Retainer Max Level?

I posted in the bug forum but thinking now after further investigation this may not be a bug. I have a miner/gatherer and a conjurer retainer. The miner is fine hes been levelling up OK, but the conjurer stopped at lvl 8. When I checked the character page it said "max level 8" up in the right corner, where miner says 50. Thing is my main conjurer class is level 13 or 14. I understand we couldn't choose a class we haven't begun. But I chose conjurer because I thought it would help me level that main class, by way of maybe odd gear drops or something. Anyway why 8?

I have not been able to find any information either here or googled as to this max level and its mechanics, can anyone provide any info? Why have all the battle classes represented if they cant help your main character with that class? I understand you can gear them with hand-me-downs but then what is the point of having all the classes covered and not just a generic battler that can wear any dow/dom.

They can only lvl up to the same lvl you have lvl'd something yourself.

Again my main class conjurer is 13, retainer is stopped at 8. 0/7350 exp no matter if I do more quests.

In any case I will be reassigning if this is the case, I'm dissapointed as I assumed having the classes was intended as a leg up to something you were levelling. For instance if your Blacksmith was level 20, you could chose miner for retainer (after starting miner on your main class to level 1) and have it start accumulating some mats you could use on your Blacksmith eventually. My main class miner is already level 50, what use to make retainer miner and gather old stuff you don't need anymore.

While this has not been mentioned explicitly in the Patch notes (it only says that max level for retainer si 50 and that it cannot exceed the class levek of your character) I do believe this is an intentional design - on all my multiply characters bellow level 50 the retainers show max level 5 levels below max level of those characters (all in between 18 - 25) while on lvl 50 characters (but with with higher iLVLs) it shows max retainers levels as 50. While this migh seems odd it actually doesn't contradict the info in the patch notes - you CAN reach 50 and you can't go over the max level of the same class - they've just "forget" to mention, that before your character class hit's 50 the retainer max level will be 5 levels bellow yours. And - indeed - it could be bug as well but I doubt it.

That the retainer cannot exceed your own level in the same class is certainly intentional and is even explained in the in-game help screens that come up when you first unlock retainer ventures and classes. The five-level gap, however, that stops your retainer's level several levels below your own, does not match the way the game describes the system. It's what players have figured out based on where many people's retainers seem to be stuck, but the fact that it doesn't match the in-game descriptions of the feature suggests that it could be a bug.

Well the -5 lvls gaps (while not explicitly mentioned anywhere) is still not contradicting anything in the description. As per my post above - on characters with class(es) at LVL50 (and most certainly almost always iLVL55+) it will allow you to have reainers up to level 50 - so it might be intentional while "undocumented" behaviour rather than bug. We definitelly need dev's clarificatoin on this.