Selling an item of my gear set...no warning?

[Knowlesie75]

Hi

Apologies in advance if already asked.

I have sold items out of my Armour once or twice and i have found that the system does not stop me selling any item that is part of a gear set. FYI I think it was a level 1 item which you can not convert to Materia (which was why i sold it).

I had to redo the gear set for one of my crafts while laughing at what i had done! Of course once you sell it the gear set section on your character says item missing. If you have removed the main weapon you can not do anything but redo gear set.

Have I missed something or is there some simple and easy way to tell when u are trying to sell an item that is part of any one of your gear sets?

EDIT: BTW i know shop has buyback but i had exited shop before i realised what i had done.

EDIT 2: this would also go when coveting items to materia. You also get no warning.

[Myrhn]

You should know what you have on gear set, there is no way to tell them apart for other gear.

[Afon]

You can go back & use buyback so long as you don't leave the area, i.e zone.

[Knowlesie75]

You should know what you have on gear set, there is no way to tell them apart for other gear.

lol - while my memory is not the worst and i do kind of agree with you....remembering what items are on all 12 gear sets currently, when all are at different levels, is not the easiest thing for me. As well sometimes lower items are on to spirit bind them.

[HEC]

This was requested numerous times since early betas and if I'm not mistaken it was already confirmed as passed onto devs to evaluate if it would be possible to implement some kind of indications / markings of the items included in the sets however apart of that nothing mare was confirmed for sure. Till then - just be carefull with what you'se selling or rather keep your stuff with retainers or FC chests etc.

[Loxius]

Shouldn't be to hard to place an icon on it or something or just a number that is the same as you number your sets.

[Knowlesie75]

I think
- Icon would work as numbers would get messy if the same piece was on multiple gear.
- How they do icon so you know which multiple gear sets an item is on would be interesting as opposed to just attached to one of your various gear sets
- Having said that knowing which gear set they are attached to would save a lot of time as if an item is attached to one gear set and you have to trawl thru a few gear sets to find could be frustrating.

There was something from Square about icons due to memory issues.

EDIT: i guess a filter type arrangement could work in with this. ie show items on all gear sets vs set number 1, 2, 3 etc

[HEC]

Shouldn't be to hard to place an icon on it or something or just a number that is the same as you number your sets.

Well it's not har to slap the icon there, the "hard" bit is to have a system to keep track of all of it at all times which takes indeed game resources plus development time.

[Gonzothegreat198]

Well it's not har to slap the icon there, the "hard" bit is to have a system to keep track of all of it at all times which takes indeed game resources plus development time.

I know in WoW, if you used outfitter, it added the name of the item set that the item belonged to, to the tooltip. Don't see why they couldn't do that here. At least I think it was WoW...

[Efrye]

Well it's not har to slap the icon there, the "hard" bit is to have a system to keep track of all of it at all times which takes indeed game resources plus development time.

Development resources, sure, but it shouldn't take game resources. The system already knows when a gear set is missing one of its components. In other words, your items are already flagged as belonging to a specific gear set. All that's left to do is give the gear icon a 5x5 flat color overlay to make this flag visible to the player. They already have the overlay system in place to display materia slots so that's not an issue either.

It's likely one of the more simple things to do, it just isn't high on their priority list. Personally, I agree that a pop-up when selling them and a small gear set indication overlay - even if it doesn't display which set the item belongs to - would be great. But there are probably more pressing matters when it comes to the interface right now.