I would take one day and dedicate it to sorting all of your items.
What I did to help me (because I'm a pack rat), was I made my 2 retainers, one of them is dedicated to holding ONLY gear, while the other is dedicated to holding ONLY items.
Then I think "What am I leveling right now?"
I am currently leveling armorer and warrior. Therefor, Any gear item that I do not need (such as mage gear) is either:
- Repaired and sold from my gear retainer, orAs for Items:
- Is stored on my gear retainer for a future use, or
- Is NPC'd if it's low level crap that I can just make or buy again later.
- Seasonal gear is usually stored on my gear retainer, unless I'm feeling particularly goof that day. Because you can always go back and get it.
- Because I have 3 jobs at level 50, I also keep the gear that they wear on my personal inventory. But I plan to repair my drg af and store it in my inn thingy.
- any crap item such as moko grass or food ingredients are immediately npc'd. (If I have large stacks of something, I'll usually check the market wards for that item first just to be safe.Hope that helps if even a little.
- Or, if I have plans for the items, I'll store whatever my armorer wont be using on my Item retainer.
- Items that my armorer uses is kept in my personal inventory should my desire to craft arises.
- Or, I'll sell whatever I don't need for armorer or a crafting job I plan to level in the future.
- If a linkshell member is crafting something else, and needs what I don't currently need but have, I'll either give it to them free of charge, or at a discounted price. Because I love my ls mates.
One little thing I would like to mention. We are actually given a lot of inventory space, but as stated before, it's the drop rate of crap items that seems to be a problem. I'm just glad it's not like XI where you had to basically buy expansions on your inventory which I was only able to max out at around 85 slots. (I think it got bigger, but it's been a rather long time since I've played).