Quote Originally Posted by DPZ2 View Post
Even a crafting bag has limits ... the one in WoW, for example, had exactly 25 more slots than one of my retainers. GW2's bank had a maximum limit to the number of a single item that could be stored, which made gathering a pain. You also had to be in a specific place to actually craft.

It would be nice to draw the mats from such a bag automatically, but if you're expecting 4 retainers-worth of mats to get stored that way ... it won't happen. From what they did with the Glamour Dresser, I guess it would be possible to provide slots and have you do crafting in designated 'crafting areas' in the major cities. That might prevent you from doing crafting anywhere else in the game world though.
If they allow us 8-9 retainers at 175 slots a piece that can hold stacks of 999 to 9999 in each slot, plus our inventory, plus our chocobo bag, plus the glamour storage, plus the armoire, plus our armory, I think they could likely implement quite a healthy crafting bag. Esp if it can only be accessed from certain areas like retainers inventories and glamour dressers, which is a sacrifice I think plenty of crafters would be willing to make. I mean if you absolutely need to craft in the field there is no reason it the items couldn't be kept in your inventory anyway, just as they are now.

But again, it would take away a lot of revenue from from retainers which is why we will never see it. Which is a shame because it would be the #1 qol change they could make that would benefit the most people, outside of implementing a new housing system.