I understand the devs are working on a gear management solution but everything I’ve read suggests it will revolve around the concept of loadouts. I am fully in support of the loadout idea and have my fingers crossed that the implementation will be elegant and practical.
However, I’m concerned that there is a far more fundamental problem with the inventory system than just finding the sets we’re using. I often hear people’s frustration that they can’t find something or their despair that they have actually lost something. The solutions I read about for this are to combine all storage into one container and add the perk filter from the Trading Post. This would go some way toward helping but would still miss the things the perk filter doesn’t currently catch.
What I would like is custom containers or inventory sections. So, I might like to make a section for Bind on Equip gear, Stuff to give to new company members, Corrupted gear, Angry Earth gear, etc. You might make categories called BIS, PVP gear, etc. The point is that we could choose categories that make sense to us, instead of having to work around the assigned categories that really don’t work very at all.
I don’t know how hard that would be to implement, but I think it would go a long way toward easing the stress of gear management in New World by allowing us to organise our items in a way that makes sense to us.