I never have anymore space

[Sadana]

I'm leveling all DoH classes at once and gather all my mats; inventory has always been a toughie. One thing I do to help is assign item types to each retainer. In my case, weapons/gear are on retainer 1, ltw/wvr on 2, alc/cul on 3 (some overflow onto other retainers), and arm/bsm on 4. Random stuff like atma, materia, fish, and dye go onto different retainers depending on how much space each has. I do try to clean things out once in a while and sell off what I can.

[CrystalRainbow]

Put 20 + 20 on Boards. for 10-50% less then everyone else is selling. 1st and last thing you do everyday.
-Perk, if it's something you think you may use. Use gil you got from sale to buy it when you are going to use it.
Don't hang onto any items that on the boards go for less then XX(I do 20 gil), Just NPC them for more space.

I hit near cap about once every 2 weeks. I do delivery company quests everyday on all my crafting jobs that aren't level 50.

When I do hit cap I do what I said above for 2-3 days and free up about 100+ spaces.


Once you get better gear get rid of old non storable gear.
You have full myth set no need for any darklight/CT gear.

[Niwashi]

Honestly, a serious crafter should know most of that already,

Not really, as the answers are constantly changing. What you need at one point in the game isn't what you need at another point in the game. After a productive gaming session, you're likely to have advanced at least one class or another in either level or gear, so what that class needs will be different than it was the day before.

or know where to find that info very quickly.

There is no place to find it quickly. There are places to look up each step of the process, but then you still have to put all the pieces together yourself, and that's the time-consuming part I was talking about. So you can look up ingredient A to find it's used in making ingredients B, C, and D as well as final items X, Y and Z, but then you need to look up what ingredients B, C, and D are used for, etc., until you finally put together a long list of final items that ingredient A goes into. At that point, you need to start considering whether you'll want any of those final items, so need to go to a different site to look up leves and GC supply missions, as well as checking in-game for which items you have or want for yourself. That's a lot of work just for determining "should I keep ingredient A or not?"

(Actually, there's a pretty good site for going the other way around. When you want to make something, you can in a single step find all the root elements as well as intermediates you'll need to make it. It doesn't, however, go the other way around, and tell you what all items a given ingredient is needed for. And even if it did, there would still be a separate step to check whether you'll want any of those items.)

[PArcher]

SNIP

Really, there's only one crafter that has confusing, unnecessarily wasteful recipes: CUL.

All others generally use the same materials for each "tier" of gear (and ARM/BSM share them, making it even simpler)

I keep Iron Ore, Bomb Ash, Brass Ingots, Silver Ingots, Mythril Ingots, Electrum Ingots, Colbalt Ore, each type of thread (except Hempen), each type of Lumber, each type of Leather (except Leather and Hard Leather), HQ Undyed Felt, HQ Twinthread, HQ Rose Gold Nuggets, HQ Darksteel Nuggets, HQ Spruce Lumber, HQ Hyppogriff Leather, HQ Shark Oil, Thavnarian Misteltoe and a few (yes few) other ingredients I use and can't remember right now. That's also not counting the stuff I use for my food, since I generally don't keep those mats around, making the food when I get that stuff.

That list makes the vast majority of things, and can be made into other mats. The extra stuff you need isn't needed much, and can be gathered quickly or bought cheaply.

[BobbinT]

I second that.

Once you get deep into DoH, you will realize yourself which mats are really important to keep. Combined with market supply and demand, you also will know which mats you don't need to keep. Very good example of this are hippogrif skins. The NQ are ridiculously abundant, so you can get rid of those.

Right now, I don't see myself needing extra retainer for keeping my stuff. atm, 1 retainer are in charge of holding all mats while I throw stuff like unused wep/gears and materia along with events stuff on other retainers.

Another tip is to not keep mats used for crafting below level 15 since those can be bought from npcs. Even you can easily HQ those if you have high enough DoH level.

I agree that from all DoHs, CULs mats are too many and taking alot of spaces. Right now I'm working to complete making all recipes so I can dump most of them to market/npc.

Another thing to consider is to npc/market stuff that you have less interest to craft on that particular DoH. When you do need it later, it's usually long time ahead and gathering stuff aren't as hard as you think.

[mero-ix]

My point was about not wanting to have to do all that research every time I play.

1) Attempt to place the item in your retainer for sale on the AH.
2) Check sale history.
3) Is it worth anything?
4) No? Sell it.

[Hybris-Maenad]

I'm pretty sure it's intentional. If you're here for the long run you are just going to have to give in and pay for another retainer.

I did snag one so I don't have to pick and prune every 20 minutes, but at the cost of changing my subscription from standard to basic.

Funny how this actually reduces the money they make off of me...