Oh, so FFXIV is pay-to-win? That's... stupid.

[Zorlinta]

Easily get some skins yourself? I take it you havent farmed chimera manes then.

Chimera manes are get much easier through desynth Hundred Fin. Around 12% of get one, and can be hq, using proper bait around 98% chance to get that fish, in 1 hour irl is a lot.

So if you knew how to get more efficiently an item you really not need the retainer do the work.

[Aeyis]

Chimera manes are get much easier through desynth Hundred Fin. Around 12% of get one, and can be hq, using proper bait around 98% chance to get that fish, in 1 hour irl is a lot.

So if you knew how to get more efficiently an item you really not need the retainer do the work.

You call having a fisher at 60 and culi desynth at high level efficiently? Well, thats an odd way of looking at it.
Very few people have fishing at max. Even less people have culi desynth.

On the other hand, getting 10 manes per hour when all it takes is a few clicks (you dont even need to be playing, you could do this while busy with other things), is quite efficient. These can be HQ as well, up to 100% of the 10 collected per hour.

I have currently got 300 manes in my inventory, 100 of which HQ; all of which collected by my retainer over the course of a few days. No grinding, no fishing, no desynthing required.