Is it time we had another free retainer?

[SamRF]

Don't have storage problems myself but I'd make much more gil with another retainer so I'd appreciate that.

[Moonlite]

Since a few people mention mailing to alts. The original excuse was "blah blah gil sellers". Clearly that has not eliminated gil sellers. They might as well just let us mail stuff. Or in a dream world a shared bank to move stuff around on a data center. Que the "blah blah server limitations" excuse.

[Barraind]

As a maxed Omnicrafter, I've converted every material I own to NQ and dumped everything available from vendors or low value and I'm still just about managing with 3 retainers

I have one for mined stuff, one for herb'd stuff and one for baking / alchemy mats and demi's. And then theres one for materia, scrip materials and some miscellaneous stuff, and one for relic weapons, relic mats, squadron found stuff, and current era timed nodes.

Theres SO MUCH STUFF now. I keep talking myself out of buying a 6th retainer because i can use alt fc chests to store another retainer worth of gardening/housing overflow.

Do you NEED multiple stacks of Iron Ore? Iron Ingots? Iron Rivets? Iront Joint Plates? No you can probably just go down to Ore

you'd be amazed how many different ore/sand log/base cloth mats exist in the world when you add in the glam silks you need multiples of to make anything, scrip bits you need hundreds of at a time, and other mats you cant just manufacture as needed. I keep 0 vendor sold items and only convert from the base items as I need it, and thats still multiple retainers worth of stuff.

I would much much rather have a materials bank (like crystals but for crafting mats)

i would take GW2's material inventory in a heartbeat, even if I had to pay $10 to let me store stacks of 1000 in it.

I'll even pay the $15 i'd need to be able to store 1500-2000 of each material type in it.

I'd also take that marketplace system while we're at it.

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.

14's lack of shared bank slots, or anything that can allow passing stuff back and forth on the account is kind of absurd at this point.

Theres mmo's that turned 21 this year that had that built in multiple generations ago.

Having to juggle at least 1 alt fc and the entire leave/join process to do it is no bueno.

[Halivel]

More than more retainer I would like to have some overhaul for specific types of items. I have 6 retainers, 2 of them are just for housing items (and most of them are from seasonal events). Just having separate chest for furnishings alone can save the day.

Also I do like the way crafting works now (it is quite immersive), but with new expansions incoming there're just too much materials. I, myself, only gather what I need in nearest future (except some time restricted nodes), but I can imagine the absolute mess in retainers' bags and pain of players who craft on daily basis and always need a variety of materials at hand. I don't think there's a need for reducing variety of them, but maybe it's prossible to arrange something like a special store box for them, even if only in Inn room (considering we can't have dresser in housing)?

Also, all the Trial tokens, Raids parts, Materia Clusters... please, please, can we have them as part of "Currency" tab?

[Seraphor]

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.

Indeed. I forked out for 2 additional retainers, but this is the reason I use them solely as additional inventory space, and rare use them for selling or ventures.

[Derio]

I am just hoping they do a simplification of items needed. They already simplified crafting and gathering. Now they just need to go back and cut down on all the different types of cotton in the game.

[Divinemights]

People dump money on Star Bucks but nickel and dime for buying one additional retainer in 2020?

[Edax]

People dump money on Star Bucks but nickel and dime for buying one additional retainer in 2020?

I don't drink Starbucks despite having worked at one previously.

[Halivel]

People dump money on Star Bucks but nickel and dime for buying one additional retainer in 2020?

My city doesn't have Starbucks even, and I already pay for 4 additional retainers. Still would like other people, who can't or doesn't want to spend more money on a sub (since retainers service is linked to it, sort of) for whatever reason, have more space to work with.

2 Retainers were bearable in ARR and HW (and even then I knew people who struggled with space because the overal amount of slots was lower), but now in Shadowbringers, if you keep something outside of battle items (like tokens from raids and trials) - it runs out annoyingly fast. There can be no need for 3rd additional retainer if they expanded them for one more bag, though.

[Awha]

People dump money on Star Bucks but nickel and dime for buying one additional retainer in 2020?

Free is better.

I never expect free anything, but I do understand the draw.