Tacklebox Please

[Kathryn]

At that point, you might as well just get rid of the concept of retainer and saddlebag inventories, and set the size of your own inventory to 140 + 70 (* 2?) + 175*N slots.

For example: If you've sent your retainer out on a venture, you shouldn't be able access their inventory. They're not with you! They're somewhere else! Unless, of course, they left their bag of holding with you while they're away… in which case, we're basically back to what I just said — make your own inventory larger, and delete the others.

I'm fine with getting rid of retainers in that regard and im sure many others would be aswell if they could have a much bigger personal inventory which they can sort with more ease.

To be against bigger inventory or dedicated crafting/bait inventories is nonsensical.

[HappyHubris]

I would love if Square added a tacklebox to the game. I am tired of having my inventory clogged with bait. Do you think we could ever get something like this to hold our bait?

Yes but retainer subscriptions are $$$$.

[Neoyoshi]

We'll never get one, they already created a compromise which is the 'all-in-one' baits they have steadily added over the years that eliminates the need for specific baits for fish from ARR to Stormblood.

They are more likely to straight up simplify baits before they ever give us a tacklebox, so it's best we stop asking, because it's only going to encourage the dev team to eventually remove all of those baits from the game- eliminating the spirit of the fishing job.

[kaynide]

Real question is, why are you buying bait you aren’t immediately using? I get over-gathering crafting stuff and storing some amount of it…but bait?

99% you literally just buy some amount that you should be using in that zone right then and there.

I dunno, buy less bait?

[Sjol]

Real question is, why are you buying bait you aren’t immediately using? I get over-gathering crafting stuff and storing some amount of it…but bait?

99% you literally just buy some amount that you should be using in that zone right then and there.

I dunno, buy less bait?

If you're only fishing in one zone. If you're timer fishing (i.e., moving from zone to zone trying to catch fish based off their limited availability) then you're going to have a LOT of different baits and if you only have a few minutes to catch the fish you're not going to want to waste half of it flying to the local merchant to get it each time as it greatly reduces the number of potential casts you get and RNG is not in your favor.

[kaynide]

If you're only fishing in one zone. If you're timer fishing (i.e., moving from zone to zone trying to catch fish based off their limited availability) then you're going to have a LOT of different baits and if you only have a few minutes to catch the fish you're not going to want to waste half of it flying to the local merchant to get it each time as it greatly reduces the number of potential casts you get and RNG is not in your favor.

Sounds like an extremely niche or short term problem. Either a) you eventually catch these fish and it’s done for log or b) you do this enough times you should be able to gauge how much to prepare for a “round” of this.

Either way, an entire dedicated storage for this is unnecessary. And if you are that extreme niche case, you have saddlebags, just like every other niche case player.

[Sjol]

Sounds like an extremely niche or short term problem. Either a) you eventually catch these fish and it’s done for log or b) you do this enough times you should be able to gauge how much to prepare for a “round” of this.

Either way, an entire dedicated storage for this is unnecessary. And if you are that extreme niche case, you have saddlebags, just like every other niche case player.

Have you ever done it: Big fish hunting? It's kind of the end game for fishing, at least to my circle of friends. So, in my experience, it's not so niche and would be a very nice quality of life thing. As other people have mentioned, it could also be a space saver for SE as well. Honestly, it's their problem to solve or not. People who do a lot of fishing are expression their concern and frustration. They'll either take in that feedback or not.

And, yeah, fishing is niche by its nature, but a niche they've put a lot of time and energy into.

[ACE135]

People who do a lot of fishing are expression their concern and frustration.

I think that are just the people who want to catch all the big fish from level 50 to 90 at once? It's like wanting to complete the crafting log from level 1 to 90 at one and complaining that the inventory is too small to hold every needed item from level 1 to 90.

Always just do a few at a time.

[Wildsprite]

my personal take on a tackle box is make it a key item and all the things in it be key items, once you place them you can no-longer sell them.
they already do something similar with currency. they could do it with a tackle box key item.

[E4EO]

Or how about a crafting bag of sorts, where you can put all the materials in, including the baits.

Please for the love of the Twelve, this.

I find it ridiculous this game doesn't have bulk material storage, I used to hunt a ton back in Shb and thusly had a load of materia in my inventory, I also used to craft and gather too. The combined hunting materia and crafting mats were a nightmare for my inventory, if we had seperate inventory space for crafting stuff It'd be such a massive QoL feature.

Instead we're stuck with archaic retainers for crafting storage, we can't even send the materials to the retainers and instead have to drop it off manually.