Crafting *WORKSHOP STORAGE*

[xXRaineXx]

So I'm sure there are many players out there buzzed out by small character storage; having to store mats and gear onto multiple retainers.

As a craft, you would want all the mats you have at the tip of your fingertips; instead of having to sort through a maze through your retainers.

So I have a few ideas to 'fix' this.

1. Have an option to access every item stored within your retainers while you are near a bell. So when you want to craft, instead of having to draw out mats every time; as long as you are near a bell you will have instant access while crafting.
a. Maybe implement it as a option to recall all retainers from selling at mb until you are finished with your crafts.

2. Housing/Private Rooms
a. This one is quite simple. Just make a crafting workshop within your room or house (good for personal housing). Then you can store; say up to 1000 units. Crafting within the workshop will give you instant access while crafting.

[xXRaineXx]

Or anything that can improve the current situation is great.

If you support this idea, please like it and share your suggestions

[TheRogueX]

We definitely need something. Storage rapidly becomes a huge problem when the game allows us to be all crafting/gathering classes and does not just limit us to one or two. We also can't create pack-mule alts, since there is no easy way to transfer items to other characters.

I'd ask SE to allow us to craft some sort of personal storage locker for our personal rooms or personal housing (when it is made available), but I'm afraid it would turn into some ridiculous 3 star crafting recipe that required ultra-rare materials and ended up being sold on the market for over a million gil and thus wouldn't be accessible to everyone. That, or they'd just charge $4/month for it. Server storage costs, and all (even though I played MMOs a decade ago that offered more storage than this game by default and for free, and physical storage costs have only gone down since then).

[xXRaineXx]

To be honest, I personally wouldn't mind a monthly add-on service for something like.

Going by that idea, I just came up with a new idea.

3. Personal Workshop
a. Much like Cid's workshop. You can buy/hire (hence the monthly fee) a instanced workshop where you can store mats in major cities.

Idea 1. isn't really practical, but 2/3 could work really well.

[Felis]

Or anything that can improve the current situation is great.

If you support this idea, please like it and share your suggestions

You could sell everything you can get from a NPC or from the MB for cheap.

[TheRogueX]

You could sell everything you can get from a NPC or from the MB for cheap.

We're not looking for ways to get rid of the stuff, but better storage for it. It will all be necessary in the course of leveling all the crafting skills. Why would we sell it all just to have to go gather it again?

[Gramul]

1. Tackle box.
2. Give us an option to avoid making a HQ item if we don't want it.
3. Find out a way to let us stack HQ items along with NQ items.
4. Let us keep track of what's in our retainers inventories outside of bell locations.

[EdwinLi]

1. Tackle box.
2. Give us an option to avoid making a HQ item if we don't want it.
3. Find out a way to let us stack HQ items along with NQ items.
4. Let us keep track of what's in out retainers inventories outside of bell locations.

Ya GW2 crafting storage is certain a very useful system for crafting. Adding a similar system into FF14 will certainly help keep mats we may need for future use.

[xXRaineXx]

You could sell everything you can get from a NPC or from the MB for cheap.

You missed like.. every point of my OP;;

In my current state, all my crafts are LVL20+ as I am trying to keep my craft levels similar to each other so I can share the gear I make for them. But there is one major issue with this; which is having to carry every material I need so I can craft at any time I want. This keeps my inventory space at 95% capacity at most times.

Then I go to hunt more and new mats, filling up my inventory more and then resulting into storing said mats into retainers... TP'ing back and forth from field to retainers can get quite expensive too.

[Apricoth]

How about this (and I completely agree with the storage problem when it comes to crafting/harvesting) - have an inventory completely dedicated to harvested items/crafting mats. Other mmorpgs have this feature - FFXIV ARR should not be an exception to the rule. The inventory is a part of your character's "bag". If the shards/crystals/clusters have their neat little space, why leave the harvested items/crafting mats out of the loop? Then that leaves having to deal with the retainers out of the picture. However, the retainers should also have this feature since they, too, have a shard/crystal/cluster inventory