Please, no more inventory slots...

[GunksFoy]

I just wish we could condense them. I hate that I have to go digging through multiple retainers to find what I wanted. I end up with the same item across multiple inventories without realizing it, wasting space. Could I just have a single retainer inventory that grows as you get more retainers???? Like, a shared retainer inventory. That'd be great.

You know you can search for items right? I agree that retainer inventories could be shared, but there isn't really an issue as is.

EDIT: in case anyone didn't know -

ALIASES:
　/itemsearch, /isearch
USAGE:
　/isearch [item name]

→Conducts a complete search of your inventory for all items you own, including equipped gear, items held or equipped by retainers, and items stored in your Armoury Chest, saddlebag, and armoire. Command cannot be used in a macro.

>>Example:
　/itemsearch "Potion"
　(Searches your inventory for
　items containing the word
　Potion.)

[Mikki]

You know you can search for items right? I agree that retainer inventories could be shared, but there isn't really an issue as is.

Yep, I know you can. But it's still a pain to do so and then you get this mountainous wall of text telling you all the locations for both NQ and HQ and it's just a mess imo. Plus, you have to go to a market board to search OR use the command to search and then search from the search you just did which is weird and pointless.

Edit: When I use /isearch it shows me all items matching what I searched and then I have to right click that and search from there. Just feels convoluted to me. I mean, it's not the biggest deal in the world. Just saying things could be smoother.

[GunksFoy]

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You can also search from the crafting menu, gathering menu, loot menu, really anywhere that lists items. It also tells you exactly where the item you searched is, and how many you have, albeit the text is rather wordy.

I agree generally, but there are solutions to the problem so it really isn't that bad. Could use some work, but there are tons of other QoL and content things I want first.

[Mikki]

You can also search from the crafting menu, gathering menu, loot menu, really anywhere that lists items. It also tells you exactly where the item you searched is, and how many you have, albeit the text is rather wordy.

Still feels like a lot of steps that could be easily avoided by just having one shared retainer space. lol. And yes...very wordy indeed.
But like I said in my edit, it's not a huge deal and I can certainly live with it. Just saying, would be a nice QoL thing. ^^;

Thanks for trying to help though.

[GrizzlyTank]

God damn why cant an item just get dumped in the inventory if the armory is full...

[GunksFoy]

God damn why cant an item just get dumped in the inventory if the armory is full...

It does. To my knowledge at least. I've never seen loot hit the floor or the like, it always ends up in my inventory. Unless you mean when trying to change gear, and then I agree, that is annoying. Although it makes sense to an extent as it was probably part of a set, and sets can only exist in the armory.

[SinisterJoints]

Ill be honest. After reading all the complaints in this thread, I am convinced that people that play this game really will never be satisfied. Someone always finds a way to complain about something.

How about you stop and take a look at your tendencies. You have problems finding items but refuse to organize. You say you run out of room but refuse to stop hoarding. You say you cant find something but refuse to use the search function. Its a huge circle jerk and If I was SE I wouldn't be listening either.

Step 1 -- Stop hoarding
Step 2 -- Organize your retainers however is best for you. If you like all your crap spread across all your retainers then dont come in here complaining when it takes you 10 minutes to find the 1 twinthread that you have been holding since heavensward.
Step 3 -- stop blaming SE and start looking in the mirror.
Step 5 -- Utilize the glamour dresser -- Now that you can reclaim items you put in, there is ABSOLUTELY 0 REASON TO NOT USE IT FOR BLOAT GEAR
Step 6 -- stop hoarding.. again..

[GunksFoy]

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There is still merit to many of these complaints/issues. Just because it isn't broken or it's manageable, doesn't mean it can't be improved. For example, joined retainer inventory, if for no other reason than the convenience of not having to grab my mining mats from one retainer, press escape 25 times(obvious hyperbole), then get my botany mats from my other retainer because there are far too many to store on a single retainer. QoL improvements don't require the system to be broken. People making defenses like yours are the reason SE doesn't take our concerns seriously.

EDIT: It's not hoarding to want to keep crafting/gathering mats. They aren't convenient to get, so it makes sense to keep a ton on hand if you have them. If you have 9 retainers and are having inventory issues, yes, stop hoarding. But most people haven't complained about space, only the inconvenience of having 5+ inventories that are not conveniently linked.

[Vhailor]

I agree wholeheartedly that there are too many different types of storage, but anyone running into significant inventory space issues needs to look in the mirror. FFXIV has hundreds upon hundreds of inventory spaces. It's fine, space-wise (and I say this as an omnicrafter who leveled all DoH / DoL jobs simultaneously). There was a good solid argument to be made before stack size limits were increased to 999 and before the Glamour Dresser was introduced, but the only realistic complaint how is about the number of different inventory 'boxes' and the constraints on the Glamour Dresser in particular.

EDIT: It's not hoarding to want to keep crafting/gathering mats. They aren't convenient to get, so it makes sense to keep a ton on hand if you have them. If you have 9 retainers and are having inventory issues, yes, stop hoarding. But most people haven't complained about space, only the inconvenience of having 5+ inventories that are not conveniently linked.

It's not 'hoarding' per se, but it's definitely a type of behaviour that breaks more or less any MMO (or RPG in general) with a deep crafting system. I respect your point that SE could improve certain components of the inventory interface; without a doubt, that's true (hell, we're still waiting to get our full inventory grid view back...). But keeping all of your crafting materials? Really? I mean, where do you draw the line? There are hundreds upon hundreds of different Gathering materials available, leading to hundreds of precursor crafting materials, leading to thousands of potential crafted items. I haven't seen any in-game system, in any title, that could successfully tackle this many items if you're hanging onto them.

There's also a strong argument to not even try. Inventory restrictions help to keep people focused on what's important, much as having limited space in our houses forces us to not collect too much junk just for the sake of having junk. This has benefits, such as ensuring the market board is steadily populated by spare items. If you could store everything, very few crafting materials would ever go up on the MB; that'd be a negative thing.

That said, as you stated, I agree: most people here aren't complaining about space, so much as the number of disconnected inventory boxes. That is absolutely a valid complaint, and SE needs to keep working at it.

[loreleidiangelo]

I think one of the more irritating about the new tier of crafting is the reuse of old materials. For example, molybedum ingots requiring Cobalt Ore, or Twinthread requiring Effervescent Water, or Steppe Serge requiring Natron. All fairly easy to get, but it consumes a large amount of inventory space to have to keep both level 60-70 mats AND level 20-40 mats. Some of it isn't too bad, like the Tama-hagane Ingots requiring Iron Ore since you can buy it at the Material Supplier in houses, which means I don't need to keep any on hand.

Thiiiiiiiiiiis. I don't need frickin' Draenor materials or Wrath materials to craft Legion stuff in WoW. Consolidate your crafting junk SE so that we can throw out the stuff from ARR/HW, and a huge portion of inventory issues will be solved right there.