Crafter's & Gatherer's Inventory

[Fayble]

Hello all,
I have currently been leveling multiple crafting and gathering jobs and have run into the problem of inventory space for crafting items. Even with the use of retainer slots I can only storage my most essential crafting materials due to a lack of inventory space. Is anyone else having this issue?

[donlep]

i think everyone is

[Lexxie]

I would say the same for the Armory Chest as well. :\

[MithrasInvictus]

i think everyone is

I'll second that.

[Ksenia]

I blame this on the horrible shard grind too.

I have 3 stacks of Mahogany logs, 6 stacks of Mythril Ore. I'd like to turn it in to 1 stack of Mahogany Lumber and 1 stack of Mythril plates but if I do I will be back mashing nodes for shard again and I don't want to do it.

[Darkwerk]

I blame this on the horrible shard grind too.

I have 3 stacks of Mahogany logs, 6 stacks of Mythril Ore. I'd like to turn it in to 1 stack of Mahogany Lumber and 1 stack of Mythril plates but if I do I will be back mashing nodes for shard again and I don't want to do it.

Wait...what? Are you saying that shards should be reusable?

The shard "grind" is honestly no grind at all. It is pretty much where it should be. The subject of the thread is inventory space,which is currently at a premium requiring good management skills,but hardly insurmountable.

[Fayble]

I think that crafters and gatherers should have access to some kind of additional basic materials storage system which does not take up character inventory space. Other MMOs have such systems in place but limit you to one or two crafts. In FFXIV, we can level all crafting jobs so I think such a mats system is needed for basic materials.

[Royal]

Granted I only have 4 crafts at max but I haven't even filled up one retainer yet with mats. Once I get 50 with a craft alot of the materials because alot less useful. I look up each crafting material on xivdb.com and determine if I will ever make the items again at endgame. I'm using 100/175 and might max out one retainer by the time I finish the other 4 crafts. Not everything is useful forever people. Evaluate what you will need and get rid of the rest.

[Amiabelle]

Currently, a player leveling 15-19 classes has the exact same number of inventory spaces as one who is leveling just 1 or 2.

That makes no sense.

One of the selling points of this game is the fact that one can "do it all" on one character. However, when one attempts to "do it all", one finds oneself severely hampered by inventory space, and sucked into a ridiculous and decidedly un-fun inventory-management mini-game. One could spend hours doing outside research (as Royal has suggested) to determine what to keep and what to toss. Or one could throw caution to the wind and toss anything below X level, only to find out it is needed for a level X+20 recipe. Been there, done that.

My suggestion: For every class above level 10, the player should have the option to purchase another 25 inventory slots. Minimum.

[Ksenia]

Wait...what? Are you saying that shards should be reusable?

The shard "grind" is honestly no grind at all. It is pretty much where it should be. The subject of the thread is inventory space,which is currently at a premium requiring good management skills,but hardly insurmountable.

I have no idea how you concluded reusable shards from anything I said. The player habit is to look at the ingredients to gather for certain stacks of material. I'm sure every true crafter would like to have an HQ stack of all parts in stock so they can make any item on request. They know they need 3x99 logs for a stack of lumber. Many will go out and do that with little complaint. Then it occurs tot hem they need 594 shards to make that 3x99 logs in to Lumber and it just sits there until they throw it away.

"No grind at all"

right....