Retainer Venture?

[Borland]

Level 12 retainer of mine can now do ventures to obtain shards in 50 minutes instead of an hour for the 30 shards. Amount of shards seemed to change with gear, and guessing level affected the time it takes. Should be funky if at level 50 with proper mining gear if the venture length goes down to 10 minutes if the shard amount also increases as gathering/perception go up, could mean we'll be able to really use retainers for farming up shards for us.

[Zaraaraz]

Not sure if this was posted anywhere yet, but I wanted to add something here.

I sent out 2 retainers on exploration. One Archer and one Arcanist. I noticed my Archer retainer can get a maximum level of 50 and my Arcanist Retainer a level 21 at maximum.

Now, I have leveled my Bard to level 50 and my Arcanist to 26. However, my Arcanist currently has iLevel 21. So the maximum level a retainer can have seems to be the iLevel of what you have of the corresponding class on your own character. With a maximum of 50.

Not sure how the loot works, but the leveling seems clear.

[HEC]

Yeah - it seems that while your corresponding class is bellow 50 the retainer's max lavel is capped at your level -5 ...

[mbncd]

Yeah - it seems that while your corresponding class is bellow 50 the retainer's max lavel is capped at your level -5 ...

I'm curious if your retainer still gains experience while capped though. Say I was level 10 and my retainer was 5 and I sent it on a whole bunch of ventures without levelling myself up at all; If I levelled up the next day would the retainer level too (or be closer to levelling)? Unlikely but maybe.

[Crankysorc]

Just had my level 13 mining retainer bring me back a HQ offhand for miner, which I'm in the middle of leveling so she won't catch up.

[Espritduo]

o_O; These rewards seem almost too good to be true. An HQ Militia Sledgehammer....from a quick exploration...on a level 13 retainer? What on earth do level 50's bring back? High Allagan Blades?

[mbncd]

o_O; These rewards seem almost too good to be true. An HQ Militia Sledgehammer....from a quick exploration...on a level 13 retainer? What on earth do level 50's bring back? High Allagan Blades?

I think it's more random than that. There's a lower chance retainers will bring back fancy things at lower levels but anyone who's faced the RNG (regardless of winning or losing) knows that that doesn't mean a lot. I do however think some photoshopping is getting around too though, with a low level retainer supposedly bringing back 2 primal weapons and the like. I doubt they'll be game breaking but people only seem to comment about the big stuff so it gives an impression of a higher ratio than there really is too.


Edit: Aside from housing stuff, I've gotten an electrum earing and a whole bunch of single fish to NPC and other junk. (And yes I burnt through way too many tokens on that.)

[SolusekRo]

Where do I gain the ability to send my retainer out?

[mbncd]

Where do I gain the ability to send my retainer out?

Via a low level quest in Limsa (possibly other cities too, not sure). Sorry, I can't remember where or what it was called.

[HEC]

Where do I gain the ability to send my retainer out?

In each city there is a lvl 15 quest to unlock it.