Crafting Mats Inventory Tab

[Xzediul]

so we have an inventory tab for crystals but what about the 1000s of crafting materials. every expansion seems to add another 100s more crafting mats, I have 3 retainers all full of crafting mats... I cannot craft out of the retainers bags... so why not create a new inventory tab that could house all of the crafting mats of the game.

thoughts?

[DrWho2010]

gatherers would want that too, and fishers, and glamor hoarders.

[Niwashi]

gatherers would want that too, and fishers, and glamor hoarders.

Gatherers are collecting those same crafting items, and two of the three don't use items in doing so.
For the exception to that, fisher, there's already lots of requests for a tacklebox to carry our bait.

For glamour hoarders, well, we were hoping the glamour dresser would provide that space, serving as a glamour log as well, but then it was implemented with limited slots instead, so we're still waiting on a real glamour log. At least it provides a little additional space. (And if the crafting mats could be moved into their own storage, we'd free up retainer space for more glamour.)

But anyway, crafting materials storage wouldn't make fishers and glamour hoarders *start* clamoring for a tacklebox and glamour log, as we've already been clamoring for both of those all along. We really should be able to get all three. Of the three, we've already gotten a partial feature for glamour (the dresser), so crafting mats should probably be next.

[Niwashi]

I'd be happy even if it were limited to off-character storage only. Of course, being able to craft directly from items in the crafting storage would be better, but just having someplace we could put crafting mats that had a spot for each of them would be a huge benefit. Even if we still had to drop them off there once gathered and pick them up from there before using them (just as we do now with retainers), at least eliminate the hassle of having to shuffle them around from one retainer to another trying to find space for them, and then trying to find them when we want them. Just give us a single clean interface that lists all the mats we have, by category.

[Raldo]

The only reason this works for crystals is because there are so few of them. There's thirty-eight bajillion different crafting materials. At that point, just ask for more inventory. No reason to limit yourself to "crafting mats" only.

[Niwashi]

just ask for more inventory. No reason to limit yourself to "crafting mats" only.

Making it crafting mats only provides two really huge benefits:

1) All the game needs to know is how many we have. All the other information items can have is eliminated. Space for all 2651 crafting mats isn't like space for 2651 items. It's probably closer to space for maybe a hundred to two hundred items or so. Items that would take more than 15 retainers to hold could be condensed down to around the size of just one of them or less. The way it's done now, using up an entire item slot just for a stack of materials, is far too wasteful for a game that's short on space.

2) We could get a clean interface that organizes them by type so that we can find them. No more jumping around from one random retainer to another and another to collect our materials. Every mat would be where it always goes, and where the interface says it will be. So the player experience of it is vastly improved.

Between them (or really with either one of them), they seem like plenty of reason to me.

[DrWho2010]

dont forget there's normal quality and high quality crafting mats too. so that's double

[Shadygrove]

dont forget there's normal quality and high quality crafting mats too. so that's double

In 1.x we had NQ and 3 levels of HQ.

And inventory problems....