18 hour ventures & lv 50 Retainers

[Isus]

I only send them on 18 hour venutres when I log out for the night, so I'm not too torn up about it. I do agree the "rewards" are meh...except when you get lucky. I've only gotten truly awesome stuff once..
I mostly use my retainers to gather crafting mats for me while I'm logged in and running dungeons/fates/ dailies anyway. I agree the high level gathering requirements are crazy - why would I equip my BTN with better gear than myself? silly.

[Ashkendor]

I only send them on 18 hour venutres when I log out for the night, so I'm not too torn up about it. I do agree the "rewards" are meh...except when you get lucky. I've only gotten truly awesome stuff once..
I mostly use my retainers to gather crafting mats for me while I'm logged in and running dungeons/fates/ dailies anyway. I agree the high level gathering requirements are crazy - why would I equip my BTN with better gear than myself? silly.

Same. My retainers go out and gather the stuff I never get around to gathering while I'm doing other stuff ingame.

It's actually making it pretty ridiculously easy to keep stuff on the market.

I always get crap from the 18 hour ventures, so I gave up on them for the most part.

[Ruddi]

Specially one of my retainers a paladin 80+ brings me in good stuff, like taffeta cloth, light steel plate, glazenut seeds I guess it could depend on their gear and how high average level they got and i plan on getting paladin and blm to 90 (work in progress)

I got 4 retainers now at 50 and it is like a lotto ticket every day so not a bad thing to add in game

I got crafted PLD ilvl 90 and my main is BLM building up with 100+ ilvl so it was relative easy to just give allagan gear to them as lucky I am.