Question about lv 50 Gathering Retainer

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As it stands now the rewards are a bit lackluster, I"ve currently completed 2 Botanist and 1 DOW high tier exploration and have recieved the following
8 allagan silver pieces
3 crawler cocoon HQ
3 Dzmeal tomatoes HQ
5 hippogryph skins HQ

Which is a bit dissapointing considering it's an 18hr wait between.

Given the Gather skill needed and the fact one could easily obtain a guaranteed HQ crawler cocoon with ease in a short amount of time I'm surprised they made the rewards as low as they did.

For now though I"m keeping my botanist on exploration and moving DoW back to quick ventures since it doesn't appear like a good variety of loot will come from those unless I'm proven wrong through Botanist.

(With the 18hr wait period though considering that a 1hr grants 5 at required gathering skill it would be nice if there was a better mathematical formula where since the gatherer is going to be out for 18hrs couldn't they at least bring back 54(3 per hr) of the rare item that's a mix between NQ and HQ rather than just a low amount of HQ.)

Ah as for getting retainers that high, once you hit 40, doing quick ventures and gaining a rare item like the warwolf mask grants about 250k xp where during that pace you get about 50k a regular 1hr venture. So if you get lucky you can xp a lot faster by scoring big in quick ventures.