Retainer ventures we need to talk.

[Nikoshae]

Here's one from a few days ago:

*level 18 retainer returns from a quick venture.*

"Hey, look what I brought back!"

*Garuda HM White Mage staff*

"...what."

... I am rather jealous ._.

[Santherelle]

Thats literally all I've gotten from my quick venture retainer this week. Kelp, sweet cream, and some kind of cheap fish.

My favorite week was the week all 3 retainers brought back only Couerl meat. I ended up with almost a full stack...

[RiceisNice]

How about we adjust fishing retainers instead? It's pretty damn stupid that out of everything they can get, only two items are used in actual crafting. The rest is literally junk foddler.

[Stormfur]

I wrote a limerick about this very issue: *ahem*...

420 the gathering number,
Of a retainer who couldn't be any dumber
An hour it takes
To scour the lakes
And bring back another sea cucumber.

[Arkann]

After 6 months (probably more) of sending my fisher on 18h ventures every single day, I FINALLY got a fat cat. 'bout damn time ! I got tired of emery and useless fish. My Arcanist is still level 54 and I haven't sent him on 2 token ventures yet, but before Heavensward he brought back a lot of dyes. Mostly green though (bleh).

[AlphaFox]

I think my Miquote retainer is making fun of me, she has brought me back 3 stepstools....

[Kadrothan]

I send mine out on quick ventures mostly and so far they have given me:
Fishing related stuff (apparently my retainers love fishing),
Allagan tin piece (got this one at least a couple dozen times with me going /facepalm),
Housing items (even had a mansion wall once and I was like O_o "Who's house did they steal this from?"),
Pre-50 green gear (No joke, most of it has been for casters. Makes me wonder what poor caster my PLD and MNK retainers have been beating up to "acquire" said gear.)
Then the rest is filled with a small mix of other items like normal dyes, crafter gear (my retainers probably extorting crafters on the side), and a rare item once in a great while.

I think my Miquote retainer is making fun of me, she has brought me back 3 stepstools....

Sorry, couldn't help but laugh pretty hard on that one. The odds of that happening 3 times in a row...

[Snugglebutt]

My fishing retainers still just bring back single HQ (ARR not HW) big game fish from 18 hour ventures and they both around lvl 55 currently, haven't tried using 1h quick ventures much since still lvling them. Occasionally I get back some non-tradable/non-MB sellable (tank/melee) gears for the wrong classes or I have out-leveled already so are pretty much useless junk I wont be using and can't sell on markets. My mining and botany retainers just bring back generic HQ items from 18 hour ventures atm but they only around lvls 30-40 currently. Other times it's just dyes and junk mostly they bring back though I did get 1 fat cat minion once, sometimes I get back ARR binding/non-tradeable materials which might serve a purpose in upgrading ARR gear sets though not HW sets but I think that is mostly due to not being lvl 60 on any yet.

[Aralyne]

Ah yes... I remember back in the days when my main retainer was low levelled, he'd occasionally come back with primal weapons (lost count of the number of scholar primal weapons he brought back - and wished he'd brought back drg stuff instead!). Nowadays though? At a base level 57 drg with ilvl 110+ gear, he comes back with cheap fish and kelp all the time. It's like the more levels he gained, the lazier he got >_>

[AlphaFox]

Sorry, couldn't help but laugh pretty hard on that one. The odds of that happening 3 times in a row...

Oh not in a row, just 3 times over the course of a month or so lol