Crafting / Inventory is a pain in the ass

[Fors]

I like this game. But the thing that makes me crazy is combining items. There is no recipe list, you don't know what the item is good for before making it. The inventory is a mess. Am I supposed to remember what every ingredient does?. Am I supposed to check every ingredient in my inventory till I find the item i want to make?

Am I doing something wrong or is it really this bad?

[Paradox]

http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/Combining

That's a handy list to have around. However, since you can purchase most stuff you need en masse, crafting in this game is more of an afterthought than anything else.

[ROFLpl0x]

Yup, it really is that bad BUT you will be surprised at not only how many recipes you can actually remember but also where each ingredient is in that jumbled mess known as your inventory.

At the same time, though, you'll eventually start accumulating tons of potions and such and be rolling in enough gold to just buy whatever you can't find laying around in large enough quantities. At that point and coupled with the very high to complete immunity to a whole slew of debilitations in late game, there'll probably be only a few things you'll want to craft and it becomes less of an issue unless you just like to craft stuff.

[Sailor Gloom]

Sadly as robust (but messy) the list of stuff you can make is, almost all of the items in the game are useless when you can just buy health/ stamina replenish items at the shop and your resident mage can take care of status effects.

[Karathrax]

Does no one use the Optimize function to sort stuff? It's not exactly the way I'd choose to sort my stuff, but it does work.

With a controller, select one item in inventory then press Y and it gives you four different ways to organize the category. I don't use k/m, so... oh, and selecting an item when you're talking to an innkeeper allows you to press START, which will dump the entire category of items straight into storage, too.

[ROFLpl0x]

Originally posted by Karathrax:

Does no one use the Optimize function to sort stuff? It's not exactly the way I'd choose to sort my stuff, but it does work.

With a controller, select one item in inventory then press Y and it gives you four different ways to organize the category. I don't use k/m, so... oh, and selecting an item when you're talking to an innkeeper allows you to press START, which will dump the entire category of items straight into storage, too.

I think the main problem with the inventory is that there's a blue million different ingredients in the game, many of which share the same icon, and just about as many possible combinations of them. It would've been a whole lot easier for the game to just store a combination as a recipe once you discovered it instead of making you have to remember the combination or keep trying to combine what you think are the right parts until the expected outcome tells you it's the stuff you're trying to make, or hunt through all the shared icons until you find the one you already know you need.

Sorting the inventory is helpful but it doesn't do anything to help with that. Besides, the game already remembers when you discover a combination. The practical thing to do would have been to go ahead and store that combination as a recipe so you didn't have to go hunting through your inventory every time you wanted to make that thing again.