Fisher retainer worth it?

Been debating whether to swap my FSH retainer to another DoW/M or DoL, but figured I'd ask those who have FSH leveled if they feel it's worth it on their retainers. I have four at the moment.

Mine is pretty worthless. The only things she brings back are Mahi Mahi and catfish. I've gotten maybe two fat cats out of her.

I personally find my botanist retainer to be the more useless one.

I have a retainer for each disciple of hand and I usually only use fisher and miner... between grilled sweetfish to boost my healing accuracy to a8s and a7s levels by getting the salts and fish I can get the mats for seafood stew which fetch a pretty penny. Botanist is seldom ever used for me personally.

Fishing retainers were useful for obtaining flavor of the month minions to sell for millions of gil such as the Fat Cat and Gestahl. If you need certain Fishing mats, they can be useful if they are somewhat expensive on your server's market board.

I take it back, the one time she came in handy was when I needed silver sharks and hammerheads to make shark oil. Lots and lots of shark oil.

I'm keeping her as she is because I may yet need her...at some point...

I think it just matters whether or not you want seafood dish mats stocked and readily available mostly (or send straight to MB).

Fanged Clam, Blueclaw Shrimp, Rock Mussel, Rothlyt Oyster, Razor Clam, and the Blue Cloud Coral and Mogpom for INT/MND Grade 1 solvents.

For me the FSH retainer is still worth it, even though I confess FSH retainer isn't as valuable as it was in 2.x (too bad Pipira Pira & Coerthan Crabs can't be venture'd). I've considered switching the retainer to a different class a lot too, but haven't had pulled the trigger. The Exploration ventures seem to go very poorly for me too, but that may be RNG.

Another thing about FSH I like is I don't have to worry about crafting another O-Hand 3-star Luminous Fiber tool for him like my Miner/Botanist. That is appreciated /sigh

My 60 FSH retainer is my least used.

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Originally Posted by Zetsumei_Tsunarashi

I personally find my botanist retainer to be the more useless one.

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If they could bring back more than one bag of seeds per hour, a BTN retainer would be invaluable to any gardener. Seven hells, even when RNGesus is being a prick I can still net 6-8 of a targeted seed in an hour!

I believe a leveled FSH retainer can still bring back rare dyes. But I guess any retainer with sufficient iLv can do this. There's also fat cat...

I guess the reason to level FSH is so you don't have to fish. But in order to do that, you'll have to level a FSH retainer.

There are some useful fish out there. It's your call, TC, whether or not to level Fishing so you can get them yourself. Once you have leveled Fishing however, then the question changes. Do you want to spend the time fishing the useful things, or do you want to let your retainer get those useful things that it can get, so you can spend that time doing something else?

I have one but only to get me fish... Which isn't all that often.

Got 3 fat car and 1 gestahl out of mine plus one stack of each fish need for ALC solvant
And I also think that my Fisher got the best rng for random one hour mission
Because he is the one that give me the best item out of my 5 retainers

Funny things...
Whenever i send my mi'qote botanist and my aora Fisher both in 1 hour venture
The Fisher being back wood or fruit... The botanist give me fish

Suspicious...

I have a FSH and a BTN retainer. The FSH turns out more useful as I get the fish for Caviar enough to keep a stack in our FC chest and i can get some convenient fishes with him.... the BTN is meh besides getting Floss Silk. Atm I have the feel the gatherer retainers aren't really worth but changes may come... maybe.

My 60 FSH retainer(s) [well, two actually out of 8 retainers] are my most useful.
My 60 BOT retainer(s) [also two out of eight] are my most useless, constantly can't find what to have them bring back so i just send them on long ventures, already too much Birch Logs and Birch Saps and the other mats, I don't even really need.

I just send both of my FSH retainers to get Hinterlands Perch for me every venture cause my CUL's Desynthesis level is at 199.22 at time of this writing.
It's constant supply of Quickarm Materia IV or Allagan Gold Piece with the occasional Yellow Pigment or Fine Sand (the last two of course I don't care much for)
Not to forget the guaranteed Water Crystals, so even if you get fine sand, at least your water crystal supply will still go up.
After amassing enough Quickarm Materia IV, I usually just bring all of them to Mutamix and mutate all of them for a chance to get Grade V materias.
Managed to get (notable mentions) quite a few Competence IV's, and a couple of Quicktongue V, Competence V and Guerdon V from mass-mutamixing of Grade IV's.
Or, well, if you feel it's a waste to gamble for good materia by mutating 5 into 1, you could always sell those Quickarm Materia.

Long story short: FSH retainer is actually a hidden Grade IV (and if lucky through mutamix-ing, Grade V) materia farmer when combined with a CUL that decently levelled his/her desynthesis levels.