Organization

[Conradus]

What system of organization do you all have gong for you? I realized I spend most of my time switching crafting classes to get HQ ingredients for some things and I also spend timing looking for my stuff (I have a rough 'this retainer has that stuff' but it isn't perfect.)

Do any of you have a better system you use to keep organized? Do you take an hour or so and just turn all those steps into parts for later use? (Like making big batches of leather, etc.)

Retainer 1 has equipment and materia
Retainer 2 has expendables (food, medicines, bait, etc) and dyes
Retainer 3 has fish, other food ingredients and stone crafting materials
Retainer 4 has all the other crafting materials.

I don't stock HQ materials because I need them so rarely. HQ materials I get in the course of play get sold immediately. NQ intermediate materials that I'm not buying from an NPC vendor or the Market Board because of expense I generally craft in bulk with Quick Synthesis so I don't have to keep switching classes and just pull what I need from a retainer. Gathered/dropped items that I feel the need to go out and get myself I will spend 30 minutes to an hour gathering to get a stockpile the same as intermediates. When I do buy something from an NPC vendor, I'll usually buy a whole stack of 99. The object is when I need to craft something I can just pull materials from my retainers.

Note that any time the game shows you an item (as a recipe ingredient, as a requirement for a quest or mission, on the Market Board, whatever) you can right-click and select to search for it and it will immediately tell you if you have it and if so, where it is, including your retainers' inventories

[Xenosan]

Note that any time the game shows you an item (as a recipe ingredient, as a requirement for a quest or mission, on the Market Board, whatever) you can right-click and select to search for it and it will immediately tell you if you have it and if so, where it is, including your retainers' inventories

This is helpful, but just consider the time it takes to right click the search, dismiss your currently opened retainer, summon the other retainer, load their inventory screen, grab item, dismiss retainer, open crafting log, search next material, repeat process until all items are collected... Ugh kill me

It's just not that user friendly.. Who knows.. maybe SE wanted it that way..

[GenJoe]

This is helpful, but just consider the time it takes to right click the search, dismiss your currently opened retainer, summon the other retainer, load their inventory screen, grab item, dismiss retainer, open crafting log, search next material, repeat process until all items are collected... Ugh kill me

It's just not that user friendly.. Who knows.. maybe SE wanted it that way..

It really does feel like SE intentionally made crafting extremely tedious. Just look at the quick synthesis.. It's not quick at all!!!
It still takes 10 minutes to churn out a stack of items with quick synth, and they wonder why more people aren't crafting, then they try to make crafting "easier" by introducing specialists etc.. Unless SE changes the entire crafting UI and its clunkiness it won't draw any people in.

[Morvik358]

Quick Synthesis *shudders* A full stack I can:

Go to the bathroom
Play with my dog
Make something to eat

Get back to my screen and I still have time to casually eat whatever snack I made, and still stare at the screen for a bit of time before everything is done >.<

[Conradus]

This is helpful, but just consider the time it takes to right click the search, dismiss your currently opened retainer, summon the other retainer, load their inventory screen, grab item, dismiss retainer, open crafting log, search next material, repeat process until all items are collected... Ugh kill me

It's just not that user friendly.. Who knows.. maybe SE wanted it that way..

I actually don't do it that often, since I generally know where my stuff is. But if you're not sure if you have something or not, it's handy. I also generally remember what I need and get it all in one shot.

[Conradus]

Quick Synthesis *shudders* A full stack I can:

Go to the bathroom
Play with my dog
Make something to eat

Get back to my screen and I still have time to casually eat whatever snack I made, and still stare at the screen for a bit of time before everything is done >.<

Well, yes. I don't sit and stare at the screen when I quick synth a stack. Usually I do some reading.

[Aeyis]

One retainer with stone/ore/cloth/wood/leather (up to a single stack of each type, only what i cant get from a *beastmen vendor) and the other with animal and alchemy stuff + materia/etc.

It really does feel like SE intentionally made crafting extremely tedious. Just look at the quick synthesis.. It's not quick at all!!!
It still takes 10 minutes to churn out a stack of items with quick synth, and they wonder why more people aren't crafting, then they try to make crafting "easier" by introducing specialists etc.. Unless SE changes the entire crafting UI and its clunkiness it won't draw any people in.

Not having the animation/ui delays in crafting windows (and inventory/storage as well) would make crafting a lot smoother.

[lordoftheapes79]

I have 1 retainer for food stuffs 1 retainer for gear/materia and 1 for all other crafting mats. Keep only what I need for level 50+ crafts, and nq items I use consistently. Sell everything else. I also don't see anyone talking about thSearch function. It not only tells you which retainer has the item but which bag the item is in.

[GenJoe]

Sell everything else.

If you're simply lacking retainer spaces, this will help tremendously.

I think of it this way, if the price of an item is pretty much standardized, (many low lvl mats on my server are in the 150-250 range and do not fluctuate much) then I'm basically paying a 5% fee to keep it "stored" and I can buy it back for about the same price in the future.

[Shadygrove]

3 retainers, 2ed character, but I keep nothing on her retainers.

Problem is I'm a packrat. I still have some obsolete 1.xx crafting materials.

Every now and then I go through the retainers' inventories, sell stuff I can get from vendors and HQ materials. Each time I discover more. I swear they collect the stuff on their own.