Quote Originally Posted by ArcanoJones View Post
Well I wanted to level up crafting at some point and I don't know what I should keep and what I should get rid of.
I have all of my crafters to 60 (except ALC and I'm too lazy at the moment to take it from 50) and I only have one retainer dedicated to crafting materials. I keep my inventory clear of junk by following a few steps:

1) I ask myself how easy it is to obtain the item. If I can simply buy it off of a vendor for cheap or spend a few minutes gathering more of it (or sending my retainers on a Venture for it) or if I can otherwise easily synth another, I'll get rid of it if I'm not about to make immediate use of it.

2) I ask myself if I need HQ versions of the material. If I'm lugging around materials for items that you can't HQ anyway (such as glamour prisms) or that I can easily HQ with NQ materials, I'll convert the HQ materials down to NQ and stack them.

3) I ask myself if they're part of an item that I want to make. For example, if I know I want to produce cloth prisms some time soon, I'll turn all of my cotton bolls and diremite web into thread and then turn the thread into stacks of cloth instead of having a random smattering of web, bolls, thread, and cloth.

4) I leveled all of my classes 5-10 levels at a time so they could share gear. I only really started doing this after already having three classes to 60 and a bunch of saved up equipment, but doing the last five classes on a rotation like that meant I could start tossing out old sets of equipment every time the last class in line outleveled them.

Also, Crafting As A Service is an amazing site for anyone trying to level DoH/DoL via leves. XIVDB is an excellent way to quickly look up where to find materials and what crafts they're used in.