Lets talk about the Bait Box for fishing

[Frizze]

Unless I am missing something the entire point of this button is to search your inventory to pick a bait right?

Ok, ill stop you right here. You missed the point of the button. The point of that button is to allow for different baits to be used for different things. For that to work, you need to be able to switch baits. So the button is to switch baits. Nothing more.

[Puremallace]

Ok, ill stop you right here. You missed the point of the button. The point of that button is to allow for different baits to be used for different things. For that to work, you need to be able to switch baits. So the button is to switch baits. Nothing more.

So my counter to this is the button seems unfinished. It looks as if the original intent was not to have the player be required to open their inventory then right click select apply to switch bait. The issue here is if this was the intent then why was the bait still included in your inventory.

Clearly they can add separate space for these items and this is not an isolated issue to fishing but to all gathering professions. I prefer to have a little more faith in Square then some of the other posters and pray it is not a game to gouge players for money to add more bag space.

If their intent is to fix professions to be more fun and user friendly then this is a core issue with all gathering professions currently. Even something as simple as what WoW did with a separate bag that holds only crafting items helped a huge amount.

[Iscah]

Unless I am missing something the entire point of this button is to search your inventory to pick a bait right? Why is this not treated as a separate storage system akin to how armor is stored?

Why can I not just store the bait with my retainer then have the bait box search that?

The answer is in your first sentence.

Bait is used from your inventory. It can't reach across to your retainer storage and use bait from there.

The Bait button is essentially an inventory filter with a neat little interface. It's not a separate space, it's not moving your bait "into" the bait box while also still occupying inventory space, it's just finding the baits that are currently in your inventory and displaying them for you to pick.

Clearly they can add separate space for these items

The devs have said before that to create a dedicated space outside of the inventory for fishing tackle would take up inventory slots that could otherwise act as general storage for any kind of item.

They could have given us a tackle box but instead gave us the saddlebag, which is far more useful as far as I'm concerned.

[Shadygrove]

The devs have said before that to create a dedicated space outside of the inventory for fishing tackle would take up inventory slots that could otherwise act as general storage for any kind of item.

They could have given us a tackle box but instead gave us the saddlebag, which is far more useful as far as I'm concerned.

General inventory >>>> specialized inventory. We got more inventory once the PS3 was dealt out. We got another with the saddlebag. But yet this requests persists.

They will not give fishers an inventory that only benefits the truly serious fishers who cannot manage their inventory.

[Zorland]

Bait takes up way too much space in my inventory. I just want a separate tackle box. Plain and simple.

I do appreciate the Bait & Tackle screen box, but just wish it was not taking up space in my normal inventory.

Please just separate the two from each other.