What ever happened to the increase in inventory slots

[Iscah]

Retainers get 175 inventory slots actually (five groups of 35 slots instead of four groups for players), so whatever’s going on, it’s not as simple as “140 slots in each inventory”.

The thing about glamour plates is interesting but could be coincidence, and anyway that count sounds off to me? Logging into the game to check...

EDIT: There are twelve items per glamour plate, not fourteen like your actual gear (as the invisible belt and soulstone don't need glamour slots). So, 120 plate slots, 200 dresser slots and 320 total slots are the numbers they're working with for the glamour plate system, and none of those are divisible by 35, so they seem to have broken that away from the normal inventory system entirely.

Even if it was 14 slots per glamour plate, I'd still say it could easily be a coincidence since it would be based on the pre-existing number of real gear slots, which was in place before the "items per inventory group" was raised from 25 to 35.

(Also, I assume the armoury chest was an earlier method of working around their awkward-coding inventory restrictions? It's a bit better integrated, since the game can identify that you own two copies of a thing when one is in the chest and one in inventory, though you still get segmentation issues like the recommended gear search not looking in your inventory. Each category uses one group of 35 slots.)