Introduce a "mats warehouse" please

[Chiami]

I have had some conversations with fellow crafters, us people who supply a lot of the items you can buy on the MB.

And all agreed that we are increasingly WHEEZING for inventory space to store even just the most commonly used mats, and that it is getting a huge hassle to often pull up 2-3 retainers to get the mats for crafting a single item.

There are just TONS of mats by now in the game, and there was downright dread expressed amongst us regarding 5.0, when undoubtedly the amount of mats in this game will explode once more.

We have an utterly wonderful, complex crafting system, but the extreme limitations of our inventory system turn it increasingly into a huge headache -- the two don't mesh well anymore. It might have been fine in 2.0, but not come 5.0 anymore.

Therefore I think it would be GREAT if something like a "mats warehouse" would be introduced, maybe similar to what GW2 has. An item, or interface via retainers (but by pulling up any random retainer) that allows us to store and retrieve any and all kinds of mats (but not consumables, gear etc.) in a dedicated inventory system just for crafting mats, up to lets say 9999 items (= 10 stacks right now).

I am aware that additional retainers are an source of income for SE, so making such a "mats warehouse" also something we have to pay for is probably unavoidable, but I'd rather pay a reasonable fee for such a feature, than for ever-more extra retainers which increasingly won't keep up with the ever-expanding amount of crafting materials we are dealing with, and on top those retainers are cumbersome as hell to use for crafting.

Bonus would be if we can craft things right through the interface of the "mats warehouse", but I guess that is more or less an unrealistic dream given the way various interfaces work... >.>

[Elamys]

I feel like a lot of the issues could be resolved by improving how the retainer interface itself works. The amount of storage space in and of itself I'm not struggling with (I have everything on 3, could get it down to 2 if I bothered to try) but it does get really annoying constantly clicking over and over and over to get my stuff out.

[TisharuSivaslian]

I do like this idea, but I don't think they would lose out on making money with retainers. I use mine a lot of the time to farm mats despite most of them have a ton of mats and each contain a few different types of mat. But I do agree it is annoying having to click through them. Especially when sending them out for ventures as well as selling on multiple retainers. The implementation of the search function where it shows where the item is has helped immensely, but it would be nice to have a specific inventory that easily accessible for just mats alone.

[Kalise]

I mean, people have mentioned wanting the capacity to be able to utilize materials from within storage to craft with. That way, you wouldn't have to faff around with locating all your guff to craft with, and you'd just craft and it'd take the items directly from your storage.

That said... I kind of wish they'd just increase the number of uses that Retainers have, so that they can actually put in more inventory spaces without losing out on money because of fewer retainer sales...

Like, I mean, especially with so many jobs these days, Armoury Chests, Inventory and Retainers are all rather easy to fill up (Let alone holding on to all the various materials...) especially with such limited Glamour Chest space... But the chances of getting any improvements while there's money to be made from Retainer sales are practically zero...

[Niwashi]

But the chances of getting any improvements while there's money to be made from Retainer sales are practically zero...

That shouldn't matter so long as there's just as much money to be made from a mats warehouse. I hate to suggest even more add-on costs in this game (which has gone rather overboard on them already) but if I'm going to be paying for it either way, I'd like to at least get an easier interface than all this hopping back and forth from one retainer to another and trying to juggle which mats will fit where.

[Windsun33]

EQ2 has those type of mats storage, and it certainly makes things 1000% easier. It has large ones for guilds/companies, smaller (200 capacity??) for houses. Player crafted. As far as losing money from retainer sales, I wonder if any have unsubbed because of the clumsy storage system.

[Lalarrific]

We need a mats chest furniture item, similar to the company chest.

[Windsun33]

Agreed - most MMO's with any serious crafting have that or something similar. Like most MMO's, FFXIV mats have grown faster than the storage space for them.