Inventory Optimizer Guide

Basic introduction to the Inventory Optimizer

The groups

Items bought with Gil

In this section, the optimizer will list all the items that can be obtained through Gil purchases, this group will likely be the area you'll make use of the ignore item function (explained below).

Very handy if you have a bunch of items worth a few gil taking up space.

This group only shows items worth gil and 0 beast tribe rep (so no unwelcome beast tribe requirements)

Duplicate Items

This is likely the most used tab in the optimizer. There are few things more annoying than running out of space.

This is where this tab will help. No longer will you items be spread out filling up different slots.

The best way to use this, is to go by retainer name and condense this list down step by step, eventually you'll have certain retainers holding certain items and you can enjoy your space.

Small Stacks

This group was brought in, because there is nothing worse than having 1 or 2 of an item sitting on a retainer taking up a whole slot. Once you have checked for gil items and duplicated, this is your third stop.

You can change the threshold, ideally between 1-5, if you go too high, you will get a lot of items.

Old Materials

The section labeled "Old materials that are only used to make low iLvl items" can be a helpful tool for getting rid of materials that you may have stocked up, but that aren't used in any high ilvl crafts.

You can input a value in the "Min Resulting iLvl" filter to tell the optimizer that you want to keep all the materials that are used for making items with a resulting item level equal to or greater than this value.

This optimizer DOES span entire recipe trees to find what a material can be used for, below will be a couple of examples. These examples use information accurate as of patch 5.2.

Our first example will be Gold Ore. Directly, it can only be used to craft 5 items (Aurum Regis Nugget, Gold Ingot, Rose Gold Nugget, Stonegold Ingot and Stonegold Nugget). Of these, Stonegold Ingot has the highest item level at 395. However, through the use of Stonegold nuggets, we can make several weapons that are item level 450, such as Skystrider and Tutelary, among many others. Therefore, gold ore is treated has being useful for crafting items up to ilvl 450, and if your filter is set to anything equal to or below 450, gold ore will NOT appear in the list (remember, the optimizer is telling you things you should be able to discard). Conversely, if your filter is set higher than 450, gold ore will be listed, indicating it cannot satisfy your ilvl requirement and CAN be discarded (barring specific uses you may have for it).

Our second example will be Tin Ore. Directly, it is only used to craft a Bronze Ingot, with an item level of 1. However, we all know Bronze Ingots are used to make several items with a higher item level than that, and so the recipe tree is scoured to see what it can make. Tin ore is a strange beast in this regard; it can be used to craft the Order of Nald'thal Lectern, a housing item with an item level of 110. So in the midst of gear around item level 20-30 that bronze is used for, this one furnishing bumps it up to ilvl 110 for filters. Further, bronze is also used for several Company Workshop crafts, including airship and submarine parts. These are crafts that are pretty specific to each individual, and it is up to the user to decide if they want something like tin ore sitting around (in this case though, tin ore can be bought from several vendors for 2 gil each, so you may want to take that into account).

Regardless, tin ore will only appear if your ilvl filter is higher than 110 for this reason, if you have something you personally want to keep it for, simply click the eye on the right side to hide it from view, same as the other optimizers.

All in all, this optimizer can be good for clearing out the troves of low level crafting materials you may have been holding on to (loads of mushrooms and branches from early leveling anyone?) and not sure if they were going to be used for higher level crafts. It is, however, not an end-all to what you should and shouldn't keep, and a bit of discretion will go a long way while using this particular tool.

Ignored Items

Ignore function

You will likely hit a point where you run into limited or unique items in one of the three groups.

To hide an item, simply press the red eye icon

I would recommend as you come across items you find to be unique, to ignore them as you go, this will stop you constantly seeing items you don't plan to discard or sell.

If you were to accidentally add something to the ignore list, or as time goes on no longer be relevant, that is where Show ignored items comes in.

While in this mode, you can press the Blue eye icon to remove it from the ignore list.

Requirements for using Optimizer

Due to the need for TC to know what your inventory and retainers have, you need to use the Teamcraft client with data parsing turned on. It is also recommended to clean your inventory and rebuild it before using the optimizer for the first time, to make sure you have up to date information.