Please, increase drop rate the loot from world map

[VelKallor]

Three free in all.

By default, you can only hire two Retainers, but you can add up to 7 additional retainers (for a total of 9) from the Mog Station. The FFXIV Companion App also gives you an extra retainer (past that 9 for a total of 10) if upgraded to premium, alongside double Chocobo Saddlebag space.

[Tint]

Three free in all.

"if upgraded to premium"

Premium costs 5$ a month, that's not free.

[Gember]

Two options:

1. Have a combat retainer. If you don't have one yet, get them to level 10, and then just keep letting them do quick exploration until they level to max, or at the level they need to be for certain materials. That is the best way since they wouldn't need gear for quick exploration. This will take some time though. It depends how often you can check your retainers.

2. Market Board scouting. A lot of players crash the market boards all the time and some materials are so cheap that its not even worth the wait for a retainer or hunting the mobs for them. With DC travel, you have more options now days than before.

I don't really like the idea of more drops being available because we are already dealing with a lot bots at the moment. Even gathering got so bad with their rounds. I get your pain though. I had to do a lot of jumping around for leatherworker and that is why their hides are more expensive than a lot of other materials. I wish you luck.

[Avatre]

If you have a friend who is going to be AFK, or willing to sit AFK in the field you're trying to get monster drops from, join a party together, and they will have a chance to get the drops from each of your kills. Used to do this with a friend when we were first outfitting an old FC's house. Got tons of materials that way.

[PercibelTheren]

I think the worst for me was trying to make Chimerical Felt when I was trying to craft something. There are only very few chimeras in Azys Lla, their respawn timer is extremely long and the drop dare is painfully small.

[VelKallor]

Premium costs 5$ a month, that's not free.

Thats what I get for studying late and not reading closely enough.

I stand corrected and please pass the humble pie. Thank you Tint

[kaynide]

This is honestly (imo) a failing of the DoH/DoL system overall, and the Island Sanctuary.

For me there are two big problems:
1) we should be able to use items somewhat interchangeably or convert them around (eg claws, hides, etc), especially from Island Sanctuary, and
2) the devs really don't need to add components for the sake of having new components.

Example: Not counting Chocobo-Coloring-Food, we have 5 different apples in the game.
In the real world, I understand that certain apples are better than others in certain recipes, but there really isn't anything stopping you from making an apple pie with whatever apples you've got. In FFXIV, apple A makes juice, B makes a tart and C makes a strudel. Can't mix and match! Why not a dynamic system where all of them make apple juice, but the iLVL/effects are better with better ingredients?

Or, I dunno, add entirely new ingredients relevant to the expansion?
We've just visited the fantasy equivalent of "India", but there aren't any mangos, durian, pomegranate (despite there being a pomegranate fish...)



More to OP's topic- There really isn't a need for so many different claw/horn/hide/etc, and instead should just be a a generic grade 1-5 hide ("rough hide", "smooth hide", "fine hide", "flawless hide" or whatever); this means you can farm wherever/whenever- as long as you are killing level 90 mobs that have hides, you can get current top-grade hides.

Guildwars does something similar to this, and their crafting system feels pretty good- it's simple, but pretty robust.

[kaynide]

Thats what I get for studying late and not reading closely enough.

I stand corrected and please pass the humble pie. Thank you Tint

But to be fair, you have access to up to 16 retainers for no additional fee (assuming you want to do the legwork and/or pay for 3 months at a time).

The price for the standard edition for 180 days is the same as the per-month entry level (12.99 USD) This means you have up to 8 characters, each with retainers.

By the time you hit level 50, you can easily do 1-2 dungeons a week on that side character and trade the loot for venture tokens via GC; by 60 you can solo-speed run them. It takes less than a week casually to get a character here. You shouldn't ever need this many retainers, but the option is there.

To OP: The easiest thing to do is unlock fisher, get fisher to max level via Ocean Fishing and then just send them on daily 18 hour ventures to sell the allagan coins they get. That profit will easily pay for whatever you're having trouble finding in the wilds.

[Duskane]

you should see if any dungeon gear can desynth into the materials you are after
because unsyncing a dungeon could get you more than just trying to overworld farm

[Hasrat]

By the time you hit level 50, you can easily do 1-2 dungeons a week on that side character

I would like to unlock this skill where leveling up characters gives me more time in the day to play the game.