What's the point of fishing retainers now?

Just got mine to lvl 60, but only two of all the fishes they can get have any practical use in crafting. Everything else is generic fish that's only used in desyn foddler.

2.0, the retainer was at least capable of bringing practical fish that had applications, like hammerheads.

Wow that's awful! Have you tried doing the 18 hour ventures and see if they bring you something useful there?

Hq silver soviet guns for the foragers rod back in 2.0

gestahl from waterside explorations

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Originally Posted by ServerCollaps

gestahl from waterside explorations

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Confirmed fishing retainer brought one back from level 55 Exploration venture about a week ago. They go for 6mil on my server, which is a JP realm which means its probably 8-10mil on a NA legacy server

Yeah, I've been trying to get the minion from mine. She usually brings me HQ green fish though, which isn't bad. It's stuff that sells well or helps my Cul desynth, since I can't desynth Heavensward fish yet.

So most of the retainer fish has no use in crafting at all? (yet)

What do they yield during desynthesis?

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Originally Posted by Catwho

What do they yield during desynthesis?

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Sands. Ones of the fine variation might I add. They're generic fiddler fish, not special catches

The selection of 51+ fishing ventures is baffling.

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gestahl from waterside explorations

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Thanks for the info :), my fisher retainer hasn't given me anything other than fish or another Fat Cat. I will keep sending her out and hopefully I can get the little puppy :D!

Mining and botanist retainers are also of lesser importance, because too many important crafting items are "hidden" or from unspoiled nodes. Tea leaves, mistletoe, titanium and adamantite. Of the three basic Heavensward metals, the common ore for two of them are unobtainable by retainers, and both mythrite ingots and hardsilver ingots are further locked behind hidden materials.

Meanwhile my battlecrafter needs to haul back as much skin, crawler cocoons, chimera felt, scales, saliva, and dragonblood as possible. Definitely an imbalance in retainer ventures at the moment.