Let us craft from Retainer Inventory

[Ranebow]

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I propose that SE give us the ability to craft items with ingredients stored in the Retainer's inventory. To make it a little more realistic, I would require that the Retainer actually be summoned so they can "assist" by "handing the materials over" when I need them.

Not only would this make crafting more efficient and fun by reducing non-value added inventory management annoyances but it would leave more of your character's inventory open for precious loot.

Yes though I'd also like a Guild Wars 2 'collectables' system.
Being able to open inventory and deposit items to an account wide master vault in which each item type is separated into it's own special bank - extremely useful.

At the moment I have more of a challenge logistically managing my inventories than I do running dungeons.

[AttacKat]

Retainers were a mistake back in 1.x, and it is still a mistake now under the current bare bone implementation.

They are:
1. Hard to access, other then limited locations in cities and inaccessible in the field
2. disorganized and unsorted items
3. Inability to determine the total number you have for a given item (ie: 37 in total inv, vs 10 in R1, 20 in R2, and 7 in inv)
4. Ineffective when it comes to gather materials needed for a given "bill of materials"

The old 1.x inventory lack-of-management system needs to go, and a much improved system is way over due.

EDIT:

How do you explain you'll craft something in "Podunk" (in the middle of nowhere), using retainer's mats when that retainer is located in one of the main town? Mats are not sentient to use any kind of ether teleportation flow ..

You can TP from no where to any TP node, so why not your material? Since when a FF game is so limited?

jc

[Razsca]

I love crafting in this game. It has been done extremely well. In fact, its so good I often find my entire inventory is full of crafting materials...as well as my Retainers. I end up having to spend an inordinate amount of time trading back and forth with my Retainer to get the crafting mats I need to keep going.

I propose that SE give us the ability to craft items with ingredients stored in the Retainer's inventory. To make it a little more realistic, I would require that the Retainer actually be summoned so they can "assist" by "handing the materials over" when I need them.

Not only would this make crafting more efficient and fun by reducing non-value added inventory management annoyances but it would leave more of your character's inventory open for precious loot.

Amen

/10char

[Engineer]

Good idea. But maybe only allow this when crafting in your house when housing gets added.

It makes sense, all ingredients are in reaching distance.

[Deathgasm]

You can TP from no where to any TP node, so why not your material? Since when a FF game is so limited?

Since this, certainly:
Aetheryte

People should read.. all was explained in-game very well

[Renytenz]

I expect the auto-sorting to solve most of the issues with finding the items among the pages of the retainer's inventory. I do not mind crafting using the retainer's inventory as well, but if I can at least almost intantly find the item I need from the retainer, and NOT spend much time putting the items in the retainer's inventory in the first place (pages 1-2 will be for fish, ok, now lets put all the fish in their correspoding slots, all done by hand..) then it will all be ok.

[Llan]

/agree

also y cant we craft in our in room, theres no lag and the retainer bell isnt swamped -_-

Very good suggestion.
Wish SE would read this and implement.

Llan Hana.

[ktoulou]

I agree to this feature! welcome in 2013!

[ARRExplorer]

Let me add some arguments why not having a seperate crafting material stash (think Guild Wars 2) is just stupid, a waste of time and actually having that kind of stash is NOT dumbing down anything.
I want to play FF 14 ARR the ROLE PLAYING GAME, I do not want to play FF 14 ARR's 'Inventory management let's-frustrate-the-player' subgame.

The crafting part of the game IS about making 'interesting decisions' about ... well ... CRAFTING ... not about where I have put my crafting materials and not about moving materials around to and from my backpack using retainers that are only available in certain area's nowhere close to the crafting area's. Retainers are there to buy and sell stuff, not to be used as storage space because we simply do not have anything better at the moment.

[ARRExplorer]

You can switch to any Disciple of War\Magic\the Land by switching gear and off you go having fun with that 'role' (remember ... ROLE playing game ...).
But when you want to play a Disciple of the Hand you first have to [a] check what you are going to need for whatever you want to craft, [b] go to your retainer(s), [c] find the materials and transfer them to your backpack, [d] do your crafting, [e] do [a] to [d] again if you decide to do some more crafting with other materials etc. and [f] go back to your retainer(s) and UNLOAD your backpack again. Notice that ONLY at point [d] you are actually crafting, the rest is just a waste of precious time.

About precious time. I work and have a life offline that doesn't involve FF 14 or any computer game. So when I actually play a game like FF 14 I want to have fun. So I do not like it when I have to spend time on boring micro-management that has nothing to do with the core gameplay and doesn't improve my skills etc. at playing my character.