Inventory Sort is desperately needed

[casker]

what the heck happened to inventory sort

trying to juggle multiple suits of gear, raw materials, all the things you craft while you level, all the materia you create

suffering

please bring inventory sort back ASAP. Being that this game is designed to have you play multiple classes inventory sorting is as essential to quality of life as having multiple gear sets. Dealing with inventory is especially a pain because you can only look at one bag at a time

[Simaril]

I've been trying to lv all DoH and DoL to 15 to give myself a strong crafting base, and inventory was a nightmare, especially before I got my first retainer!!! I actually like that you have to be 20 to have a retainer, and I'm not sure a simple "sort" is what I want.

Some ideas:
-let HQ and normal items stack together
-give players filters to determine what goes in each tab (I would like my 1st tab to be consumables, tab 2 to be raw materials, tab 5 to be gear...etc)
-materia bag
-tackle box (fishing lures)
-CUL has way too many items - idk how to fix it - cooler, spice rack?
-Even the armory is tough when trying to level DoL, and DoH... tool box? Or maybe just ONE hammer for BSM, GSM, CRP, ARM, MIN?
-some inventory limit makes sense, but you need so much stuff!

I'm sort of at a loss for how you're "supposed to" do it. It makes sense to collect the stuff you need then make it into things, but you simply can't do that.

[savarah]

There is a basic inventory sort in the game, you can enable it under the Character Settings.
It does it like, if you put food in page 3, new food goes there... tackle in page 2, so tackle goes there... not the best though.

But would love a button that sorts by class/class lvl :3

[Moesugi]

It's not sorting, it's the tag that's needed.

I'd love to know which mats goes to which profession(Skin will have a Leatherworking tag in it for eg). Whenever you got your hand on a new mats, you're like "What does this do?" and can't sort it properly.

The same could also be apply for gear set, having taken almost all class as I am, I have no idea which gear is on what set.

Having taken FATE as an idea from Guild Wars 2(I think so), it seems SE didn't even try to take as much of their idea as they can.

For eg, in GW2, you have access to a material bank, you can access it from everywhere and automatically sort item in place, and you can place your mat in there just with 1 click. That's the sort of thing FF14 currently need. I believe SE somehow made this awesome idea of GW2 into what we know as "Armoury Chest", which, afaik, fail horribly when it come to sorting.

[Travisdy]

I'd even settle for sorting alphabetically at this point. Not the best, but SOMETHING is needed.

[harkinate]

-let HQ and normal items stack together

What in God's Green Earth would that accomplish? I'd rather not make things more confusing..thank you.

The rest of your ideas are decent though. I just think a regular alpahabetical sort would go a long way at this point.

As for identifying which Armory gear belongs to which set..easy to fix (in theory), just add set numbers to the equipment icon while they're in your Armory. Boosh.

[Sinbios]

I'd even settle for sorting alphabetically at this point. Not the best, but SOMETHING is needed.

This game seems to be designed to sort items by internal database ids, which is of course invisible to and absolutely useless for the player. For example try listing some items on the market, the list of items you're selling will not be sorted in any obvious order; not by time listed, price, quantity, or even name. Even two of the same item listed one after the other won't be next to each other on the list, but in seemingly arbitrary positions. I honestly have no idea what the devs were thinking, except maybe to purposefully waste the player's time. Same with items for sale in the shop, they're grouped by category but within each category it's a complete mess.

[Sinbios]

What in God's Green Earth would that accomplish?

Saves space.

[Zareth]

Saves space.

And how do you decide which item to use afterwards if they're in the same stack? How do you tell them apart? I don't think allowing HQ and normal items to stack would work unless you remove the HQ version. I guess in a sense, you'd be trading away quality for quantity. I think I'll pass on that idea. I've always been more of a quality type of person.

[Sinbios]

And how do you decide which item to use afterwards if they're in the same stack? How do you tell them apart? I don't think allowing HQ and normal items to stack would work unless you remove the HQ version. I guess in a sense, you'd be trading away quality for quantity. I think I'll pass on that idea. I've always been more of a quality type of person.

For crafting you can already select NQ or HQ. For usable items, maybe have a dialogue to choose NQ vs HQ when assigning it to the hotbar?