One small task for SE, one giant QOL for the players: remote material use

[TheElvenQueen]

Can you please for the love of god, allow us to use materials for crafting, if we simply have them? No matter where. Retainer 1, 2, 3, saddlebag, who cares.
WE HAVE THE MATERIALS for crafting the thing. Let us use them.

I can't take anymore of this...
search for daily company crafting supply missions...
make a temporary list in the crafting log...
search for crafting methods item A, B, C, D, E...
Search for required materials to craft this thing A1, A2, A3, A4, A5
write it down OR TRY TO MEMORISE IT HELLO??!!
Repeat for items B, C, D, E...

It should be like this: only buy missing items from the market board and
BOOM START CRAFTING. No need to go fetch anything from anyone!
If I have it I god damn HAVE IT!

Or alternatively suffer getting mats individually per recipe:
Check materials needed...
search A1, A2, A3, barely can remember that much, which retainer has what...
close all windows, ding ding ding, hello master SHUT UP click click click the speech bubble away JUST SHOW ME YOUR BAGS ALREADY why do we have to suffer like this...
Take the things, close mouse click spam spam spam the speec bubbles away, esc esc...
great one too many esc or mouse clicks, opened up the menu or clicked something else on the retainer option menu... WHO DESIGNED THIS CRAP!??!?!
And then repeat for each item you trying to craft?!

I'm just a few weeks into the game, and I have to say I'm amazed by those who have done this for years. How? How do you not throw your pc out of the window after that much torture? My hands are literally shaking from rage how I wanna strangle this ultimate motherKUPO dogKUPO excuse of an UI...

Yes, YES, WOW IS A MILLION TIMES BETTER in this regard.
ONE BANK. CLICK: OPEN. ALL there.
And want to craft anything? JUST DO IT BOOM DONE.
No need to get anything. Items in your bank/material tab, all remotely usable.

This is absolute madness and it has to go ASAP.
I feel bad for people "just accepting it" because "it is what it is".
No it's not. It's a program made by people who can change it if they want.
So which one is the reason stopping them? Greed? Laziness? Incompetence? Or malice?

This is simply unacceptable having to go through 500 clicks and key hits to navigate something you can and should be able to do in 5 or less. FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING before anyone gets defensive on me for "addagging their pwessush gaem".

[Theox]

That's why I don't do crafting in this game. I'm not saying it's bad or anything, it just feels like a chore most of the time, very tedious and demanding too much attention and memory for every little thing. Can't be bothered enough tbh

[Ardeth]

I would love just a material locker like Gw2 except without all the pay to win storage expansion crap. That way it pulls the material from their instead of how it's handled now. Granted you can circumvent buying extra items by doing a search on missing mats, but you really shouldn't have to do that. But as a game the storage options are quite lacking anyway so who knows if this will even end up on their radar?

[ReynTime]

That's why I don't do crafting in this game. I'm not saying it's bad or anything, it just feels like a chore most of the time, very tedious and demanding too much attention and memory for every little thing. Can't be bothered enough tbh

Crafting used to be for people who had the patience and time for it. Now literally anyone can be an omnicrafter. Crafter materia up the whazoo through a dozen sources, extremely streamlined crafting "rotations" with nearly no rng even at the end, 1 macro covering 99% of the recipes.
I'm sorry but if that's still a "chore" to you, might as well just turn it into a two clicks mobile game style process.

Then again who cares. It doesn't matter what people want at this point
You're not going to beat the bot rings that pretty much own the market after the first week of a patch.

[Rhea_]

I’ve been a omnicrafter and consider it my main activity since ARR but I’d love a qol like this. It’s fine as is but it would make it easier for sure, especially us hoarders.

[Kes13a]

just a thought, but if you are this frustrated by one of the simpler things, maybe put down crafting for a bit.

organize your retainers better. use your chocobo saddle bags.

from what I understand your retainers dont actually exist on your server until you call them, which would make it difficult to access their inventory. if they were to make them persistent entities in terms of access to inventory, what kind of performance hit will that entail given the code?

QoL improvement, sure, be nice in some ways, but could unleash more issues than what its really worth.

caqnt believe you think WoW crafting is better. maybe for making things from materials you have in YOUR inventory or bank, but it is the most useless pursuit in WoW there is as you dont make anything worthwhile. havent for years. dont make high end gear that anyone would want or buy, since the raiders nixxed that.

[Bukachu]

caqnt believe you think WoW crafting is better. maybe for making things from materials you have in YOUR inventory or bank, but it is the most useless pursuit in WoW there is as you dont make anything worthwhile. havent for years. dont make high end gear that anyone would want or buy, since the raiders nixxed that.

It most certainly has some upsides, like being able to use materials from bank, and some downsides, like not being "that" engaging and rather being just "get materials, press button and there you go", but then again you can do same thing in ffxiv with macro so yeah. not too much of a difference at the end of the day.

crafters do make high end gear tho, highest ilvl even, which was legendaries in latest expac, and highest difficulty ilvl pieces in the previous expac.

[Soge01]

Jesus christ, yes please! This would be the best QoL of them all if finally fixed!

[Raoabolic]

That's why I don't do crafting in this game.

*only turn in GC items*
*only do the weekly crafting turn-ins since you don't need extra material*
*get all 90s*

I'm not saying it's an overnight thing but it is pretty weird having an omnicrafter who hasn't even done half of my crafting/gathering questlines, lol.

[ZedxKayn]

Crafting used to be for people who had the patience and time for it. Now literally anyone can be an omnicrafter. Crafter materia up the whazoo through a dozen sources, extremely streamlined crafting "rotations" with nearly no rng even at the end, 1 macro covering 99% of the recipes.
I'm sorry but if that's still a "chore" to you, might as well just turn it into a two clicks mobile game style process.

Then again who cares. It doesn't matter what people want at this point
You're not going to beat the bot rings that pretty much own the market after the first week of a patch.

Old crafting rotations was what made crafting relatively "unaccessible" in the past and what said crafters enjoyed about it, the tedium of XIV's inventory system wasn't and still is not.