More storage space is long overdue

[Vickii]

I understand this is probably a really popular request but honestly I feel I have more than enough storage, and not saying that to be contrary.

Saddlebag is full of fishing bait.
One retainer has one tab full of items I may need such as Eden tokens, rathalos tokens etc. Another has a couple of tabs of crafting items and materia.
I use one bag of the four for food, potions and and am 300/400 on the glamour closet. Armoury chest generally is about just over half full.

The problem is while you’re levelling jobs you tend to amass a lot of stuff. But if you regularly keep on top of your inventory (vendor, list, desynth, trade cards, GC turn in etc) then you do have plenty of space. Glamour dresser is about keeping things you are actually going to use rather than a ‘got to have them all’ approach.

What i would personally like is the opportunity to sell more things at a time on MB.

[Vickii]

Dont need more than what got, no matter how much space, would eventually run out of it and that would put people back to the origin of the 'fix' again... sell all the garbage off and keep only what you need.

Agree. The people that struggle with what we have would also struggle with another bag or 100 extra glamour slots I think.

[AncientWillow]

Tbh I'd rather they give us craftable box's or something that just take up one slot but let us store x amount of certain items in them..

Reason being if they increase storage it rlly doesn't change anything, it will last 2 months until people need even more storage..

So maybe we should keep storage the same but give box,crates to crafter to make us.. so we can store 20 items in something that takes 1 slot.

[gilmorej]

The thing that makes me feel like I don't have enough space is crafting mats. Brand new recipes added in the latest expansion can take mats from ARR. So I end up keeping a lot of "old" mats in storage just because they still get used rarely.

The reason WoW could get away with less inventory space and it didn't feel cramped was because recipes always used mats from the expansion they came from (plus you only had 1 crafting job to even worry about).

I don't think the way FF14 does it is bad or wrong (I actually like it because content always stays relevant), but it does lead to feeling like you need more storage so that you don't have to waste time down the road dropping what you're doing to go gather an old mat that you threw out because you didn't think you would ever need it again.

[Vickii]

The thing that makes me feel like I don't have enough space is crafting mats. Brand new recipes added in the latest expansion can take mats from ARR. So I end up keeping a lot of "old" mats in storage just because they still get used rarely.

The reason WoW could get away with less inventory space and it didn't feel cramped was because recipes always used mats from the expansion they came from (plus you only had 1 crafting job to even worry about).

This is quite rare now. It was a big problem in Heavensward but has been improved a lot in the last two expansions. Also the mats that they tend to use such as feathers and old cloths can usually be bought very cheaply or a retainer sent out to get them.

Old things such as flax don’t really tend to ever go up or down in value too much, so you can safely sell now and buy later. Just depends how much you value it v the value of your inventory slots I guess.

[gilmorej]

Old things such as flax don’t really tend to ever go up or down in value too much, so you can safely sell now and buy later. Just depends how much you value it v the value of your inventory slots I guess.

Yeah, and I actually like that. It allows the demand for those items to stay relatively constant, so new players have things to sell to make money with. I started playing just before ShB came out, so I was levelling my character while everyone else was hitting level 80, and I remember making a lot of money mining up spring water from S. Shroud and selling it to high level players who were working on their weaving.

I really commend this game for how well old content survives and stays relevant.

[Payadopa]

We seriously need more. No way around it. Sure, some people will fill it up but it's just too much stuff. The intervals I have to go to my GC etc get shorter and shorter. Bozja alone has gold coins, silver coins and four different memory tokens or whatever they are called. Then there is savage coins, twines, a 2nd weapon for handing in your main relic weapon. It's just clunky. Sure, there is a way around it which usually equates to spending time organising but it could be way better. I don't think people are talking about hoarding Alex tokens here.

[Packetdancer]

Saddlebag is full of fishing bait.

Okay, side note: I WOULD REALLY LOVE A FISHING TACKLE BOX so I didn't have to figure out where the hell I put that one bait I need for that one thing I need to catch. (Or, if I'm being honest, so I didn't just keep re-buying the ocean fishing bait because I realize I left it in my chocobo saddlebag as we're sailing into the first stop.)

Granted, this is a lot less pressing since the introduction of the versatile lure, but still.

Glamour dresser is about keeping things you are actually going to use rather than a ‘got to have them all’ approach.

I think the real issue with glamour dresser is if you have something you wanted to use for a glam at one point, and then don't have an immediate need for. If it took a long time to grind (say, Eurekan elemental armor +2), do I throw it out and go for it again? Or do I leave it in the glamour dresser eating up a spot even if I'm not using it now, since I might want it later?

Because I will admit I've thrown out gear I no longer needed, only to later realize that I came up with a perfect glam to use it for. This always gives me Large Sadness when I have to go, say, run an alliance raid however many times to get the same piece again. (On the plus side, I know Orbonne Monastery very well now...)

Even beyond that, there are non-glamour considerations. Like, take outdated raid weapons. I've got that Edengrace cane, but I don't want it for glam (because it's ugly, in my opinion). On the other hand, it's my BiS for TEA. I want to do TEA someday; should I stuff that weapon into a retainer and hold on to it, or should I trash it and then go run E4S a bunch of times to get it again when I am going to run TEA?

Add to that the fact that they are continually introducing new seasonal glamour, glamour you pay actual money for in the cash shop, etc. At that point, even without hoarding real actual stats-bearing gear, the glamour dresser can start getting a bit pinched for space.

Even worse, we have... what, seventeen combat jobs (18 if you count Blue Mage), not to mention crafters/gatherers, and only fifteen glamour plates, meaning glamour fiends aren't able to make one distinct appearance for every job, much less have more than one.

So inventory management aside, I think you can make a solid argument for the glamour dresser being expanded, or at the very least having more glamour plates added.

What i would personally like is the opportunity to sell more things at a time on MB.

Actually, you can do this part currently. Much like gaining extra inventory space, you can pick up extra retainers to sell things on the market by adding a monthly fee onto the subscription; each retainer has their own market sales limit, so each retainer gives you another set of market slots.

The (inconvenient) alternative to picking up those extra retainers is unfortunately much the same as inventory and glamour management: just be judicious in what you're picking, and dispose of the rest. Namely, only list the things you believe are likely to sell at a profit, while selling everything else to NPC vendors.

[Kuroka]

Also the glamour dresser is filled even faster when you keep at least, head-chest-arms-legs-shoes of some sets. Also it would help if you could ignore jobs when glamouring accessory, at least for stuff like lakshmi or raids where usually all jobs got the same design anyways.

[Vickii]

Yeah, and I actually like that. It allows the demand for those items to stay relatively constant, so new players have things to sell to make money with. I started playing just before ShB came out, so I was levelling my character while everyone else was hitting level 80, and I remember making a lot of money mining up spring water from S. Shroud and selling it to high level players who were working on their weaving.

I really commend this game for how well old content survives and stays relevant.

Mhmm I’ve just started completing the weaver log and I’m stunned at how those same things I was gathering in 2018 like fleece and flax are basically exactly the same worth as they used to be. Very surprising and good for low levels to make Gil