Dawntrail 7.0 Retainer Perception Test Results

Just as previous expansion, for MIN & BTN, "gathering" is just a stat that allows the retainer to gather a particular type of mat. The required gathering amount is clearly stated.

Meanwhile, higher "perception" allows retainers to bring back more mats per venture run. The threshold values for perception is not clearly stated. Thus, I did some tests to determine the threshold values.

The test results are shown in this table below:
https://i.imgur.com/uhwbwyO.png

Intriguingly, both lvl 98 and lvl 99 items appeared to increase in number TOGETHER. This is not a mistake in the table.

My melds to achieve 4906 perception are shown below:
https://i.imgur.com/qmv9vpr.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/HfQbDVy.png

You can see that I am still using a very old choker from Endwalker.
If I substitute that with the melded i690 choker, I'd get 4924 perception:
https://i.imgur.com/blP08JS.png

From my tests, this made no impact at all. So I am keeping most of my retainers at 4906.

My melds above were done using ONLY materia from Endwalker. This is because the new Tier XI and XII materia are still very precious at the moment in 7.0. I have no intention of wasting them until newer gear are arriving in later patches (as usual, our left gear will be replaced soon enough anyway).

In fact, my retainers are more heavily melded than myself. I am mostly loaded with GP instead of gathering or perception. This is because our current 7.0 node requirements are super low, which are:

Gathering > 4431
Perception >4220
Max GP > 840

(Legendary Nodes require at least 4480 Perception to access though. And bonuses would require at least 4907 Perception, 4754 Gathering or 930 GP)

We can achieve these levels of gathering and perception without melds at all using the new i690 white gear (left gear). So I'm actually still using pentamelded i620 Indagators accessories (right gear) myself. And I'm only melding GP on my new i690 white gear (+ piety/ tenacity / skill speed etc. to pentameld, just to increase spiritbonding rate).

Thanks! I had no idea that retainers used perception at all. I thought it was purely the gathering stat.

4965 perception allows 30 items to be gathered for the level 100 items.

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Originally Posted by Zenkii

4965 perception allows 30 items to be gathered for the level 100 items.

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Thanks!
4965 - 4924 = 41
Then I should make more chokers, and also consider overmelding 3 pieces of gear for my retainers with 1 extra Guile IX on each gear (+14 +14 +14 = 42)!