One crafting feature SE needs to borrow from WoW..

[SamSmoot]

Even though WoW only has two storage locations for crafting materials, they're combined in the crafting interface, so you can make stuff no matter where the materials are stored.
This feature was added in 2014 I think.

FFXIV has many different storage locations, and I often spend 30+ minutes before beginning the gathering phase searching my inventory for items and dragging them into my primary storage.
We could really use this here, but I suspect it would be such a coding mess that it would blow the game up if they tried to add it

[zylo1010]

I would love this as I just finished capping gathering and have materials everywhere. Just started working on my crafting and it's a pain searching and digging to find what I need to use.

[Tomoebi]

Inventory management is really poor, everything that has something to do with retainer should get QoL update.

If you craft you need to :
1. right click -> search this item
2. summon your retainer
3. dang, you forget in which slot the items is so you right click -> search the item again.
4. right click at the 2nd ingredients, ohh its on the other retainer.
5. repeat no. 1-3

now the only way i can make it a little bit faster is by opening notepad and write down every ingredients. but i believe i shouldnt do that.
selling things is also a pain in the ass, but its a different story.

[SamSmoot]

Inventory management is really poor, everything that has something to do with retainer should get QoL update.

If you craft you need to :
1. right click -> search this item
2. summon your retainer
3. dang, you forget in which slot the items is so you right click -> search the item again.
4. right click at the 2nd ingredients, ohh its on the other retainer.
5. repeat no. 1-3

Add 3.5. The right click only reveals what block the item is in. If you don't know what icon represents it, you need to mouseover all the logs, lumber, rocks, whatever in the block to find what to drag. You end up having to search for each material THREE times.

[Callinon]

Inventory management in general in this game is hot garbage. I get they're dealing with spaghetti code from 1.0, but we're coming up on 5.1 now... it's time to retire that excuse and fix the stupid problem.

[Sylvain]

Inventory management in general in this game is hot garbage. I get they're dealing with spaghetti code from 1.0, but we're coming up on 5.1 now... it's time to retire that excuse and fix the stupid problem.

I agree but I have the feeling it would take a lot of work.

[Frizze]

I agree but I have the feeling it would take a lot of work.

Nah, re-writing the core coding for the game while its up and running and without breaking any of the hundreds of systems theyve built on top of it sounds like an easy enough task. They could get an intern to knock it out friday afternoon while the devs take a long lunch. /s

[Callinon]

I agree but I have the feeling it would take a lot of work.

That's not a reason not to do it.

[Maeka]

Heck, I would be happy if I could JUST move an item around in my inventory while having a shop window open, other than getting that huge red error "YOU CANNOT PERFORM THAT ACTION RIGHT NOW".

[Ayelet]

Better yet the material storage unit from Guild Wares 2. SE has done this with shards, crystals, etc and it is very effective. Having a material storage unit so that all crafting materials go into a specific inventory slot in the material storage would rock. But, besides the work to tack this onto an already existing system, my wager is a great many dollars are brought in by crafters who have extra retainers added to their subscription.