Just thought I'd bump this thread after I stumbled upon it when Googling about the crappy XIV Venture rewards 99% of the time, you would THINK that for having a high level (ilvl80+) retainer he'd bring back some more valuable than some skin or a chunk of meat, I get items of higher value from the quick adventures, this can't be right.

Quote Originally Posted by Adler View Post
They said that "quick" ventures have higher chance to get rare items than "field" ones. If you get tired from getting couerl meat then start using "quick" instead of "field" or just don't use ventures at all.
Yes but for most of us we can't be online every hour to collect the rewards and then re-send our retainers back out, so an 18-hour long venture in the time we sleep and work *should* yield higher rewards... but it doesn't, and it's BS.