Retainers New abilities!!

[Felis]

F: What about the additional features for retainers coming in patch 2.2?

Y: We will implement a fee based retainer service which we have been announcing since the previous FFXIV days. With that, we’re going to add new features aside from being able to store items, and currently preparing for it.

F: It will be a type of useful feature?

Y: It’ll will be a new play mechanic where you can dispatch. You decide on the retainers job and class, then pay a tip (tip/chip - as in form of payment, tokens) and choose the item you want to obtain. Then you dispatch the retainer. Once the retainer successfully obtains the items, they will gain experience points and gain levels, and will be able to wear different types of gears.

F: Retainers will be able to wear gears for adventurers?

Y: Yes. As the retainer gains higher level, he/she will be able to equip better gear, with that they will be able to bring back a much rarer items.

F: Will the items vary depending on the class/job role we assign to the retainer?

Y: If you want items that drops from monsters then set it to battle type class. If you want items that are obtainable by gathering class, it will be better to choose gather type class.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1913393

[Ulathskullsplitter]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1913393

So from reading that you have to pay your retainer to go gather for you. It better be dirt cheap or else it won't be worth it because almost everything on the market board already sells for practically nothing. Better off just buying stuff than paying your retainer to go get it.

[Wobble]

Reminds me a lot of this game with the retainer gathering ingredients.

[Cons]

So does this further the impact on the market-board with making items more readily accessible?

[Leowilde]

So does this further the impact on the market-board with making items more readily accessible?

I was thinking the same thing. For the most part it seems that only rare items dropped from treasure maps will yield gil on the market, and some occational other items that stack.
Since crafters are the only people who really benefit from gathereres, and the crafters often double with going gatherer as well, selling mats on the market isn't always beneficial. As much as I love the sound of this new feature and can see it being a lot of fun, I worry that it could hurt the economy even more...?

[Nayto]

As much as I love the sound of this new feature and can see it being a lot of fun, I worry that it could hurt the economy even more...?

As long as it doesn't SB materia for you, what's left of the economy is fine...

What if we send our Retainers out.... And they never returned!

*Gives Pentamelded Mailbreaker to retainer*

[NoloeTazier]

So does this further the impact on the market-board with making items more readily accessible?

It will. It gives people absolutely no reason to buy from the market if their 3 retainers can farm things like snurble tuft, flax, diremite web, electrum ore..etc. I don't think they'll be able to get unspoiled node items but that just means instead of farming those other items, your time can be invested in clusters/crawler cocoons/etc. Materia isn't exactly something people readily invest into because everyone knows Dungeon Gear > Crafted and it's not going to change, toss in ilvl requirements and it doesn't matter if your gryphonskin ring is penta-melded and ACTUALLY better than a garuda ring, if you don't meet the ilvl requirement you don't get in. People are already grinding the tomestones that the gear requires..and vanity reasons still won't produce much buying power.

[Nayto]

Materia isn't exactly something people readily invest into because everyone knows Dungeon Gear > Crafted

Yet despite this, people are still buying two star crafts and materia.

Lazy people will be lazy. Retainers will take time to gather mats, and it takes a good 2-3 stacks worth of mats to AFK SB a crafting set. I'm pretty sure people with the "I don't have time to wait for your sh*t" mentality will still buy mats. The only thing that'll maybe go down is Apkullu eggs.

[Wilan]

Yet despite this, people are still buying two star crafts and materia.

Lazy people will be lazy. Retainers will take time to gather mats, and it takes a good 2-3 stacks worth of mats to AFK SB a crafting set. I'm pretty sure people with the "I don't have time to wait for your sh*t" mentality will still buy mats. The only thing that'll maybe go down is Apkullu eggs.

This.
On a side note, I'm pretty sure that while retainers will be away (and maybe won't be able to be recalled) we won't be able to sell stuff on the market, maybe we won't even be able to access our retainer's inventory. This would mean we wouldn't just be able to send them away on a whim.

[Wobble]

So does this further the impact on the market-board with making items more readily accessible?

Most likely no. Considering they can only gather a set amount from what I'm hearing and knowing SE there will be a large cool down timer on reuse.