Storage: The Unending War (Or why I don't care about any of that other stuff.)

[InvincibleMoon]

I spend at least half an hour every day fighting a futile battle against the lack of storage in this game. Do I need this? Can I trash that? Should I sell this? It's a struggle to keep my head above water. I can't go do fun things because I have no room for the rewards. Square Enix continues to exacerbate the problem by adding new items on an almost weekly basis.

Hatching Tide is here today. New cosmetics and items that I literally have no room for. The only new storage option added recently is the glamour chest and it's nearing capacity.

Why should I care about new classes or races if I can't store items related to the ones I have now? I honestly would trade in the new races and classes for 100 storage slots.

[Cyreil]

I'm sure they'll come up with another way to pay for yet another retainer.

[LaylaTsarra]

We should be getting new storage for 5.0. Will be interesting to see how they handle it but they did increase armory and inventory space last xpac and gave us a saddlebag. One can hope we'll get another free retainer for Shadowbringers.

[Nora_of_Mira]

yeah, this post has reminded me I need to just completely clear out one of my retainers. Honestly haven't pulled anything out in the past expansion so its clearly not important. I absolutely hate the inventory management in this game. I would've sold nearly all of my old glams for seals if I didn't have to run back the GC from the summoning bell... and even when i did put in the effort, I had way too many seals and nothing worthy of buying...I'm just gonna trash it all.

[Melorie]

I just wish we could actually get a new retainer at least every new expansion. Sigh, wish.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

All event gear can go in the armoire. Big space saver if you haven't been using it.

I also only recommend only keeping rare crafting materials, as it's easy to gather most of them needed for pretty much anything within a few minutes.

As for glamour, unless you keep 1 of every piece of gear, it's not too bad. Just pick the ones you are most likely to use for glamour, junk the rest.


Hoarding can't be fixed with inventory updates.

[Vanitas]

People complaining about every little thing they don't have and this poor soul over here fighting the real battle. My heart goes out to you and your struggle.

[Skivvy]

All event gear can go in the armoire. Big space saver if you haven't been using it.

I also only recommend only keeping rare crafting materials, as it's easy to gather most of them needed for pretty much anything within a few minutes.

As for glamour, unless you keep 1 of every piece of gear, it's not too bad. Just pick the ones you are most likely to use for glamour, junk the rest.

Hoarding can't be fixed with inventory updates.

Obviously to each their own, but what some people would call hoarding, I would consider being efficient. I personally despise having to go farm 4-5 random materials before I can craft something simply because I didn't have space to store the materials I had previously gathered. If I'm on a crafting spree? That may involve many, many items...and I'd much rather have the materials already waiting vs. having to spend a good chunk of time farming before I can get my actual crafting done.

As far as armor collection goes, glamour is huge for a lot of people. There are a lot of very unique pieces scattered about through raids, dungeons, and elsewhere. Outside of storage woes, it makes no sense to drop it only to have to farm it again when you want to use it in a glamour. Depending on what content the gear is actually from, that could be quite the challenge and a waste of time.

It does tend to annoy me a bit when people defend the system by claiming those that have issues with it are just hoarders. That is pushing the blame for a shoddy management system onto the player.

For an example of a game that does it right - GW2 . In that game, all crafting materials fit in their own special material bank. Any armor you find can be saved as a skin and then discarded if you no longer need the actual gear in your inventory.

[Acesfool]

I plan to clear my retainers of anything from ARR unless I want it for glam. Then I'll clear out anything from HW once I get all of my crafters above 60. I figure once everything I play is at level 70 I can easily go back and gather anything I'll need if I ever need any ARR or HW materials.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Obviously to each their own, but what some people would call hoarding, I would consider being efficient. I personally despise having to go farm 4-5 random materials before I can craft something simply because I didn't have space to store the materials I had previously gathered. If I'm on a crafting spree? That may involve many, many items...and I'd much rather have the materials already waiting vs. having to spend a good chunk of time farming before I can get my actual crafting done.

As far as armor collection goes, glamour is huge for a lot of people. There are a lot of very unique pieces scattered about through raids, dungeons, and elsewhere. Outside of storage woes, it makes no sense to drop it only to have to farm it again when you want to use it in a glamour. Depending on what content the gear is actually from, that could be quite the challenge and a waste of time.

It does tend to annoy me a bit when people defend the system by claiming those that have issues with it are just hoarders. That is pushing the blame for a shoddy management system onto the player.

For an example of a game that does it right - GW2 . In that game, all crafting materials fit in their own special material bank. Any armor you find can be saved as a skin and then discarded if you no longer need the actual gear in your inventory.

I guess I'm just used to games that have limited inventories.

It doesn't bother me that much. Keeps me from holding onto things I'll never use. This thread is actually a good reminder to clean out my crafting mat retainer, it's full of stuff that I never use and haven't used in months or years.