Retainer Ventures...

(Great i messed up the title...my bad for crappy typo, any Forum rep wanna fix my typo please?) Edit: ( Thank You ! )
- meh, lets just call it "i got the forum lisp"

So yeah, is there really nothing else that my retainer can find but the following?

Lv.50 Field Exploration XIV - Archer
4x Allagan Silver Piece
3x Hippogryph Skin (HQ)

I've had this for serveral days straight now...

Lv.50 Highland Exploration XIV - Miner
4x Allagan Silver Piece
3x Gold Ore (HQ) (it's either this or Volcanic Rocksalt)

There must be something more usefull available at this difficulty right? :confused:

I mean if there's nothing else to be found "randomly", it's
really pointless to even bother sending out the retainer for
18 hours and come back with something i can gather myself
within much less time.

Tiny Tapir, the minion is the only other thing I'm aware of. They are pretty worthless otherwise.

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Originally Posted by Tiraelina

Tiny Tapir, the minion is the only other thing I'm aware of. They are pretty worthless otherwise.

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Yeah i heard a friend got this one, so thats the only reason i sent my retainers out..but well... nothing yet

Mine brings me back nothing but skins....

I got meat on my first attempt (WHM retainer :p), but yesterday got the minion and regretted not selling it since it was hella expensive.

My fisher has brought me back 2 young water lilies, which are about 200k a piece. But mostly, it's just junk. :P

I receive a number of mossy weapons as well fairly often from this level of venture.

Venture loot need serious reworking, imo. And it's not even a question of adding more items, rather removing a buttload of them. And seriously, stop the madness of DoW/DoM retainers bringing back one piece of fish. Like what the heck. Make the "junk" loot be crafted mats (lumbers, leathers, etc - things that are either unobtainable until a certain level in a certain class and/or are sold only in 60-99 bunches for stellar prices) and make it something like 5-10 pieces. Perhaps with occasional shards/crystals/clusters, dark/carbonized matters, different types of materia (not only elemental/attribute ones, which is all I seem to get). Not saying I want stockpile of the rarest stuff, but make them actually...meaningful, y'know? That way it'd feel less of a waste of time on the RNGods' altar for a minion or Gysahl Ring or whatnot otherwise unobtainable pieces.
Not to even mention - 18hr exploration mission for the same price as a 1hr digging in the storehouse? And why are ventures, by in-game description, a currency, inventory items instead of just listed on our Currency tab in the Character window?

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Originally Posted by BreathlessTao

Venture loot need serious reworking, imo. And it's not even a question of adding more items, rather removing a buttload of them. And seriously, stop the madness of DoW/DoM retainers bringing back one piece of fish. Like what the heck. Make the "junk" loot be crafted mats (lumbers, leathers, etc - things that are either unobtainable until a certain level in a certain class and/or are sold only in 60-99 bunches for stellar prices) and make it something like 5-10 pieces. Perhaps with occasional shards/crystals/clusters, dark/carbonized matters, different types of materia (not only elemental/attribute ones, which is all I seem to get). Not saying I want stockpile of the rarest stuff, but make them actually...meaningful, y'know? That way it'd feel less of a waste of time on the RNGods' altar for a minion or Gysahl Ring or whatnot otherwise unobtainable pieces.

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You're getting fish because you're doing quick ventures, which can bring back a whole slew of possible items, including fish. The normal Ventures have a very limited set of items for each one.

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Originally Posted by ispano

You're getting fish because you're doing quick ventures, which can bring back a whole slew of possible items, including fish. The normal Ventures have a very limited set of items for each one.

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Yes, thank you, I've been aware of all this. Doesn't make either of them any less pointless/useless/stupid; especially getting one low-level nq fish 9 out of every 10 quick venture (with the 10th being a piece of junk furniture that now sells for lower on the MB than to NPC vendors).