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

[Bright-Flower]

I can't speak for anyone else but I made a bunch of space by just going through my retainer inventories and asking 'am I really ever going to actually use this? And if the answer isn't a hard YES, how easily is it to get it back?' For example I'd held onto a bunch of eveling gear i could either craft or buy off the mb if I ever needed it for some reason. ARR and SB artifact sets i can buy off a vendor. Random materials I just got rid of.

[Reimmi]

It would be nice to have a material only tab like WoW has for banks
or another retainer...

[Kurando]

I would prefer the inventory of the current retainers be increased rather than be given more of them to hire and manage. Granted it still wouldn't be enough for some players, but if personal inventory can be increased then don't see why the retainers' can't be seeing as it's limited to access in certain areas anyway.

[Kuroka]

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.

This a 1000 times over... it just sucks. I got like 2 retainers for glamour, one for weapons.

But mats... its not hording its called a stock, its called being prepared. If i got free time to build up a stock of mats, mostly NQ anyways to save space.

IMO we should have a place to stock nq mats, ALL mats.


And for glamour, no, i dont wanna run that outdated 24ppl raid 60x to get that one piece i want again >_>

[InvincibleMoon]

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.

The problem with the Armoire is that it doesn't save those expensive dyes.

Who is hoarding though? I don't have a single piece of gear saved that isn't something I'm keeping for glamour. The storage game is not fun. I can't imagine how people with multiple characters can even function in this game. It's only going to get worse with the glut of new items they will release in the expansion. I can't think of another MMO where players are starved for storage this badly. Well aside from those that sell storage in a cash sh... Oh wait.

[Brill_]

Even without hoarding, they give us a lot of stuff to carry. Shafts, springs, pedals, lenses, gears, bolts and the weapon item. Books for savage raids. 3 different coins from 24 man raids. Eureka you got crystals, protean crystals, lockboxes and the paz drop item x4. Different totem item for each primal. If they don't want to give us more space, they need to condense these drop items down.

It'd be nice if they took a page from ffxi and allowed us to store stuff with npc's. In ffxi you npc's that stored crystals, seals, rems tales, alluvion skirmish upgrade items, gear, etc.

[grinkdaboy]

i dont think they could design a worse system than the one in 14. just give us wow's transmog system. it's perfect and absolutely flawless

[Joven]

I feel your pain OP. I just ran the EX primal farm for ponies and had to juggle gobbling up primal weapons for glamouring and trying to keep inventory space for when the mounts actually dropped. It was a pretty harrowing experience.

[Gemina]

"Aww dammit! I JUST got rid of those T_T"

How many of you have said this when you need to craft something? I'm guessing most of you.

The sum of all the items currently in my inventory is easily worth 100 mil, and that's a lowball figure. How much is an individual inventory slot worth when you have an inventory of such size and value? When you look at things from this perspective it isn't so easy to just dump what's in there. Not to mention that time = money as well. When you craft as much as I do, having to spend hours gathering the mats you need seriously cuts into the time you have available to play in a day. It's not like the crafting itself is a short chore either, and I'm a free bird. No kids or spouse to worry about. I could only imagine the limited amount of time for others who do.

I also try to keep my inventory reasonable, and only hold onto mats I use often. If something sits in there unused for a long time, I tend to get rid of it, and time and time again I find myself having to gather it once more. Many of the items in my inventory are mob drops, crafted into various leathers, threads and cloth that are HIGHY used, and you can't just go and gather mob drops without fighting against RNG. Which is a big reason why I've been asking for a damn Beastmaster gathering class to facilitate this process.

Fact of the matter is that inventory limitations seriously sucks in this game. Any hardcore crafter/gatherer will undoubtedly agree, and I haven't even touched on armory and glamour limitations, which is what everyone eventually struggles with. It gets to a point that you pretty much have to level all jobs within a respective role in order to let go of lower level gear so you don't have to hang on to it, or go through the trouble of getting it again.

I've mentioned many times that grand storage chests should be located at inns, houses, apartments, FCs, and the GC barracks for our weapons. That way all players have access to them. One for inventory. One for armory. One for weapons. Our personal inventories and armories would simply be for our immediate needs. They wouldn't need to increase these immediate inventories and armories anymore, and load times would decrease while they would likely increase when going into inns, houses and so forth. But who cares about that?

We deal anyway we can, but as the OP said, it is a constant battle after you've put in a certain amount of playtime into the game.

[CarnivalNights]

I'm actually not doing the event for armory space, actually.