I’ve seen many beginner players hold on to way too many items, and as a result their inventories are a MESS. In this video, I will show you my personal philosophy when it comes to inventory management in FFXIV.
00:00 Introduction
00:24 Don’t Hoard Items
02:50 Use Categorized Retainers
04:16 How to Get Rid of Gear
05:46 Buy Gear Only When Needed
06:09 HQ/NQ Items
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Well, after this video i ask myself "then what should i do with all my poetic Tomestones?"
what is the most sensible use for them?
Ah yes just when I run out of space I find this video.
Awesome! I didn‘t know I could send my retainer sell stuff at an noch lol… thanks for that hint!
oh my god this video could not have come out a more perfect time. my retainers are maxed and i have 7 slots in my inventory, desperately needed help with inventory space.
With almost 2k or more hours I now find a vid….
Hoarding items is sadly more neccessary on the free trial. As there is no market board, it also sucks that I get no retainers alongside this
Thankfully the crafting system has been OVERHAULED to remove a lot of the random HQ materials, that singlehandedly emptied pages of inventory.
I just gave things to my retainers, now I have enough space left to keep hoarding until I find the motivation to look through what I actually need. Which will be after the MSQ at the earliest, I'd guess. That said, I gave away some equipment to my Grand Company for seals to rank up. I'm currently comfortably at just below 1.5 million gil, so don't really care about selling right now.
In case you're skeptical about downgrading HQ items: all crafting classes get a skill which, at higher levels, instantly fills their quality meter for any crafted item of level 80 or below. That means they don't need an increase to quality from HQ reagents, because they just have to press one button to make quality irrelevant (again, except for 81+ materials), which means HQ and normal items are, for most intents and purposes, exactly the same. I didn't realize this for a while, which made me think low-level HQ materials were more valuable than they actually were.
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I saw your Retainers are both Summoners. Why? I don't know much about retrainers or if their jobs even matter. A Guide to Retainers would be helpful!
Further: Might I suggest a video on converting back and forth? I.e. Allied Seals (name?) from weekly monster hunts to Company Seals, which can buy valuable Moonstone to sell for gil.
Especially for us free trial players, a lot of good moneymakers and partying systems aren't available so ideas are adppreciated!
Wait, hold up, you can convert high quality mats into normal quality? Dear god, this changes everything.
Thanks Jolsn.. been playing for 4 years and used your method of downgrading HQ to normal and saved a TON of room on all my retainers… wow, I had no reason to keep all that HQ because all my crafters are 90 and fully geared. lol
Just started game, have yet to get retainer, but found your video very helpful already, thanks so much.
I recently finished the MSQ and was just wondering what to do with all the crap in my inventory, and this video was super helpful.
The putting gear in my inventory has saved me a lot of time. Only thing I do with any left side pieces is see if I want to keep it for glamor or not. Got a different set up for myself about where I put things. I have one Retainer for materia one for sell items, 1 for "rare" items I am going to use to craft glam. (Treasure dungeon drops.)
It’s good to know that the habits I picked up along the way are listed here…but I could’ve probably used this back when I was starting out.
So I should discard some of the unsellable items I cannot vendor/sell or desynth? Kind of my gripe is that the game just stuffs everything in the inventory
Sir you are a SOLDIER! I'm shook on how little items you have! and I'm here with 5 retainers each hoarding materials/items for housing, crafting, glam/gear etc. Its so hard to not feel like you might need certain things but Im gonna try to implement your tips!
what is the mod for opening all bags at once with one border?
You having the audacity to traumatize crafters currently with a clean inventory and also showing gripgel
Time to get all Mari Kondo on my inventory
It's nice to keep some stuff in circulation just for other's convenience, and you'll make a fair share of gil market boarding from time to time yeah
Yeah just a note. Shire gear is bought with tomes which is capped for gains until much later in the game and typically is the best gear set for 5-8 levels after their required equip level. Most jobs in the same role type use the same gear so time gear isn’t always worth the pitifully small amount of GC seals you get in return. Now vendoring all the floor trash from duties absolutely go nuts because if you rerun those duties you won’t even be able to get dupes until you GC vendor them so there is no point in hanging into those.
Also might I suggest making another video about what items you absolutely SHOULD make sure you don’t vendor since it is important or valuable? I damn need NOC’d my first of two free Tav onions from MSQ before someone told me what they did and they were running 140k a pop at the time.
Step one, don't hoard items.
Welp failed already. My rpg mentality brain going, "What If I need later.." Later happens never to use them
Altho as someone that has been leveling all crafters at about same time (also thanks to your ultimate crafter leveling video (lvl 71 currently) )it's been nice a bit of hoarding.
So that's what the retainer comment can be used,also TIL that hq ingredients can be lowered, nice for items pre gatherer hq change.
Will try to implemente these on both my retainers and my inventory, Thnks
I always lack poetics. There are so many things you can use them for.