Why are fighting Retainers bringing back fish?

I could understand if it was something that dropped from a monster or a dungeon, but why is my i90 THM suddenly unequipping all his gear and switching to FSH?
I understand wanting to give us "trash" items but can we atleast make this make sense?
Only FSH retainers should be bringing back fish.

hes probably just stealing it

He used his ventures to go out and get drunk. On the way back he dug through the trash to bring you your present.

I always thought the same thing... my NPC has brought me back so many different fish its... well it is a Miqo so...

Yeah! Fishers should get fish, botanists should get plants, miners should get ore, and fighters should get materials that drop from enemies, like leather and meat.

This last patch completely screwed up chances at getting rare items, or anything non fish for that matter. My retainers are i80, and I don't get anything worth more than 6 Gil now...

I think it's just a troll from the devlopment team, they put fished everywhere to troll us.
I dont see any other good explaination of this.

8/10 I'm getting fish or near worthless housing items, so basically my i106 LNC retainer is just running around thieving from peoples houses and stealing from Fishers... at his ilvl he should be clearing the entire first coil in the hour he's given... but no I just get crap.

Quick Explorations are more a game of chance... but venture tokens are not to be wasted... so let your retainers farm something of your choosing?!

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Originally Posted by HakuroDK

Yeah! Fishers should get fish, botanists should get plants, miners should get ore, and fighters should get materials that drop from enemies, like leather and meat.

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They do, just choose woodland exploration etc...

Quick ventures are just a rng game for those who want some thrill

Yea for some reason my 2 DoW Retainers bring me Fish, while my Miner and Botanist were bringing me primal weapons and darklight gear... I changed one of my DoW to Fisher and just got her to 50 last night in hopes of a Fat Cat, fingers crossed, but I get the feeling i will get more fish.

Well, kinda a bump but, outside of the 800 fish my Retainer has brought back to me in the last few quick ventures (srsly is this shit broken?), today they brought me back something different! and they got 200k Exp!

A Fishing Lure!

VARIETY!

For explanation, please see the following:

http://www.xivnomnom.com/comic/quick-exploitation/

My fighter retainer gave me non-grilled fish and grilled fish. Are they secretly leveling fishing and culinarian...?

My Miner brought me back Infantry Gloves... and my Level 50 ACN still brings me Fish and crap furniture lol.

However, on a Highland Exploration that got my retainer ~49, she brought me a Gyashl Ring... so thats nice.

I've gotten SO MUCH coeurl meat and fur from my retainers that I think coeurls are now an endangered species. Then again there's the occassional primal HM weapon they give >.>
*tiptoes away.

My retainers are still robbing people's personal and FC houses along with randomly bringing back fish, extremely rarely (like once a month or more) they'll bring back something different. I have a Miner, Botanist, Fisher and an Archer, sadly, my Miner and Botanist bring back fish, my Fisher brings back primal weapons and my Archer keeps bringing back housing parts (roofs, doors, windows, walls) and random furniture, but mostly roofs and doors.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVS1UfCfxlU

^ How my Monk retainer acquires his fish.

Your retainer was out trying to defeat a monster, but realized the task at hand was too great. However, his eyes caught a glimpse of the beast's lunch. Surely if a beast so powerful felt such a fish could serve as lunch, it might be of use for other creatures as well.

thankyou SE for making fishing retainers useful again. dat fatcat.

My fighter-based retainers (well, atleast one of them) often brought back furniture the most (I had a million maps of Eorzea for some reason).
I'm fairly sure they're just going and either:

A.) Looting some FC's house (in regards to the furniture)
B.) Bullying a fishing retainer out of their fish
C.) Didn't feel like working so they set up a pole and took a nap
D.) Went to an aquarium and now have express interest in all fish
E.) There's a high % of fish items in the game and therefore the roll of the dice has a higher chance of landing on one.
F.) The devs have a sick sense of humor

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Originally Posted by balanced123

I could understand if it was something that dropped from a monster or a dungeon, but why is my i90 THM suddenly unequipping all his gear and switching to FSH?
I understand wanting to give us "trash" items but can we atleast make this make sense?
Only FSH retainers should be bringing back fish.

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I thought it was obvious? Clearly our retainers are lounging on the beach up until two minutes before they're due back. They have an OH CRAP moment, grab the first thing they see... usually seaweed or a fish, and cheerfully bring it to you! :D