Duplicate af

What do we do with duplicate af after redoing job quests, can't seem to discard it.

I put it in as a bug report. haven't heard anything back yet.

Anyone heard anything about this yet? Very annoying.

im more curious why we are required to complete jobs we completed in 1.0 new story or no. i understand unlocking some skills but doing the job based isent relly needed other then the achiement.

filler material for the new story? i dont know i just know i would have rather been able to skip it.

so for those of us who completed are jobs in 1.0 and got there af's why pray tail do we need to do it again?

Still waiting for a fix for this. Have to remember to wear the AF when the dupes are offered or else the dupes permanently waste an inventory spot for you until this is fixed.

This is a pain in the rear, it would be nice to get some confirmation on what is going to happen with this

I've only followed up with 2 of my class quest so far so I may be missing something...but if you wear your af while doing the quest you get a 2nd set?

No you don't, but some of us didnt realise we would get a second set if it was stored in the armoire so we have 2

Had this happen to me today when completing WHM and WAR quests. It really shouldn't let you re-attain it in the first place. However there needs to be a way to get rid of it (now I am -10 inventory). Very annoying that this was overlooked and then its been a month with no reply to it.

I definitely hope Square fixes this bug soon:

Duplicate AF Armor that can't be discarded, sold, or anything is awful. Please fix this soon! :(

All these hotfixes included in 2.05 and not a single pep about what to do with this. It should not have been allowed to be re-attained in the first place. Now to go on two months without a fix. This is inventory space that the people affected cannot use because of a oversight. Absolutely horrible, but I suppose not enough people have been affected by this for SE to care.

Kind of reminds me of the whole 3102 error. 5,000 people had to sit out 2 days of the game for no reason. Kind of funny that it took a thread with 30,000 people posting in it before that error was finally addressed (two days after it was first reported).

Please fix this now.

Still no word on a fix for this?

*bump*

Still sitting with 2 sets of full Choral.

I had the good sense to take my other AFs out of the Inn before doing the rest of my jobs.... but this still needs to be fixed to get rid of duplicate gear....please

If we could just store it in the Armoire, it would be one way to address this.

Please fix this as soon as possible.

Square, I don't even want my 1.0 AF, why the hell are you forcing on me a second set? It's a little ridiculous I have to go to my Armoire every time I do the AF portion of job quests just so the game realizes I have the AF. And if I forget, welp, punished with Inventory +1 with no means to get rid of it.

If you're so terrified of mouthbreathers tossing their precious AF by accident, just make some out of the way NPC like the Calamity Salvager that is specifically for discarding AF. It can even have like 5 confirmation screens for the woefully inept, anything to get rid of this terrible armor that I already have a complete set of.

I was Unfortunately unaware that you couldn't toss af gear.. when I completed the brd story line my 1.0 set was in the armoire so now I'm stuck with 2 sets and 5 less inventory space. SE please fix this!!

same issue as event items

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...the-new-events

Yes, this is crap. I just got another set today redoing my DRG from 1.0. When is the next Live Letter or some kind of Producer letter? This should get addressed the next time they do one. Maybe, just maybe we'll get an answer then. *not holding breath*

Just stumbled upon this thread after realising I have 2 sets of PLD AF, one in the armoire, the other which I am forced to carry around with me/stick in retainer and use up slots which could be used for other items that are actually useful. Please SE, please fix this.

Greetings,

Apologies for the delay!

The development team is aware of the large issue where inventory space is being taken up by artifact equipment and other equipment that you are unable to discard, and they are looking into countermeasures that will either allow you to simply discard them or create an NPC to take care of it for patch 2.1.

Why is it that it is so hard for the dev team to implement bug fixes when they are taking the servers down for maintenance 3-4 times a week? It is kind of ridiculous that people have got permanent items in their inventory that they can not get rid of for another month. This seems like something that should have been fixed within the first week of the game. I still have a full set of bathing suits on one of my characters that I can't even wear because I accidentally bought them for the wrong gender, so there are essentially items in my inventory that I can't even do anything with.

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Originally Posted by Req

Why is it that it is so hard for the dev team to implement bug fixes when they are taking the servers down for maintenance 3-4 times a week? It is kind of ridiculous that people have got permanent items in their inventory that they can not get rid of for another month. This seems like something that should have been fixed within the first week of the game. I still have a full set of bathing suits on one of my characters that I can't even wear because I accidentally bought them for the wrong gender, so there are essentially items in my inventory that I can't even do anything with.

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If you re-read Camate's post it makes it clear the patch is not yet ready, meaning they cannot upload it in the current maintenances.

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Originally Posted by KaneBunce

If you re-read Camate's post it makes it clear the patch is not yet ready, meaning they cannot upload it in the current maintenances.

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And there is the issue. It shouldn't take what is now nearly 3 months after launch to change items so that they can be discarded. The whole "we are looking into ways of implementing this" is a huge blanket statement for them basically saying they are behind on every issue. God knows if this was a bug that allowed people to have some sort of unintended advantage they would take the servers down immediately and fix it, but if it is a bug that hinders the player and inconveniences them then it takes forever to get it fixed and the best we can hope for is them fixing it in 2.1.

It basically means that they:

1. Acknowledge a lot of people want to keep them
2. Acknowledge a lot of people want to throw them away
3. Know that there will be a lot of people who discard gear by mistake / regret it and want it back
4. Probably should find a solution that's more than just a simple discard
5. *task goes into the next meeting agenda*

And we all know how there's always that same set of items getting pushed off each week's agenda again and again because something with higher priority keeps popping up.

TL;DR: dunno what to do, do it later.

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Originally Posted by Req

Why is it that it is so hard for the dev team to implement bug fixes when they are taking the servers down for maintenance 3-4 times a week? It is kind of ridiculous that people have got permanent items in their inventory that they can not get rid of for another month. This seems like something that should have been fixed within the first week of the game. I still have a full set of bathing suits on one of my characters that I can't even wear because I accidentally bought them for the wrong gender, so there are essentially items in my inventory that I can't even do anything with.

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i agree with you it looks like they lacking this game is dying because they are not doing good job in fixing things

While I agree that patches usually take several months to be imlpemented, it's a complete different thing with "hot-fixes". They were able to hotfix Titan exploits, Twintania Twisters etc. But things that literally take one day of coding and implementation are pushed back to big content patches, which causes inconveniences for players. Being able to Discard AF armor is a matter of a one day hotfix, including coding, debugging and implementation. It's these little things that make people wonder if SE is actually able to pull stuff like this off when it actually matters. Being able to discard AF armor is no big deal...but it makes it "hard to believe" that when something is actually urgent and should be fixed in a matter of one day, that SE can actually do it. Other MMORPGs have stuff like class balance updates and things in hotfixes. Something like that will never happen in FFXIV. If a class is "broken", they will make you wait til the next big patch, or at least that's how it seems considering their update politics for the game.

PS: Nonetheless I'm glad this is gonna be fixed in 2.1...I wanna get rid of my duplicate AF...

Would a separate NPC just for this really be necessary? The issue started with the Armoire, can't it end there? When trying to store a duplicate item that cannot be otherwise discarded, have one of those "click the confirm box and then click ok so we know you really mean it" windows pop up asking if we'd like to overwrite one with the other. Two sets of AF go into the Armoire - one remains to be taken out later. Just throwing ideas out there; this was my first impression of a quick fix.

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Originally Posted by Anonymoose

Would a separate NPC just for this really be necessary? The issue started with the Armoire, can't it end there? When trying to store a duplicate item that cannot be otherwise discarded, have one of those "click the confirm box and then click ok so we know you really mean it" windows pop up asking if we'd like to overwrite one with the other. Two sets of AF go into the Armoire - one remains to be taken out later. Just throwing ideas out there; this was my first impression of a quick fix.

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Yeah that is what I thought of as well and seemed the easiest way to fix it to me at least. They don't need to be discardable...just make it so one overwrites the other in the Armoire and one "vanishes".

It would be nice just to store every piece of gear in the Armoire then when future classes/jobs become available we already have good gear for them, who knows they might make the gear thats for one or two classes now available for those future classes/jobs by altering the text.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings,

Apologies for the delay!

The development team is aware of the large issue where inventory space is being taken up by artifact equipment and other equipment that you are unable to discard, and they are looking into countermeasures that will either allow you to simply discard them or create an NPC to take care of it for patch 2.1.

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Easy fix: The "You already have one of these items in your Armoire" message should include the option to discard the duplicate, complete with an "Are you sure?" warning or 2. Duplicates get purged in a highly controlled manner, problem solved.

As of right now, the "hotfixes" are fixing eploits, hacks, and game breaking things, not minor inconviences. In the past week or so, the RMT have been hacking this game hard and causing many many issues, that is their main focus and it should be. Would you rather have them allow people to keep having their gil be stolen or fix an inconvience to the inventory system that they already stated is being addressed in 2.1? They are working on each thing, but there are major problems happening that really can just kill the game, that is what they are fixing first, granted these problems should have been fixed in Beta stage, but if you think about it, even on launch we didn't get everything that was suppose to be implemented into the game, so as I keep telling my FC, 2.1 is the official launch and if they can not get their act together by 2.2, this game will THEN start to die. People are only getting bored now because there is nothing to do, FATES are boring, leveling alts boring, gear is becoming too easy to get, and the economy is starting to go down because we are now getting too many people at crafting level 50 in multiple classes.

And one other thing to consider. RMT hacking has found a way to make you spend millions of gil on items without you even knowing, how long before they figure out how to access your retainer and just take your gil that way? The way the game is being attacked, I'm willing to bet very soon, so SE should be trying to jump ahead of this hack that obviously will be coming very soon and prevent it that way.

amazing....

all this time and no fix for this yet? I sure love to have my 5 extra spaces taken up by those silly duplicates of drg af in my armoire and make it vamoosh. lol

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Originally Posted by Req

And there is the issue. It shouldn't take what is now nearly 3 months after launch to change items so that they can be discarded. The whole "we are looking into ways of implementing this" is a huge blanket statement for them basically saying they are behind on every issue. God knows if this was a bug that allowed people to have some sort of unintended advantage they would take the servers down immediately and fix it, but if it is a bug that hinders the player and inconveniences them then it takes forever to get it fixed and the best we can hope for is them fixing it in 2.1.

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Everyone fancies themselves a game developer. ^^;

Yeah.. I put all the pumpkin heads from the Halloween event in the armoire and well.. i picked up another Green Pumpkin head to do the Event Picture contest.

I was going to toss it when i was done. SUX.. WTH no option to discard.

I cant throw it away.. SE come on . it's taking up room in my limited by you inventory space.

I reported this bug. but i love their disclaimer: " SE will not personally reply back " .

Got to love it. Man WTH.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings,

Apologies for the delay!

The development team is aware of the large issue where inventory space is being taken up by artifact equipment and other equipment that you are unable to discard, and they are looking into countermeasures that will either allow you to simply discard them or create an NPC to take care of it for patch 2.1.

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Finally :D thank you!

/bow

Bah >.> I hope they follow through with this.

This was in patch notes:
"Certain items have been made discardable.
In order to prevent the accidental loss of valuable items and gear, certain items have been made undiscardable. However, there have been a number of cases wherein players acquire multiple instances of these items, resulting in insufficient storage space. To address this issue, we have re-evaluated what items can and cannot be discarded."

One can only hope this means the extra af pieces some have acquired also. "X" fingers crossed!

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Originally Posted by valli

This was in patch notes:
"Certain items have been made discardable.
In order to prevent the accidental loss of valuable items and gear, certain items have been made undiscardable. However, there have been a number of cases wherein players acquire multiple instances of these items, resulting in insufficient storage space. To address this issue, we have re-evaluated what items can and cannot be discarded."

One can only hope this means the extra af pieces some have acquired also. "X" fingers crossed!

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We can only hope...

Not a really clever solution, but it's better than nothing. ^^;