Outdoor retainers? For what purpose?

[Noshpan]

Free Company uses:

Free Company Retainer
As a leader of a FC I dedicate one of my retainers strictly for FC items that we would sell for FC bank. (Makes it easier to manage where the gil goes when items sell) This is the first time that all members are actually able to view and track using the history what the FC is selling to make gil.

Grocery Store
Even though a player can add wishlist of what food they want on market board, we have a dedicated retainer for most popular foods & potions... basically all consumables that members can grab right outside the house before their next adventure and knowing the gil will be going to a FC member or even better, the in FC bank.

That is a rather interesting idea...

[Mini_Me]

I outfitted my outdoor retainer in the coerul bikini, if for no other reason then eye candy. One thing is bugging me though... her shoes and gloves will not remove, despite not having anything at all equipped except a main hand a top and a bottom. Anyone else can confirm that hands and feet are not removable, visually?

[Mizore_Canaan]

I outfitted my outdoor retainer in the coerul bikini, if for no other reason then eye candy. One thing is bugging me though... her shoes and gloves will not remove, despite not having anything at all equipped except a main hand a top and a bottom. Anyone else can confirm that hands and feet are not removable, visually?

Emperors new shoes (boots?) and gloves will do that for ya

[Cabalabob]

My FC has a shop that uses our company chest, we sell materia for half MB price to members. We were very excited for this retainer feature as we thought it meant we could move our shop to our retainers and not have to deal with going to the company chest to deal with sales ourselves. Then we found out that retainers still sold stuff on the MB while in the garden which killed that idea and made it completely pointless, needless to say we were very disappointed.

[Bunsen]

I had really hoped that someone at SE had thought this through and that they could be used as a FC Store but unfortunately since everything you list is also on the gets placed on the MB you cannot offer FC discounts without everything getting snatched up in .001 seconds and relisted at a higher price. It's just a pointless fluff item like a minion or chocobo barding. It really serves absolutely zero purpose in the game.

I can honestly see this coming "please look forward to it" My personal belief is that this is SE working towards that goal of an internal FC market where members can benefit from discounted items.. Currently we have to resort with trading to give our members those discounts which is very inconvenient.

[Hyunckel]

I want them to make it possible to have your retainer out to battle with you. They should scale to your level, though. This could really help a lot of newer people, or older members that just want to take it easy with leveling. These days before you know it you're lvl50 without even trying, cause of the leves and fates.

There was something similar in SWTOR where you had a "pet" character following you and healing you (and dpsing) and you could control his actions with a pet hotbar. You would also send him on "ventures" too to gather crafting materials...