Question about lv 50 Gathering Retainer

[FJerome]

Thanks for all the info, Airget.

What's the shard situation like? I know a lot of us are hoping they'll be able to gather more of them at higher levels.

[Jinko]

Hmm that seems okish to me, no point making it as good as being able to gather it yourself.

The only downside to it is that you can't be guaranteed what you are gathering on those 18 hour explorations, I would much rather have the option to choose what I want.

[TomTom1968]

How .. how did you get your retainer that high in level already?

When you know you will be playing for several hours, the regular ventures (1 coin) are best for quick levelling. You can get good EXP for the quick venture too but it's a kind of a lottery and more of a matter of luck because the retainer can also come home with a single NQ fish including a low EXP reward. The long ventures (18 hours) are only fine if you are not playing. So let's say your last action in the evening before logging off is to send away the retainer and next evening after work you come back to get your EXP. But if I send my retainer 5 times to a 1 coin venture, the EXP reward is already higher in total compared to an 18 hour venture. So use the ventures with different approaches to max your benefits.

[shoki]

My lvl50 retainers brought me with a #13venture (18h)
Battleclass: Saurian Skin (500myth points)
Miner: Tawny Latex (150 myth points)
the other 2 (fisher and botanist) brought nothing special. Seems like there are some fine things

[Kyana]

Nice info here.

What about high level fishing?
Someone can confirm if and how many "rare" fish a retainer can bring back?
Like Silver Shark, Fullmoon Sardine, Razor Clam,..?

Mine are MNK and MIN lvl39 now.
Equipment level is high enough for the current items (~ilvl20 MNK and ~120 gathering for MIN)
So far the only "good" thing I got from exploration were ilvl55 botanist legs from my very first try.
The rest were just some random HQ materials (crap) and some Allagan Bronze Pieces (6-10).
Quick exploration didn't give anything special either.

[Kirren]

Nice info here.

What about high level fishing?
Someone can confirm if and how many "rare" fish a retainer can bring back?
Like Silver Shark, Fullmoon Sardine, Razor Clam,..?

Mine are MNK and MIN lvl39 now.
Equipment level is high enough for the current items (~ilvl20 MNK and ~120 gathering for MIN)
So far the only "good" thing I got from exploration were ilvl55 botanist legs from my very first try.
The rest were just some random HQ materials (crap) and some Allagan Bronze Pieces (6-10).
Quick exploration didn't give anything special either.

41 Silver sharks thats as high as my fishing retainer is but yes fullmoon sardine's were like 34 ish level razor clams 20

[Alphadeus]

Nice info here.

What about high level fishing?
Someone can confirm if and how many "rare" fish a retainer can bring back?
Like Silver Shark, Fullmoon Sardine, Razor Clam,..?

I posted this in another thread:
46-50 is just Northern Pike (46) & Cloud Cutter (48)
41-45 is Silver Shark (41), Raincaller (43), Blacklip Oyster (44)
36-40 is Whitelip Oyster (36), Velodyna Carp (38), Red Coral (40)
31-35 is Indigo Herring (31), Ash Tuna (32), Fullmoon Sardine (34)

As far as quantities: 3 Silver sharks, 7 Razor Clams, 7 Fullmoon Sardines. If you want the rest, let me know ^^ I think I'm limited in how many characters I can put in one post.

[Orophin]

Seems like the only realistic way to get to 383 gathering is to get the new tool. I melded everything but the crafted lv48 hatchet and the militia offhand with the max amount of +gathering and best I can get up to is 355.

[Mcshiggs]

Seems like the only realistic way to get to 383 gathering is to get the new tool. I melded everything but the crafted lv48 hatchet and the militia offhand with the max amount of +gathering and best I can get up to is 355.

Yup, since you can't make your retainers eat gathering food, you need to get them one of those nifty new tools, it takes 308 gathering for a fishing retainer since they don't have the off hand tool.