Final Fantasy XIV Adding Inventory In Patch 7.5

On Friday Final Fantasy XIV's Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida hosted his 91st Producer's Live Letter. While many were looking at the new content coming in patch 7.5, what struck me were the changes to inventory coming in the final major patch of Dawntrail. Three major systems, dyes, the armorie, and player housing are receiving changes that will allow packrats like myself to store more items.

First up are the changes to the dye system. The change will free up a maximum of 102 inventory slots as the devs will collapse 105 dyes down to 3. The largest chunk of dyes are the 85 dyes introduced in A Realm Reborn.  The next chunk are the dyes introduced in the Ishgardian Restoration and available for sale on your Island Sanctuary. Those dyes are:

• Ruby Red Dye
• Cherry Pink Dye
• Canary Yellow Dye
• Vanilla Yellow Dye
• Dragoon Blue Dye
• Turquoise Blue Dye
• Gunmetal Black Dye
• Pearl White Dye
• Metallic Brass Dye

The final group were added as part of Cosmic Exploration.

• Carmine Red
• Neon Pink
• Bright Orange
• Neon Yellow
• Neon Green
• Azure Blue
• Violet Purple
• Metallic Pink
• Metallic Ruby Red
• Metallic Cobalt Green
• Metallic Dark Blue

Of course, dye colors available from the cash shop and their in-game variants will still take up their own slots. But that's only 40 different dyes. I checked and personally I will save 73 inventory slots once patch 7.5 is released late next month.

Next up are the changes to the Armoire. The eventual home of all cash shop and event glamour items, in patch 7.5 the Armoire will also store all job specific (artifact) armor. If anyone is like me, that means freeing up slots in both my glamour dresser and amongst my retainers. The developers are going one step further and allowing the storage of gear from patch 7.x dungeons. I hope that means from the main Dawntrail dungeons also. 

A hopeful sign is the intention to go back and make the dungeon gear from earlier expansions placeable in the Armoire. As bad of a combat player as I am, I can do previous dungeon content solo. Plus, I'll have enough space for all the Nier cross-over event gear. I'm pretty sure I can run that now.

Finally comes the expansion of both item limits in both housing and housing storage. I know a lot of people disregard housing but all players have access to apartments. I was able to decorate an apartment fairly well with less than 100 items. Now the limit goes up to 150. But perhaps more importantly the number of housing items I can store goes up to 150 as well. Add in the outdoor housing item limits and I believe I can clear out most of the outdoor items I have on my retainers.

I don't know how many people looked at the Producers Live Letter and thought of all the additional things they could hoard. But I'm looking forwards to the addition to the inventory game coming in patch 7.5.