Something needs to be done about inventory space

[MilkieTea]

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I am. It's a case of poor inventory management if you're keeping everything as a "just in case".

Crafting all uses the same gear - level your crafters at the same time and you only need one set. Level them at different stages and you'll only need one set per stage. At most this is 5 sets of gear. This coming from someone who VERY RECENTLY leveled all my crafters to 80.

Gathering uses the same gear as well - this is the same thing.

At lower levels (sub 30 I believe), there are 3 sets of gear one needs - DOW, DOM, and healing. Past level 30 this becomes 7 sets - One for tanks, 4 for melee dps, One for physical ranged DPS, one for magical ranged DPS, and one for healing. This is 9 sets total (including crafting and gathering). You should be rotating your gearsets to your lowest level.

There is no "don't toss it" mentality because the game actively encourages you to toss items - GC turn ins, marketboard, desynthesizing.

You don't need every crafting item. You don't need to keep every gathered item. This is a mentality that YOU created. Not Squeenix.