Gear/Inventory Organization Tips/Tricks And Info

Right before maintenance I was attempting to do some rearranging/spring cleaning of my inventory and gear. I play 8 different jobs, 3 of them more than any and have most of that gear as readily available as possible. I use Storage slips, as everyone should, and use the delivery system queue for a few expendable items like pet food/jugs/etc. I also have a mule that I send gear that might have no use at the moment, but I might later use.

Considering 80 slots per Mog Safe/Satchel/Sack and Inventory (I exclude storage because I am usualy in Jeuno) what are some organizational strategies you all use that might make other's organizing less of a hassle?

I personally use my Mog Sack to store accessories (earrings/rings) and weapons (incl. ranged/ammo/grips/shields) and my Mog Satchel for Head/Body/Hands/Legs/Feet and accessories (neck/belt) that cannot go on storage slips. I use my Mog Safe to store upgrade items (geodes/'ites/seals/+2 items/forgotten items), pop sets for ADL and Odious items, as well as synergy materials. That's about as far as my organization goes.

I keep all of my weapons in my sack, along with consumables; staves, whm specific, and blm specific gear in my satchel, along with my storage slips; thf and dnc gear in my safe; and brd, rdm, smn, sch in my locker. My mage gear is all interchangeable, so I try to keep the specific stuff together and the interchangeable stuff together. I also never sort my locker and safe, that way when I need brd, I can scroll down until I see instruments and start pulling stuff out. I use the slips for my AF1, Relic, AF3, so I spend more time at the porter moogle job changing then in my actual MH.

Edit ~ I guess I should specify that I play blm and whm the most, so that is why I keep those items in my satchel for easy recovery.

My organizational skills are pretty straight forward:

Satchel has nearly all my BLU related gear + food, keys, etc that I'll need to swap in if needed.

Sack is a backup of Satchel, has other gear related for another job (WHM) that I tend to use a lot. Frequently used storage slips are stored here as well(Empy +1/+2)

Locker is a backup backup with other gear/etc on other jobs I use a lot (SMN, DNC, THF, BRD etc) + anything else that can be used universally with other jobs.

Mog Safe has long term items that I don't always shuffle through on a daily basis, such as +2 upgrade items, +1 seals on some jobs, dyna currency, other storage slips, silver mirrors, rifts, VW cells, etc

Storage are all the neglected, obsolete, or very lowbie items that I need to throw away eventually or sort through. Also has rare/ex pop items, limbus upgrade items, event items, etc. All other stuff is sent to mule for processing lol

In case you didn't realize, these can be sent to your mule as well.

Personally~

Storage has all my Empy +1 and +2 upgrade items(papers/coins/stones/etc), which almost fills it. Couple of other random trinkets.

Safe has my MNK/NIN/DNC gear because it shares a lot of stuff. They are also my most played jobs... Aside from MNK recently D:

Locker has my BLU/RDM stuff, but obviously some gear also comes from my safe (Oce head +1, for example).

Satchel has my WAR gear that isn't stored in a slip, proc weapons, ToTM stuff.

Sack has all my ninja tools, warp/retrace sticks/staves, food, temporary empy +1/+2 storage until I get to my mog house, pop items, etcetc.

Best tip I can think of is stay home mostly and make use of your Storage. With VW warp it's not hard to get to Jeuno. If it's the shouts you hang around for you can just watch the shouts online here.

I used to have a good organization...now all the gear and stuff is scattered randomly through the varies bags!

Mog Safe: Empyrean +2 upgrade items, Incomplete stacks of seals for next priority jobs.
Storage: Instruments, Low level, Obsolete/Unstorable. Pop items collecting dust.
Mog Locker: Heavy Armor Jobs (War, Pld, Drk, Bst, Sam, Drg)
Mog Sack: Light Armor Jobs (Mnk, Thf, Rng, Nin, Cor, Pup, Blu) Red Proc weapons. Storage Slips.
Mog Satchel Mage Jobs (Whm, Blm, Rdm, Brd, Smn) Elemental Staves. Crystals, Geodes, & Avatar stones.

If you pair your jobs like this in each location, the overlap for both unstorable armor and weapons will typically work out. I also prefer not to have my storage slips right in my inventory at any point if I can avoid it, just as a precaution. I find that you will rarely need the Heavy Armor jobs at the drop of a hat (i.e.: Abyssea) making them the most logical choice to put in a location that isn't accessible outside of your Mog House. As far as instruments go, I've found that the existence of Armageddon relegates bard specific instruments to Storage.

I pick my top 5 jobs and have them in the things off hand. Then my other 2 jobs are in mog safe. Storage and Mog Locker are used for stuff I don't often need.

To be honest you don't need to carry all sets for all jobs all the time. utilise the porter moogle for AFs, Relics and Empy armors. It really does free up a lot of space. Yes, it takes a couple mins extra when changing jobs but lets face it, you wont use 8 jobs in a space of a couple days or even weeks for some.

I like to go with the cluster *** method. You simply spread your ***out across all storage areas, than spend countless hours gearing. It requires little organization skill.

its realized, much with nearly every other rare/ex these days.

I approve of this method, it has been my method of choice for years and I couldn't play without it.

I have my most used jobs on me (other jobs that are currently not used often (drg, pld, dnc :(, etc.) the gear that cannot be porter'd goes to a mule). Now with my most popular jobs to used (at this time) I still keep as much on the porter as I can. Then I place the gear in the Safe and Locker. Things like weapons, obis, torques, go in satchel, my BILLION porter slips go in sack along with food, pet food, pets. All my pop items extra +1 seals +2 items go on mule until they are ready to be upgraded and stored on porter, or pop items to be pop'd.

My storage holds gear for the job I enjoy being on but am on the least.. if someone asks for that job. I have to go to my home nation.

In short.. if it can be stored and retrieved easily enough, it is. Extra jobs that I almost never use are muled, anything I'm not using often is also muled. And I still have no room :(

Same. I generally have no idea where my stuff is, save proc weapons which stay in sack and consumables. Thanks to gear collector I havent really looked where gear is in idk how long.

And the Find plugin, that thing is amazing :x

They can not be muled

They sure can be. I have 8 or so on one of my mules. Relic -1 cannot be muled though.

There is a slip for relic -1s now, though, which is handy and sexy.

Well I have yet to tinker w/ Gear Collector or the Find plugin, guess I can start learning it. Also, FFXICalc is a neat tool to keep record of what you DO have stored in your Porter Slips.

If anything if you don't want a program moving gear around because you like things a certain way (you can tell it to put what where though) then just use the Find plugin if you use windower.

I swear, just typing in

/find lure

and it lists all the items that have lure in the name so I can find where my lures are, or a certain food you misplaced, or to see how many tools you have left... its an amazing plugin and so simple too.

I have a solid spread of jobs and they are all geared with a high level of OCD,
each having MDT/PDT/Idle/etc as well as any useful gears that can be macro'd in, are.

Needless to say my organization method is much like the clusterfuck talked about earlier.

I do have a few basic things I do to stay somewhat in control of my gearing process.
I keep everything possible on the Porter Moogle and gear one job at a time.
I farm a lot and this habit makes that easy to jump right into on a whim.

Sets that can't be Porter'd stay together, all Athos's/Ogier's/etc are kept in the same
storage space, making it a bit easier to gear a certain job and hopefully not forget things.

Storage holds ***I can't mule or that I don't readily need access to.
Satchel holds geodes, proc weapons, food/meds/etc. and whatever random gears.
Sack holds Porter Slips, Beastmen Seals/etc, tele items like Tav Ring/Ram Staff/etc.
Things I may need at any given time regardless of the job I'm on are always with me.

I'm fairly sure this isn't helpful and certainly not groundbreaking
but this exact topic is like (insert made up percentage here) of my FFXI experience. lol

-Consumables, weapons, sachets, seals in sack
-Secondary BLU gear in satchel, regardless of usability on a different job.
-Light armor equipment in safe
-Heavy armor + miscellaneous mage (lolRDM) equipment in storage
-Fishing gear and miscellaneous unmuled crap (HMPs, sky pops, etc) in locker. If I played a mage more often/played more mage jobs I'd shift all the muleable stuff to said mules and move my mage gear in here.

Never used GC and frankly have no desire to start until a system is implemented by which you can specify where gear belongs. Even without GC it only takes me only 2-3 minutes to gear any job.

I simply refuse to use storage for anything of worth, until they make it accessible from all nations. Annoys me to death, as this should take them less than a minute to code in and is extremely desired by the majority of the player base.

I keep everything not MNK on the AH if I can sell it, porter it if I can, toss it if I can't.

Consumables, Seals, Pop items, and event/costume items in Satchel

Auxiliary BLU gear, ele staves, weapons, crafting materials in sack

Bodies, legs, and hands in safe

Feet, heads, weapons, ranged in locker

***for jobs I don't use and mog slips in storage

This used to be my method, and one of the reasons i spent countless hours running around Whitegate or Jeuno, just for being lazy to change job and join something <.<

Then i met her.. it was love at first sight, i was excited by just reading her name, i leave her take care of my mog house and put my stuff where she wants. I know that shes not for one man and that she has a lot of lovers around vanadiel, but.. she finish me in less than 2 minutes, even from mage to melee, i keep going back to her <.<

She's called Gear collector, use it, love it.

How does that program work? I would be scared of it accidentally tossing something><

The way I have my gear sorted is:
Mog Safe: WAR, SAM and PLD gear + Dynamis pop items
Mog Storage: Misc. gear and Storage slips
Mog Locker: THF and MNK gear + +2 items and Geodes/-ites
Inventory: BLU gear
Mog Sack: BLM and SCH gear + Elemental staves
Mog Satchel: BRD, WHM and COR gear + consumables (echo drops, warp items, food, etc)

Gear collector is awesome. It works off your xml spellcast files for whatever job you tell it to collect gear for.

It's awesome not only for faster gear collecting, but also so that you never forget a piece of gear. If it's not in your xml gearsets then you won't miss it.

Able to share an example .xml? :o