mostly glamour again. 7th is green background accessories and weapons (glam). And last is for crafting and misc items. They really really need to look into getting us more space, my apartment is literally just used as a storage warehouse haha.

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Originally Posted by Greedalox

I don't. My bags, armory and retainer are all disgusting. I fix space issues by throwing out expensive gear. I'm not a good person.

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LOL ME TOO

I imagine my character having a trail of loot on the ground behind her, arms full holding stuff in her mouth and handing it to merchants with her tail. Materia IV GET OUT OF HERE! Firework GO AWAY! its all junk to me at this point lol.