Is it time we had another free retainer?

[SinisterJoints]

I would be happy with just this, the state of inventory management for crafting mats is absurd.

Totally agree with this, I can do without ANOTHER retainer to manage. I would much much rather have a materials bank (like crystals but for crafting mats)

Though, there are so many items in this game im not sure how this would work

[wizisi2k]

I would like to agree with this but I can very easily see SE doing something for 6.0 that reduces the quantity of mats required for crafting thru various means (simplifing cotton bolls and sands into a generic item for example) to clear up inventory slots. I dunno how it'd work or I would get more specific.

[kaynide]

That's 8 characters who cannot interact unless you decide to make a single-person FC or are in a FC where you have permission to use the FC chest for transferring goods and/or gil between them. Alternatively, you can ask your friends to act as go-betweens every time you want to pass items or gil from one of your characters to another. I'm not sure how anyone could define that as minimal effort. The fact you feel the need to do it is surely admitting that 2 retainers is not enough.

It feels like storage in this game is 'one step forward, one step back':
- Beast tribe currency finally goes into the currency tab - say hello to all those pretty crystals and items from Eureka
- Fishing finally gets universal baits - Ocean fishing gets it's own exclusive baits and needs some of the old ARR baits as well!

I used to play WoW. Alts did not cost extra and like a lot of players, I had one alt who was simply the 'banker', gold and most items could be freely mailed between all characters in the same faction and many items were account bound. Despite the age of the game, dedicated storage for glamour and crafting were added in. Even before we got those, I never had the storage issues there that I have with FFXIV.
This game boasts you can do everything on one character, but the lack of storage makes it extremely difficult. Alts are not the answer, they cost extra and they certainly aren't 'minimal effort'.
If FFXIV were FTP, I'd accept limited storage, workrounds or paying for extra bags and Market Board slots, but a sub should cover you for all that. I think one extra retainer is the least we should have at this stage.

Honestly it boggles my mind too why we don't have some kind of Account-wide vault (A la Guild Wars 2 or WoW). Not being able to transfer..or even mail my alts is, I agree, STUPID. I think the problem with the +1 retainer is that hoarders are just going to fill it up and complain they need another within a year. So, it might not be ideal for most, but I can see why SqE doesn't want to give them away.

Though to be honest, I am not sure why we don't have some form of material vault a la Guild Wars which just holds crafting mats...

[Kuroka]

It would also help if we didnt need cloth, but only yarn or its raw mats, so we dont need 3 steps inbetween but only on mat. When doing parts for our submarine i got crazy from all these steel-whatever parts in x different versions >_>

[Esmoire]

It would also help if we didnt need cloth, but only yarn or its raw mats, so we dont need 3 steps inbetween but only on mat. When doing parts for our submarine i got crazy from all these steel-whatever parts in x different versions >_>

It's such a massive PITA. I can accept like... one step of processing, like ore to ingots. Bolls to thread. Sometimes there's 3, or branching items like ore -> ingot -> plate, ore -> ingot -> rivet, ore -> ingot -> bolt. If it was to promote different trades I could understand, but they are often all from the same damn trade anyway so it's just a waste of our time.

It seems the developer agreed this was a stupid idea, and generally there are less ways materials can be converted in current expansion, but I'd still say they could tighten things up.

[Pepsi_Plunge]

Right now I would be totally happy with an separate, extra-inventory just for ishgard-materials because Diadem-stuff is filling like half of my inventory.

[RyuSaarva]

Right now I would be totally happy with an separate, extra-inventory just for ishgard-materials because Diadem-stuff is filling like half of my inventory.

why are you gathering all the items in there, just focus on one level range items.

[Waliel]

Glancing through this thread makes me somewhat happy that I don't craft or gather. I think I have only one retainer page worth total stashed in there.

[Avidria]

why are you gathering all the items in there, just focus on one level range items.

You don't need to gather everything to fill your inventory in there. I totally filled mine in one trip because I was mining, picking flowers, and killing something every time I got a big gun bar. Usually the same something because I was gathering mats to level my crafters 60-80 the times this happened - because it was more than once. I've had to leave early at least twice purely because my bag got full

I spent like two hours cleaning and reorganizing my THREE retainers just to be able to actually spend the three hours in Diadem without worrying about my bag being completely full.

[Big_Bap]

I like how nobody has brought up the fact that SE has increased the stack limit to 999 while it was previously at 99. It used to be way worse. You want a free retainer? Use your chocobo saddlebag.