Why are my Retainers only returning with Coeurl Meat HQ???

Dev Team,

Seriously... there is no WAY you can convince me that this is working as intended. For the last ten days in a row (consecutively). BOTH my retainers have been returning from the 18 hour field ventures with ONLY coeurl meat HQ or Hippogryph skins HQ.

I repeat, my retainers have been returning with nothing other than allagan coins and skins/meat for the last ten days. This is just BS of the highest order.

Im bloody pissed off now and this is beyond ridiculous... there is absolutely no bloody freaking possible way that there is an element of randomness involved at this point. I absolutely hate both my time and resources being wasted on this type of rubbish rewards and I hate it now. Thoroughly.

Its bad enough that several of us endured the "fish" rewards from Quick ventures for the last couple months, but now its beyond worse... fix it guys... fix it.

I had that problem too so I just started sending them on different level ventures :/

http://oi51.tinypic.com/24zj56q.jpg

haha ive been running those ventures for months now and literally 95% of them have been exactly as you have described.

I have gotten the minute mindflayer 3 times taffeta cloth 6 times and light steel 5times in the last how many months has ventures been out..!?

the random element is that giant hidden dye with one face on it that says today we be kind and reward you something different.

the only thing that's good about those ventures is I get 5k a day in allagan pieces which pays for my teleport costs.

Coeurl Meat HQ worth 2 gil in my server's market, and it's all what i get from retainer

I too share this frustration but what I didn't see in this thread is the equipment ilevel (or gathering requirements if mine/bot). I spent thousands of gil equipping my 2 level 50 miners to get the gathering up to 383 and my other 2 retainers to ilevel 70 so they could run their respective xii level 17 hour missions and only come back with Coeurl meat. That is insane. I have a level 80 coat for my bard I spent a fortune on and in order to get a level 383 gathering number you have to meld all kinds of stuff to it and they only come back with junk. This has been a major disappointment. One thing if they were Ilevel 10 or no melded equip, but come on already. I get the RNG but this is silly.

Level XIV ventures almost always get me gold pieces and Hippo skins. lol

Yeah, same as above. Hippo Skins and coins with the occasional Taffeta and 1x Mindflayer. I got better rewards while I was leveling them! Pretty bad and not a real incentive to try an pimp out your retainers.....

Perhaps my post gave me some good luck, I logged in last night after work and my Miner retainer (out on a 17 hour level 12 mission) brought me back a Minecraft Minion. I'm a huge minion collector, have never even heard of this one. So I was pretty jacked about this.

Same thing with me. Mostly coeurel meat from my DoW retainer since ventures came out. My DoL retainer just brings me useless house pieces.

I've gotten a smn mog book and behemoth horn off quick ventures before

We can't have them bringing back rare items every time or nothing would be really rare.

Also I would prefer them to continually bring me the same junk versus a variety of junk which would quickly clog up storage. These items aren't worth much so there is no point in giving me 100 variations of 2 gil items to sort and vendor.

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Originally Posted by Ramesses

Dev Team,

Seriously... there is no WAY you can convince me that this is working as intended. For the last ten days in a row (consecutively). BOTH my retainers have been returning from the 18 hour field ventures with ONLY coeurl meat HQ or Hippogryph skins HQ.

I repeat, my retainers have been returning with nothing other than allagan coins and skins/meat for the last ten days. This is just BS of the highest order.

Im bloody pissed off now and this is beyond ridiculous... there is absolutely no bloody freaking possible way that there is an element of randomness involved at this point. I absolutely hate both my time and resources being wasted on this type of rubbish rewards and I hate it now. Thoroughly.

Its bad enough that several of us endured the "fish" rewards from Quick ventures for the last couple months, but now its beyond worse... fix it guys... fix it.

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Working as intented: blame the RNG to be so 'accurate' ;)

The same here, only one taffeta cloth in 1 month of daily ventures, no minion, just meat and skin...

They said that "quick" ventures have higher chance to get rare items than "field" ones. If you get tired from getting couerl meat then start using "quick" instead of "field" or just don't use ventures at all.

Just thought I'd bump this thread after I stumbled upon it when Googling about the crappy XIV Venture rewards 99% of the time, you would THINK that for having a high level (ilvl80+) retainer he'd bring back some more valuable than some skin or a chunk of meat, I get items of higher value from the quick adventures, this can't be right.

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Originally Posted by Adler

They said that "quick" ventures have higher chance to get rare items than "field" ones. If you get tired from getting couerl meat then start using "quick" instead of "field" or just don't use ventures at all.

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Yes but for most of us we can't be online every hour to collect the rewards and then re-send our retainers back out, so an 18-hour long venture in the time we sleep and work *should* yield higher rewards... but it doesn't, and it's BS.

I send my retainers out ONLY on quick ventures, no point in the 18 hour one, that just nets more xp. And why do we care if our retainers get xp to level, when they bring back RNG fish/equip during quick ventures regardless of level? My i50 PLD brings back the same things as my i38 DRG.

Been running the new exploration venture since day 1 of 2.3, I've only seen Couerl and Hippo skins. I think i'll fall off my chair if I get something decent, it's that ridiculous.

Well, to be honest, I think sending your retainers on higher level ventures should atleast give you something a Quick Exploration/lower Field Exploration can't. It could still be some items that aren't worth alot, but atleast make it so that it's unique to 50+.. RNG or not, unfair remains unfair.

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Originally Posted by Ramesses

Dev Team,
fix it guys... fix it.

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Unsub... fixed!

Quit complaining plenty other things to do.

4 floss silks and 2 minecraft minions for me so im happy lol

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Originally Posted by mpd49

Perhaps my post gave me some good luck, I logged in last night after work and my Miner retainer (out on a 17 hour level 12 mission) brought me back a Minecraft Minion. I'm a huge minion collector, have never even heard of this one. So I was pretty jacked about this.

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ooooh thanks. I wondered about this. I guess I really need to meld my miner, botanist, and fsher retainers out more to get fancy rewards.

floss silk and minecraft minion again 2day LOL

Two walls today. A Riviera Mansion wall and a Riviera House wall. Both are from Quick ventures

I also find this quite odd. On previous patch, it wasn't hard to get a mindflayer. But now? ever since patch 2.3, there's not even a single minion dropped. And worse of all, SE actually upped the RNG for mindflayer drops in the latest patch notes. Ever since 2.1, SE been adding more and more of RNG-fest, even though we hated it so much even back in 1.0. :?

My retainer brought me back this little thing about 20 minutes ago. I was a bit surprised...

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f...014_225727.png

Quick ventures get you "random" stuff apparantly, and is your best bet if you're actively playing for a while. Just drop by every hour and see what they got!
The field ventures....... they aren't so great.. Steady EXP for your retainer while you're gone, but the reward can be the same thing for five+ levels. And yah, it makes no sense why they bring back 2 HQ items after 18 hours. EIGHTEEN HOURS, THAT'S ALL YOU FOUND?!

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Originally Posted by Sei-Ryu

My retainer brought me back this little thing about 20 minutes ago. I was a bit surprised...

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f...014_225727.png

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O.O OMG now I'm hoping to get one of those rare primal ex ponies from my retainers!!!