Unique gear and equipping retainers

[Illmaeran]

Dear Dev Team,

I'd like to request that for purposes of equipping retainers, the Unique keyword be negated. I've got six (6) retainers, and to keep things simple/manageable two each are the DoW classes I play (BRD and DRG) and two are DoH. Now that we're getting close to EW I'm at the point where I'm getting the retainers as well geared as possible. However, the Unique keyword is creating a massive inconvenience/annoyance/obstacle to this. I take pains to make sure both retainers of the same class level in synch to make gearing them up easier; just make or purchase doubles of the same thing and done. HOWEVER:

Every time I want to buy scrip/tomestone gear I have to unequip said pieces and store them on one of the the retainers not of that class or else I can't purchase them since they're in my inventory/armory chest.

In addition, I can't just buy duplicates of each piece at once; I have to buy one, go to the bell, equip the piece to the retainer, then go back and buy the second.

After all that, I have to go back to the retainer holding the gear and reequip it to make sure spirit binding progress continues.

These steps are a needless inconvenience and annoyance.

I understand wanting to have dungeon/raid/trial items be Unique to prevent people from snagging upgrades from others doing that same content when they already have it, but tomestone and scrip gear doesn't need this. Keep it unsellable, but remove the Unique keyword to make it easier to equip our retainers, please.

Thank you,
IQ

[Kes13a]

how do you propose they determine if you are getting the gear for yourself.. or a retainer?

typically those types of systems are going to be in place to MAKE it inconvenient to buy gear accidentally that you already have. I am not sure how they could make it to preserve that functionality while allowing gear to be bought for retainers.

[MistakeNot]

You can make it a little bit easier on yourself by using your saddlebags as a temporary storage location. Doesn't solve the problem, but makes for less back-and-forth with items.

[Illmaeran]

how do you propose they determine if you are getting the gear for yourself.. or a retainer?

typically those types of systems are going to be in place to MAKE it inconvenient to buy gear accidentally that you already have. I am not sure how they could make it to preserve that functionality while allowing gear to be bought for retainers.

I made the suggestion of making tomestone and scrip gear non-Unique, but still Untradeable/Unsellable. I do see your point regarding Unique being a way to help keep people from accidentally double-purchasing things they already have and see that as a good thing. That's not something that came to mind. I'm not sure which option would be the best in the grand scheme of things, but I know which side of the coin I'm on.

You can make it a little bit easier on yourself by using your saddlebags as a temporary storage location. Doesn't solve the problem, but makes for less back-and-forth with items.

To be honest, I never remember saddlebags even exist. Are they accessible in cities or only when my Chocobo's out and about? Does it still count as inventory for the purposes of having a Unique on my person?

[ItMe]

To be honest, I never remember saddlebags even exist. Are they accessible in cities or only when my Chocobo's out and about? Does it still count as inventory for the purposes of having a Unique on my person?

You can access your saddlebag anytime outside of instanced content.
Your chocobo doesn't need to be out.

It does not.
You can have a copy of a unique item in your inventory, in your saddlebag, and in each of your retainers inventories. These spaces each count as separate inventories and you're not restricted to a single copy of a unique item between them.

[Illmaeran]

You can access your saddlebag anytime outside of instanced content.
Your chocobo doesn't need to be out.

It does not.
You can have a copy of a unique item in your inventory, in your saddlebag, and in each of your retainers inventories. These spaces each count as separate inventories and you're not restricted to a single copy of a unique item between them.

Thanks for the tip. Hopefully I'll be able to get this situation resolved this weekend and not have to worry about it for another couple of months.

[MellowMink]

I would like players to be able to hold two of the same ring personally; otherwise, someone has to do Savage content in order to maximize their overall item level.

[Illmaeran]

I would like players to be able to hold two of the same ring personally; otherwise, someone has to do Savage content in order to maximize their overall item level.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but can't we have two of the same rings? Is there a certain level of content (Savage, etc) where this becomes an issue? This isn't something I've paid much attention to.

[Jojoya]

Perhaps I'm missing something, but can't we have two of the same rings? Is there a certain level of content (Savage, etc) where this becomes an issue? This isn't something I've paid much attention to.

Unless crafted, rings are usually unique.

SE did make a change this expansion so prior expansion Augmented rings purchased with Poetics/hunt currency are no longer unique. We're assuming the same will be done with the Augmented Deepshadow/Crystarium/Cryptlurker rings sometime during Endwalker, but it probably will not happen at launch.

[Illmaeran]

SE did make a change this expansion so prior expansion Augmented rings purchased with Poetics/hunt currency are no longer unique.

Ah, that's why I was baffled. I've been buying multiples of Augmented and Scrip rings quite a bit lately and had no issues with crafting multiple rings before that. Shows how much I do dungeon content...