You throw away unidentifiable bones.

[seida]

Yup, I accidentally sold 2 to a vendor as I was getting rid of some trash. LUCKILY I noticed and got them back... but having the exact same icon as bone chips was a horrible decision.

[BreathlessTao]

you can get them and turn them in without the quest

Ok, you might be able to actually get them without the quest. But what do you turn them in for? You can sell them, which is on one hand not the same as turning them in and on the other hand a huge design oversight. These items aren't for anything else, they can only be used in this one quest - they are items that are part of quest progression, as you yourself put it. You can't progress in the quest without these items, that's the quest itself, to have the item and turn them in.

Keep saying (and hearing) this, but they should really turn all the damn tokens into actual currencies. Such a fancy currency window we have now, and such glaring and major issues we've had with item storage, yet they continue to do the same thing over and over, making the same "mistake" time and time again, with flooding our inventories with tokens that shouldn't be there in the first place, and definitely shouldn't be sellable at all............................. it's funny in a sad way, seeing this same phenomenon occurring with such frequency.

[Jacost]

They just announced in the live letter that they will fix the issue that makes it possible to sell them.

[ScarletDawn]

Guild Wars 2 uses an entirely different engine and architecture. Your comparing an airplane and a submarine and saying 'why cant the submarine fly? The plane can.'

That said, FF14's set up seems rather restrictive and behind the times. The problem is its hard, time consuming and costly usually to retrofit what is part of the foundation of a system like this when the system is already built.

A Submarine technically "Flies" under water. They both do the same sort of job, but have different coding, what im getting at is we have A GC chest, why can we not have a player based version for mats? It will act like a retainer with more space and has to be either bought from the cash shop with im fine with or built ingame.

They claim reason we have so many retainer is that it doesnt cost the server anything as its only loaded when the player calls for the retainer, so why can we not simply get more retainer like items...for free?

[CrimsonThunder]

Let them keep the same icons, just give them the green shade or something like rare fish. That would make a world of difference.

[UnstablePersonality]

They just announced in the live letter that they will fix the issue that makes it possible to sell them.

Should make it impossible to trash them too..or change their bloody icons.

[TristanBlane]

I'm sorry for anyone who has accidentally tossed the Unidentifiable item :/ Its absolutely ridiculous that they aren't key items or marked differently, they look EXACTLY like other icons!! I always put them right into my main retainers inventory so I don't accidentally toss them. I can't imagine the frustration of accidentally dumping one after ALL the effort that goes into getting one.

[Felis]

Because if they went into the key items tab, then they wouldn't take up valuable inventory space (8 slots just for this quest), then you wouldn't have a need to buy retainer(s).

And you will not be able to buy them from vendor NPCs before activating the quest and wasting Law tomes and Poetry tomes on something else instead of buying those items in advance.

If I have to choose between them to be key items or buying them outside of the quest to prepare for the next anima the moment the first one passed that step and don't have to waste tomes on something else, I choose the last one.

just give those icons another background color

[BreathlessTao]

Q3: There are a lot of items needed to proceed through the Anima weapon quest, and since they are regular items I feel like I am going to accidentally sell it. Could you make these (Unidentifiable XXX) items key items?

A3: We won’t be making these into key items; however, we would like to address this so they cannot be sold.

There. They just simply won't.

[Felis]

There. They just simply won't.

A3: We won’t be making these into key items; however, we would like to address this so they cannot be sold.

They still fix it