Is it time we had another free retainer?

[Edax]

Something something give me free stuff for no reason

If it's reasons your looking for, perhaps you should read the OP's post.

[Eric_Riot]

There is a very easy fix to all this, and we do not need new retainers. All we need is a new Vendor we can add to our home (or in the home instance area in general) that holds gathering materials for Gil. This way the "vendor" can hold level 50 gathering items or lower. That alone would free up most of our space. while at the same time not needing to create "a new item" that is a catch up, as well as to not mess up any of the "Gathering" quest, leaves, logs etc.

To those who say that this would mess with the Market boards, just have the default price on the vendor = 1-2k (or what ever you guys think is fair) this way regular "Gathers" could still make money.

[Moonlite]

There is a very easy fix to all this, and we do not need new retainers. All we need is a new Vendor we can add to our home (or in the home instance area in general) that holds gathering materials for Gil. This way the "vendor" can hold level 50 gathering items or lower. That alone would free up most of our space. while at the same time not needing to create "a new item" that is a catch up, as well as to not mess up any of the "Gathering" quest, leaves, logs etc.

To those who say that this would mess with the Market boards, just have the default price on the vendor = 1-2k (or what ever you guys think is fair) this way regular "Gathers" could still make money.

They have created a new leveling system that bypasses the old gathering, so XP isn't an issue. Bots are generally the ones farming thousands of old mats, so this fixes that. It creates a consistent gil sink, which in turn justifies the continued use of old mats.



The only negative to having old mats continuously added to a vendor to decrease inventory bloat is ??? The paid retainers /shocked. They can be used to bot mats legitimately and they reduce the care for in game bloat.

[SamSmoot]

With the current retainer interface, just two is way too much work.
They need a single menu, with instant switching between them at any level. No dialogs, quit from any level, craft from retainer inventory, drag/drop materials between retainers and bags.

[fantasticm]

Would be SUPER nice but it's never going to happen, Square Enix needs to squeeze every penny they can from this game and even casual players can make use of extra (paid) retainers. Gotta move that mogstation money around!

[Solarra]

Agreed. After a session in the Diadem yesterday, I decided I'd like to go Ocean Fishing, 45 minutes later I'd cleared enough space in my bag to make going worthwhile but by then it was getting late and so I logged out instead.
Inventory management isn't rewarding and it's not gameplay. If you craft or gather, it's a time-consuming chore that sucks a lot of fun out of playing.

We desperately need more storage. This game has so many items - tokens from raids, Eureka etc., materia, crafting soulstones (for specialists), toys (fireworks etc), food, potions, repair materials, items for the relics, Allegan pieces in many different values, dyes, choco foods for buffs, greens for choco summoning, scrolls from squadrons etc. etc.
I love the richness and depth of this game and I know all these items add to that, but managing them is not fun.

[Losara]

Sure I would love another free retainer, it might happen with 6.0 but we'll need to wait and see.

For now SE should really open up the entire chocobo saddlebag to all players as it is quite useful for storing different materia's which you know you'll use eventually but don't need at that point in time. To get more players using the app it really needs more features to be added in, being able to send my retainers back out on quick ventures via the app would make it a go-to for me.

[Nioh]

Sure I would love another free retainer, it might happen with 6.0 but we'll need to wait and see.

For now SE should really open up the entire chocobo saddlebag to all players as it is quite useful for storing different materia's which you know you'll use eventually but don't need at that point in time. To get more players using the app it really needs more features to be added in, being able to send my retainers back out on quick ventures via the app would make it a go-to for me.

I want the app but it's not available in my country :< I've tried using Aptoide and download it from there but the version isn't up to date.

[BunniEclair]

I wish they’d at least make things like EX totems and raid tokens into currency like beast tribe stuff!

[hynaku]

Third free retainer would be nice but I like to see them add personal storage to housing where can store mats and equipment not using in.