Retainers New abilities!!

[Wobble]

Reminds me a lot of this game with the retainer gathering ingredients.

[Cons]

So does this further the impact on the market-board with making items more readily accessible?

[Leowilde]

So does this further the impact on the market-board with making items more readily accessible?

I was thinking the same thing. For the most part it seems that only rare items dropped from treasure maps will yield gil on the market, and some occational other items that stack.
Since crafters are the only people who really benefit from gathereres, and the crafters often double with going gatherer as well, selling mats on the market isn't always beneficial. As much as I love the sound of this new feature and can see it being a lot of fun, I worry that it could hurt the economy even more...?

[HumsterMKX]

I was thinking along the lines....

What if we send our Retainers out.... And they never returned!

[Nayto]

As much as I love the sound of this new feature and can see it being a lot of fun, I worry that it could hurt the economy even more...?

As long as it doesn't SB materia for you, what's left of the economy is fine...

What if we send our Retainers out.... And they never returned!

*Gives Pentamelded Mailbreaker to retainer*

[Wilan]

Retainer rights have gone a long way since the dark old days where hundreds of thousands of them were ammassed in the same, dark, unhealthy market ward, forced to work day and night with less than 1 square meter of personal place, with complete disregard for hygiene and psychological balance.

Some of them even forgot what the sky looked like.

[Shenon]

Thats sort of...no,its pretty much the same System which was implemented in SWTOR. Your Companions could fight with you and gather Mats or Craft Items/Armor/Weapons etc. (each Companion could learn only one Craft or Gathering Job though). Was pretty neat to be honest.

[NoloeTazier]

So does this further the impact on the market-board with making items more readily accessible?

It will. It gives people absolutely no reason to buy from the market if their 3 retainers can farm things like snurble tuft, flax, diremite web, electrum ore..etc. I don't think they'll be able to get unspoiled node items but that just means instead of farming those other items, your time can be invested in clusters/crawler cocoons/etc. Materia isn't exactly something people readily invest into because everyone knows Dungeon Gear > Crafted and it's not going to change, toss in ilvl requirements and it doesn't matter if your gryphonskin ring is penta-melded and ACTUALLY better than a garuda ring, if you don't meet the ilvl requirement you don't get in. People are already grinding the tomestones that the gear requires..and vanity reasons still won't produce much buying power.

[Nayto]

Materia isn't exactly something people readily invest into because everyone knows Dungeon Gear > Crafted

Yet despite this, people are still buying two star crafts and materia.

Lazy people will be lazy. Retainers will take time to gather mats, and it takes a good 2-3 stacks worth of mats to AFK SB a crafting set. I'm pretty sure people with the "I don't have time to wait for your sh*t" mentality will still buy mats. The only thing that'll maybe go down is Apkullu eggs.

[Xieveral]

Depending on the fee and how much a retainer returns with, it might be more cost efficient to stick with the market boards and gathering items yourself.