Let us craft from Retainer Inventory

[AttacKat]

Retainers were a mistake back in 1.x, and it is still a mistake now under the current bare bone implementation.

They are:
1. Hard to access, other then limited locations in cities and inaccessible in the field
2. disorganized and unsorted items
3. Inability to determine the total number you have for a given item (ie: 37 in total inv, vs 10 in R1, 20 in R2, and 7 in inv)
4. Ineffective when it comes to gather materials needed for a given "bill of materials"

The old 1.x inventory lack-of-management system needs to go, and a much improved system is way over due.

EDIT:

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 ..

You can TP from no where to any TP node, so why not your material? Since when a FF game is so limited?

jc