Suggestions to make life as an Eorzean a bit easier

[Nero]

Hello,

( wall of text incoming )

with 2.16 and 2.2 around the Corner, i would like to point out a couple things which i ran into lately a lot. No, this is neither a rant or a thread full of complaints. Simply a couple suggestions, which would make our lifes in Eorzea a bit easier. Some things are probably allready planned, or would not be hard to implement. Other things may were not considered and also hard to implement. So please feel free to discuss it and bring it to SE's attention. Certain things were probably brought up allready, so i am sorry for posting it again.


1. Inventory

With obtaining more and more Gear and someone having everything to 50, the available "room" for Gear gets smaller and smaller. I am usually 20+ Items for most Slots in Armoury Chest and i only have 1 Set for each of my Classes with me. PvP Gear allready makes it a serious Problem, if you play more than 1 Class. But sometimes you would get a Drop or farming things, or crafting or w/e else, so sorting your Armoury Chest every day can be somewhat annoying.

Here comes the next Problem. I have 4 Tabs filled with Gear in my Retainers, not to mention the Armoire Chest in the Inn. That is Gear i can not store in the Armoire and also do not need. So what should i do with it? Drop it? Well.. some is Event-Gear, some is DL Gear and some are Primal Weapons. I should not be forced to drop one of those 3 groups, not to mention Myth/Allagan Gear which also will be go into Retainer as soon as the Levelcap goes up and new AF/Allagan Sets come along.. not to mention the raise of the Levelcap. This is an serious Issue, so i would suggest some of the following to be implemented in the near future:

I will not mention to increase the actual Inventory, because that will not solve the Problem. Sending Stuff to a second Account "Mule" would also help, but if you have not made use of the "bug" where you could befriend multiple Accounts of yourself, you do not have that option. So SE should really allow us to do that.

2. Claim Slips ( Same as FFXI basically )

- Full Sets of Gear can be traded in to get an Key-Item; Claim Slip for the said Set of Gear. This goes mainly for Stuff like Rare/Ex Sets, but can also go for normal Sets, but then Materia/Color should be erased. This will not only help with the Performance of the Servers, but also with our Inventory/Storage.

Full Set of DRG-Gear; 5 Pieces of Gear ↔ 1 Wyrm's Claim Slip

SE would have to improve the Inventory for Key-Items, but after all it would reduce the needed Space from 5 to 1 Item. The Gear don't have to be stored anywhere, so it is also less Stress for the Server. As long as you have a certain Claim Slip the System knows that it will turn into a certain Set of Gear by trading it. That is why i said Materia and Color should be erased, or the way i think of it would not work.

3. Retainer

Give us the Option to hire more Retainers. Currently i usually sit on 20/20 for selling on both Retainers, not to mention that both Retainers are 170+/175 most of the Time. This is holding me back a lot, since i would have to store all the crafted items... SOMEWHERE. I would be fine with paying an extra fee for more Retainers btw. Does not matter to me if it is Ingame-Currency or the monthly fee for the Game. 0,50 € would be acceptable for me, for each additional Retainer.

Along with the allready announced new Sets for 2.2 and the addtional High-Level Crafts, this is also an serious Issue.

Sidenote:

Since Retainers and Companions are listed but currently disabled on the Lodestone Page, may we can have Informations when this feature will come and what it is about?

4. DL/Myth Gear

I know this was mentioned a couple times, but i would like to bring it up again. There should be a way to sell DL/Myth gear back to the NPC we bought it from. I am not asking to get back the same amount of Tomestones, but currently the only way is either tossing it, or trading it for 200ish GC Seals.

For someone with all Classes, who started gearing out in DL, then Myth, then Allagan this is not only an Inventory Issue, it also feels like a total waste to even by DL or Myth in first Place. Gear will get obsolete at one point, no doubt about that and i agree, but still there should be some sort of reclamation. Like i bought several Myth-Pieces after waiting a couple weeks for Allagan to drop and then they did drop the same Night. Sucks to be me.. but here is how it could/should be:


Hero's Necklace of Fending → bought for 375 Allagan Tomestone

now i do not need it anymore and it is basically Inventory -1

Hero's Necklace of Fending → sold for 280 Allagan Tomestone of Phil
Hero's Necklace of Fending → sold for 100 Allagan Tomestone of Myth

This is a way i can think of and even if i do not get the full amount back, this would be still fine with me and would also help with people just switching Gear back and forth, since getting back the full amount was also mentioned on the Forum. But i think that should not be the case. Lower amount is fine and also a trade into a different Tier of Allagan with a further reduction could be possible. But this is at least "something" over the 200ish GC Seals, which i find rather hilarious compared to what you did for actually getting the Gear in first Place.

On the other Hand, if i could store them like i've decribed it on 1., then i would probably consider getting all of the Sets.

5. Chocobo Barding

So, this is something i learned the hard way; why ffs can i not wear my GC Grid Barding, after switching to a different GC? I do understand it for Weapons and Gear, but Barding does not have an Influence on your Companions Stats, so i do not understand the reasoning behind this. I would have loved to buy all the Bardings for all GC's and then switch them whenever i like, regardless of the GC i am in. Like i've said; i do understand for Weapons and Gear, but Barding does not make sense. The Grid ones does not even show anymore i the Barding Inventory, which is even more odd. I also can use the Grid Hunting Log Minion while under Immortal Flames, which is basically the same thing; just Vanity.

Sidenote:

There should be a warning BEFORE you switch GC's, that you have to wait 30 Days before you can switch again.

6. Tab-Target

This is a quick one:

I dont know if i have missed it, but what happend to the Toggle for PC/NPC/Enemies? It is annoying as hell to switch Keybinds every single time i am switching between DPS and Healer. I can either have Tab-Target for Mobs, or for other Players.. both is apparently not possible anymore, due the Toggle not being there. But yeah, like i've said.. i may have missed it somehow, if it still possible.

Sidenote:

I guess it is about time that we should get some informations about personal Housing, at least the pricing to avoid that sort of "BS" happened when FC Housing were introduced. So people will at least have some time to gather the proper amount of Gil and not get another slap straight to the face.

I guess that's it for now, feel free to add more Points.

[Ravinous]

Actually a better idea is for them to hurry with the personal housing, and do like they did in FFXI. Every piece of furniture in the house to have some storage capabilities. Since they houses are so large to begin with, and like I've been reading people stating that they are adding floors, and basements to houses soon potential for TONS of storage.

[Lumiin]

6. Tab- Target

For the love of God and all that is holy please fix this! I didn't even know it was possible to butcher tab targeting the way they did.

[BobbinT]

Hmmm...

1. Inventory
Dunno man... considering from XI & XIV 1.0, what we have currently already bigger than those 2. Still... we can never get enough of spaces. lol

2. Claim slip
What for? This is not XI where you need several set of gear to max your output. Plus... I actually didn't like these feature in XI.

3. Retainer
no comment.

4. DL/Myth gear
I might actually agree with this. FYI, Myth acc can already be traded for GC seals.

5. Chocobo barding
Although this would be nice to have it all, I actually didn't really care since we have more options of barding than the old GC ones.

6. Tab-target
Dunno for consoles, but for PC version, pressing F1-F8 (F9 if targeting pet for ACN/SMN/SCH) already more than enuff to help me.

Overall... XIV-ARR already made things way to convenient compared with XI or XIV 1.0, I don't really have much complain, besides latency problem. lol

[C-croft]

I understand why they limit barding the way they do. Seems silly to wear the gridania barding if you are affiliated with limsa GC. You could always equip a piece then switch. I didn't realize I would lose access to the GC barding on switch either. But as long as it is equipped, it will stay with your old GC barding. I like the limsa helm but prefer the gridania body. Now I can have the best of both worlds.

Edit: a third retainers is in the works.

[stuscott]

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