Unique gear and equipping retainers

[MistakeNot]

You can make it a little bit easier on yourself by using your saddlebags as a temporary storage location. Doesn't solve the problem, but makes for less back-and-forth with items.

[Illmaeran]

how do you propose they determine if you are getting the gear for yourself.. or a retainer?

typically those types of systems are going to be in place to MAKE it inconvenient to buy gear accidentally that you already have. I am not sure how they could make it to preserve that functionality while allowing gear to be bought for retainers.

I made the suggestion of making tomestone and scrip gear non-Unique, but still Untradeable/Unsellable. I do see your point regarding Unique being a way to help keep people from accidentally double-purchasing things they already have and see that as a good thing. That's not something that came to mind. I'm not sure which option would be the best in the grand scheme of things, but I know which side of the coin I'm on.

You can make it a little bit easier on yourself by using your saddlebags as a temporary storage location. Doesn't solve the problem, but makes for less back-and-forth with items.

To be honest, I never remember saddlebags even exist. Are they accessible in cities or only when my Chocobo's out and about? Does it still count as inventory for the purposes of having a Unique on my person?

[ItMe]

To be honest, I never remember saddlebags even exist. Are they accessible in cities or only when my Chocobo's out and about? Does it still count as inventory for the purposes of having a Unique on my person?

You can access your saddlebag anytime outside of instanced content.
Your chocobo doesn't need to be out.

It does not.
You can have a copy of a unique item in your inventory, in your saddlebag, and in each of your retainers inventories. These spaces each count as separate inventories and you're not restricted to a single copy of a unique item between them.

[Illmaeran]

You can access your saddlebag anytime outside of instanced content.
Your chocobo doesn't need to be out.

It does not.
You can have a copy of a unique item in your inventory, in your saddlebag, and in each of your retainers inventories. These spaces each count as separate inventories and you're not restricted to a single copy of a unique item between them.

Thanks for the tip. Hopefully I'll be able to get this situation resolved this weekend and not have to worry about it for another couple of months.