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Thread: Retainers

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    Retainers

    The current interaction with Retainers is cumbersome and sluggish. As an additional service that I pay for, it's like the more retainers I pay for the more hassle I have to deal with.

    Please revamp the retainer menu. Have the summoning bell summon all your retainers at once so you can move item in and out of inventories between retainers with ease. It's like a group meeting, so you can assign out ventures as a group instead of a one on one basis.

    One menu to manage them all would be a very nice quality of life feature.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tonjiar View Post
    Have the summoning bell summon all your retainers at once so you can move item in and out of inventories between retainers with ease. It's like a group meeting, so you can assign out ventures as a group instead of a one on one basis.

    One menu to manage them all would be a very nice quality of life feature.
    I imagine you didn't think of the result of your suggestion towards people who play on console.
    You realize you'd then have at most nine open inventory windows at once to clumsily shuffle through, right? And if they're in expanded view, whew, RIP your screen space.
    You ask for just one menu to manage them all, but the menu you're asking for would have like 44 options, and that's not very intuitive.

    As for the part about assigning ventures as a group, do you mean have all retainers undertake the same venture? 'Cause that would never work.
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    Having one menu would not be difficult at all actually. I feel much of the system would be fixed if there were a way to go back to the original retainer roster menu, which lists all your retainers, without having to entirely quit the menu and click the summoning bell again.
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    Is this the same or different person that created the other retainer thread that almost about the same topic?
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    Last edited by Lexia; 07-08-2016 at 01:13 PM.

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    I think the whole point of it being multiple retainers was to not have to load all that data into memory at same time.
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    Sure it takes more time, but it's designed for having two retainers. Also you couldn't possibly send out all retainers on the same errand when they are on a different level and some DoH/DoL and others, so far there's only one option you can send every retainer on.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rakiria View Post
    Sure it takes more time, but it's designed for having two retainers. Also you couldn't possibly send out all retainers on the same errand when they are on a different level and some DoH/DoL and others, so far there's only one option you can send every retainer on.
    Well he could have them all same class/level.
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    I've gotten used to the cumbersomeness of it. I wouldn't mind being able to trade between Retainers, or exiting from a retainer taking you back to the retainer selection window, rather than having to click on the bell again. ((Or an option besides "goodbye" for "select another retainer".

    Don't need everything at once as a single screen if those are options to make things a little more organic.
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    assigning new ventures for 6 retainers is a very boring and unnecessarily long process , hope they fix that soon
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cakekizyy View Post
    Well he could have them all same class/level.
    Nobody would use the same class for all retainers.
    That is not profitable.
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