Lazy retainers

Both of my retainers just brought me a HQ Striped Goby. Now if only they could bring me those new dyes.

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Originally Posted by Nuinn

My retainer likes to slap me in the face with house walls, roofs, furniture.... The sadist loooOOOooves putting more salt on my wound. Bring me plot permit for a change goddamnit!!!

They also seem to have an very obscene fetish for fish >.>

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Hello I'm Troy McClure, you may remember me from ventures like "Dig Your Own mineral and Save” and “The Erotic Adventures of the Miqo'te retainer”.....

I guess mine are special, barely at level 10 she brought me a lv4 materia that sold for 70k

And now and then I get an item that can sell for 20 to 60k.

My retainer is an i82 arcanist and usually brings me fish or housing materials, which discourages me. But then she'll bring me a Raging Vortex Couch or Ultima Ring of Slaying or the Leviathan fountain, so I keep sending her out. What is that called, Gambler's fallacy? :P I always hope, "This time she'll bring me something cool."

Ive gotten where I just use my lancer retainer for quick ventures primarily and my miner gathers whatever resource is selling well. So the DoW one is my RNG gamble one and the DoL one I can make 10-15k gil per venture based on the level she's at. The more interesting quick venture items I've gotten include a Tonberry Chandelier which I sold for a few hundred thousand gil (since my private room has a Morbol chandelier already) and I got some Manor/Stone Vigil furniture which were in the 100k+ range on marketboard but I kept because I figure gil comes and goes but particularly valuable furniture that comes my way via that route has more meaning to me vs if I bought it.

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Originally Posted by Garlyle

However, Quick Ventures are still really, really random. You can get almost anything in the game - high level unique pieces of gear you won't see, for instance, like Relics or High Allagan - but you can see the furnishing material drop from Turn 9 for instance*. ...Or Malm Kelp.

Higher gear does allow you to do more Hunting/Gathering ventures and the 18h Field Exploratoins, however, and the higher tiers of that provide better results. More importantly they provided consistent results, as they're either fixed items or from extremely small pools of possible items.

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HA? really? :p

And no, your retainer still can bring you lots of craps even with highest gear equips.

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Originally Posted by SummonerSenah

My retainer is an i82 arcanist and usually brings me fish or housing materials, which discourages me. But then she'll bring me a Raging Vortex Couch or Ultima Ring of Slaying or the Leviathan fountain, so I keep sending her out. What is that called, Gambler's fallacy? :P I always hope, "This time she'll bring me something cool."

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Nah, it's only the Gambler's Fallacy if, after getting Malm Kelp twenty times in a row, you tell yourself, "Well, I've gotten crappy stuff twenty times in a row - that means that I'm due for something great on the next run!"

As long as you understand that past results have no bearing on future gambles, you're not falling victim to the fallacy!

Just quietly curse your retainer's name under your breathe after they give you another damn fish/furniture/entire house before you send them off on another quick exploration again.*

Within the next few ventures they'll feel bad for disappointing you time and time again and bring you some of that new rare dye or some reasonably/extremely valuable crafting item they mugged somebody for. Works 99% of the time for me.

*For extreme disappointment, send them off on an 18h exploration when you don't even need to log off yet. That'll show 'em for wasting your time.

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Originally Posted by SummonerSenah

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Does she bring you these things from field exploration or quick ventures? I have one retainer that I send out regularly on field exploration, but he doesn't really bring me anything of note. He's only lv 37 though. My other one isn't geared high enough to send on the highest ones so I'm not bothering until I can get her geared properly. Should I be sending them on quick ventures instead? I'm worried I'll run out of ventures if I do that :P

both my retainer are ilvl 80+ (ACN/ CNJ) the most valuable item they ever brought back was

http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/t/e4e...45ea453e_2.png

lately, they have brought back nothing but item that is less than 300 gils on MB