Suggestion:Retainers Spirit bonding

[Slowburn]

Please consider having the retainers able to Spirit bond their gear when we send them on ventures. Obviously the rate shouldn't be really fast but I think it could help drive down the prices of material to a more manageable level.

[ChameleonMS]

Please consider having the retainers able to Spirit bond their gear when we send them on ventures. Obviously the rate shouldn't be really fast but I think it could help drive down the prices of material to a more manageable level.

I have always just hated the fact that the retainer spirit bonds 1% and thus makes the item completely useless, once s/he no longer needs it.
I would be just as happy to see the spirit bond for retainer completely removed.

I like idea and the retainer fully spirit bonding effect should obey the same rules venture levels as player iLVL relative to venture type.
Hunting / Gathering and Quick Exploration (~1hr) operations: 0.5% max
Full Exploration (18hr): 5%

This way, no matter which way you cut, your retainer is going to take days to spirit bond anything.
And, if you are constantly sending your retainer to gather/hunt low level stuff, then you will get no exp at the iLVL needed for the spirit bond effect.

[Urthdigger]

Yes please. There's currently only 1 SB camp, so it would be good to have more ways to obtain materia.

[Eggnook24]

Reason
/Bump

[Zetsubou]

Yes please. There's currently only 1 SB camp, so it would be good to have more ways to obtain materia.

I absolutely think that as well.
Given that people are willing to camp in the same position for hours to spirit bound gear, I think its a great idea that would help also in increasing the use of many areas that is currently unpopulated due no use for them other than completing a quest or fate, such as Beastmen camps, if they optimized these area in a such way that is similar to the Urth's Gift to be used as spirit bounding it would help in using many camps for these purposes and more.

[Urthdigger]

Being able to SB in dungeons would also help, though that's more a community than a game issue.

[Lollie]

There are actually 4 sb camps, just only one well known one. I agree retainers should generate sb, excluding quick ventures.

[ruskie]

I'd say all ventures should generate sb... quick would be +1, field would be +10 or +15 maybe and hunting/gathering would be +0.5(often not a full hour and you are getting mats from it). Note let's call them ratios... So quick is 1:10:0.5 something like that seems to be decent..

[Xystic]

There are actually 4 sb camps, just only one well known one. I agree retainers should generate sb, excluding quick ventures.

Yep there are indeed several more. Most people don't know about them though =)