Let us craft from Retainer Inventory

[Crimsonforce]

i dont really mind going into the retainer to get stuff, sure it would be faster to let us craft from it. but what i dont like is how you cant even tell how many of those items you have in the bank say if i had 1 "oak log" in my inventory it says 1/99(total:1) i just wish it would tell you have many you had in the bank aswell

[HurtigeKarl]

I love crafting in this game. It has been done extremely well. In fact, its so good I often find my entire inventory is full of crafting materials...as well as my Retainers. I end up having to spend an inordinate amount of time trading back and forth with my Retainer to get the crafting mats I need to keep going.

I propose that SE give us the ability to craft items with ingredients stored in the Retainer's inventory. To make it a little more realistic, I would require that the Retainer actually be summoned so they can "assist" by "handing the materials over" when I need them.

Not only would this make crafting more efficient and fun by reducing non-value added inventory management annoyances but it would leave more of your character's inventory open for precious loot.

Inventory management is an important part of crafting that leads to interesting decisions. Removing the decisions altogether is just dumbing down the game, so no thank you.

I can't even click the retainer bell due to idiots standing on top of it. Why do people do this? PLEASE give us our own bell in our room.

Rebind the "confirm" function to a key you can easily access. I got mine bound to "V". That way you just use "V" to access retainer in one press.

i dont really mind going into the retainer to get stuff, sure it would be faster to let us craft from it. but what i dont like is how you cant even tell how many of those items you have in the bank say if i had 1 "oak log" in my inventory it says 1/99(total:1) i just wish it would tell you have many you had in the bank aswell

Yet another "dumbing down" change that people want to implement. Maybe take the time to actually organize your retainer so that you know where all your stuff is? Currently, you have to gauge the value of organizing your retainer vs spending that time crafting instead; that's an interesting decision you want to remove.

I speak of this as a crafter that has lv50 in all professions and can HQ i70 100% in 4 out of 8 of them. So yeah, I got some experience.

[Espi]

Could you imagine the army of crafters setting up shop around the summoning bells...

[complexxL9]

/signed
Also make it so the number of items owned in the tooltip, count the items on you retainer too. Now there is no way of knowing if you actually have said item unless you check you retainers every time..

[BlackPriest]

I can't even click the retainer bell due to idiots standing on top of it. Why do people do this? PLEASE give us our own bell in our room.

You do have your own bell in your inn.

[Dragonheart]

Eh GW2 and many other mmo allows this, why not FF that is a game much more craft based than any other mmo?

[Deathgasm]

Ok with this idea at the condition it's an option that I won't use

I am the one who craft, so I'll have to take the mats from the retainer, hand to hand, that's what is happening now.

How do you explain you'll craft something in "Podunk" (in the middle of nowhere), using retainer's mats when that retainer is located in one of the main town? Mats are not sentient to use any kind of ether teleportation flow ..

Anyway, that will never be implemented, just because it's not worthy for SE to put some devs on this.

[Velev]

I love crafting in this game. It has been done extremely well. In fact, its so good I often find my entire inventory is full of crafting materials...as well as my Retainers. I end up having to spend an inordinate amount of time trading back and forth with my Retainer to get the crafting mats I need to keep going..

Great point and i am sure many would agree.

Either that or least when we hover over some mats or items in the crafting log, while our characters inventory might not have any of the mats showing a (0), it would be nice if it would show us that our retainers have (xx) of that particular item/mat instead of making us run to our retainers to check which retainer has what.
This happens to me a lot since my retainers a littered with crafting mats that i have to filter through to find what i need.

[Deathgasm]

Use this "inconvenience" to train your memory. You'll see you'll remember all what you have, how much units, and where, pretty quickly.

[Velev]

Use this "inconvenience" to train your memory. You'll see you'll remember all what you have, how much units, and where, pretty quickly.

While i would agree with you of course, considering one of my retainers is full and the other one is close to being full, that makes a total of about
5x5= 25 items per page
7x25 = 175 items per retainer
175 x 2=.... see where this is going?

If we were talking about 100 items then yeah, no problem remembering but there are more than 300 items.

Sure i can recall plenty but why should i if a simple system can be put in place.