Quote Originally Posted by Liam_Harper View Post
Neo-Ishgard is fairly unnecessary. As far as I know hunting retainers cap at a fairly low ilv. You could kit them out in dungeon gear, older tome gear, cheap Centurio (Sack of Nuts) gear, whichever is easiest. I'd lean towards Centurio gear myself.
If you dress a hunter retainer in low lvl 80 gear you get half the return as if you get him in HQ. Where the break point is, I don't know, but it's somewhere above absolute minimum lvl 80 gear.