Retainers, too much interaction?

[Makeda]

Anytime you will always need to click the same things in order to do the same task again... is a UI opportunity to make it all 1 click.

Not doing so... is called UI-fail.

There are way too many confirms, and 'quit only to be in another window that also needs quiting'...

[Tlamila]

The thing that irks me the most is that during all those million useless clicks the retainer is not selling. If I didn't have to stop selling whenever I call my retainer, the clicks would be less annoying.

[TheForce]

It takes 5 secs with the current system if that is too long you are in too big of a hurry

100% agreed. Personally I like interacting with my retainer, adds to the overall immersion

[SamSmoot]

If they just got rid of all the dialogs (hide if seen already), then it would reduce the number of clicks by half.
Another thing that helps is to move the NPC dialog window on top of the others you need to click, to minimize the amount of mouse movement. It will usually pop up right under your cursor, making it faster to clear than if it was off in some corner of your screen.

Also, someone posted a mockup of a more efficient retainer UI: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...up-pictures%29
You just select the retainer you want to deal with in the upper left, and the contents of the window change to match that one. No need to keep walking through multiple menu levels.

[Garten]

Also, someone posted a mockup of a more efficient retainer UI: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...up-pictures%29
You just select the retainer you want to deal with in the upper left, and the contents of the window change to match that one. No need to keep walking through multiple menu levels.

This is amazing. :O

[lolicon09]

And the issue Is...?

[TaleraRistain]

I definitely think there is some streamlining they can do in the retainer window. The current window is a good step, where you can view all retainers in one UI window. Now they can move to the next step where you can interact with them with less clicks or even en masse.

This sort of QoL isn't unreasonable. Look what they did with materia transmutation. That was a huge improvement.

[worldofneil]

It definitely needs some streamling. If you've got 10 retainers (and I do...) it's an insane amount of clicking just to tell them all just to go back out on the same venture they just did.

Ideally there would a "Collect all" and "Send out all again" or a half decent interface for managing them.

[Bigmoose85]

They need to automate some of the retainers functions like they did with the quick gathering. It would be nice to be able to send my retainers out on more than 1 hour gathering time frames.

[Vahlnir]

I think it could still use a little refinement but overall I don't have much of a problem with the retainer window as it is currently. Real tedium was the old glamour prism system with multiple grades and types based on the level of the item and which profession could repair the item. This retainer window? That's nothing. lol