Is it time we had another free retainer?

[SinisterJoints]

How shortsighted. Using the latest account I've logged on the lodestone has nothing to do with my experience regarding inventory/retainer management. Players, such as myself, who truly deal with inventory and retainer limitations use multiple service accounts to circumvent the problem. Beggars can't be choosers. For the record, the THOUSANDS of items you speak of don't stack at 99 as they use to. Thanks for proving my point.

What point? You don't have one, you literally are just in here bragging about what you have in an off alt account. Nobody cares what you craft.

But MY point (which if you read you would see) is that SE can do much better than the current state.
Like a Glamour Log that unlocks the glam when the item is looted. Then you can sell/whatever.
Or adding all the damn books and totems and currencies to tabs
etc
etc

Yea, it USED to be worse. but...... It CAN be MUCH BETTER!

[Skivvy]

What point? You don't have one, you literally are just in here bragging about what you have in an off alt account. Nobody cares what you craft.

But MY point (which if you read you would see) is that SE can do much better than the current state.
Like a Glamour Log that unlocks the glam when the item is looted. Then you can sell/whatever.
Or adding all the damn books and totems and currencies to tabs
etc
etc

Yea, it USED to be worse. but...... It CAN be MUCH BETTER!

Not that you were referencing GW2 specifically, but I'd be thrilled if they would blatantly steal the following from that game:

*Glamour log - glam image/skin is saved instantly - no need to save the physical item if you just want it for glamour.
*Proper currency tab
*Material bank - I believe just about every last crafting item has a home in the separate material storage. Doesn't clog up your actual inventory at all
*Large bank storage (separate from inventory and shared across account)


Those alone would help tremendously with the storage woes.

Some things XIV could do help on its own:

*Cut down the insane item bloat. The amount of crafting/gathering that can be found in game is staggering.
*Add a tackle box. Or if they don't want to go that route (which they should), simplify bait further
*Improve the glamour wardrobe to be more functional. Add more plates, allow plates to be created/made/applied anywhere. It's a bit of a pain to use now, and quite limiting.
*Allow cash-shop outfits to be stored either in armoire or purchasable from Calamity Salvager. Seriously - people are paying a dear premium for these items, and then on top of that lose out on inventory/retainer space as it can't be kept anywhere else. I guess we should just buy that extra retainer, right? (heavy /s)
*Fairly minor, but make all gear items dyeable. Stop making dyeable/undyeable versions of the same thing. Also, do we really need ~100 separate flower hairpieces just because of color variations?
*Utilize the existing currency tab - Why do only a small portion of items go on there? If an item's only use is to be used as currency to obtain an item, it should go here.

I'm sure there are plenty more ideas out there, but that's my starting list for now. I should add, since I highly doubt they will change any of the above, I feel we need at least 1 or 2 additional free retainers.

[SinisterJoints]

Not that you were referencing GW2 specifically, but I'd be thrilled if they would blatantly steal the following from that game:

*Glamour log - glam image/skin is saved instantly - no need to save the physical item if you just want it for glamour.
*Proper currency tab
*Material bank - I believe just about every last crafting item has a home in the separate material storage. Doesn't clog up your actual inventory at all
*Large bank storage (separate from inventory and shared across account)


Those alone would help tremendously with the storage woes.

Some things XIV could do help on its own:

*Cut down the insane item bloat. The amount of crafting/gathering that can be found in game is staggering.
*Add a tackle box. Or if they don't want to go that route (which they should), simplify bait further
*Improve the glamour wardrobe to be more functional. Add more plates, allow plates to be created/made/applied anywhere. It's a bit of a pain to use now, and quite limiting.
*Allow cash-shop outfits to be stored either in armoire or purchasable from Calamity Salvager. Seriously - people are paying a dear premium for these items, and then on top of that lose out on inventory/retainer space as it can't be kept anywhere else. I guess we should just buy that extra retainer, right? (heavy /s)
*Fairly minor, but make all gear items dyeable. Stop making dyeable/undyeable versions of the same thing. Also, do we really need ~100 separate flower hairpieces just because of color variations?
*Utilize the existing currency tab - Why do only a small portion of items go on there? If an items only use is to be used as currency to obtain an item, it should go here.

I'm sure there are plenty more ideas out there, but that's my starting list for now. I should add, since I highly doubt they will change any of the above, I feel we need at least 1 or 2 additional free retainers.

as a crafter i def agree on item bloat but they have gotten a lot better at reusing old materials.

[Esmoire]

That's another thing: I think we can probably condense or get rid of old raid series tokens. Just make the items they get available for poetics, or unify the items by raid series and make them available from a single token for that series or tier. You still have a reason to go back and experience them for mounts, minions, titles, etc. Let's not pretend there's any challenge when 99% of people are just unsyncing them anyway. If the developers are dead set on people having to experience it, maybe lock the items behind at least one clear (like how you can get new hair styles at Gold Saucer after clearing Ivalice). Just please stop littering my inventory with useless tokens whenever I get dropped into Alexander.

[Kuroka]

as a crafter i def agree on item bloat but they have gotten a lot better at reusing old materials.

But for example they could go and remove all the old branches and just replace em with logs, would shave a few items off... and just stop with that stupid X-sand + X-ore... one version per metal is fine, we dont need more...


Edit:
Yes same for tokken, just condense em per tier.

[Deceptus]

That's another thing: I think we can probably condense or get rid of old raid series tokens. Just make the items they get available for poetics, or unify the items by raid series and make them available from a single token for that series or tier. You still have a reason to go back and experience them for mounts, minions, titles, etc. Let's not pretend there's any challenge when 99% of people are just unsyncing them anyway. If the developers are dead set on people having to experience it, maybe lock the items behind at least one clear (like how you can get new hair styles at Gold Saucer after clearing Ivalice). Just please stop littering my inventory with useless tokens whenever I get dropped into Alexander.

Something I proposed a while ago (Like I said, this item bloat thing really irritates me)

Make every raid drop only two tokens. One for gear, and one for the weapon at 7 weeks (4 weeks later after the nerf).

Actually got an SE response, probably because they were already revamping the raid loot. Better than it was, still too many items though.

[Asako]

Do people not realise you can just throw items away? Or am I the only one who does this? I have everything at 80. I craft often but I don't horde any items I don't need. Just sell them on the market board or vendor them. Rebuy or gather stuff you need only when you need them. Do you really need those Yellow Yarzon legs?

The only good suggestion I've seen in this thread is the upgraded material vendor. Perhaps a vendor where you trade him a HQ item and in return he lets you purchase items with the same name, so once you have gathered the things once you no longer need to grind. Cap it at level 70 so newer stuff doesn't lose its value.

However with the amount of GP gatherers have now and how easy it is to access even this is unneeded. Stop hoarding stuff.

[Edax]

Do people not realise you can just throw items away?.

Clearly you're the only one that figured that out. All these people on the thread talking about having to the deal with excessive item management, they just haven't figured that feature out yet. /s

[Rynn21]

I primarily wish that MogStation glamour was able to be stored in the armoire.

[Halivel]

I primarily wish that MogStation glamour was able to be stored in the armoire.

Along with some MSQ glamours (Scion Adventurer and Scion Traveler sets, I look at you).