Lazy retainers

[Nuinn]

My retainer likes to slap me in the face with house walls, roofs, furniture.... The sadist loooOOOooves putting more salt on my wound. Bring me plot permit for a change goddamnit!!!

They also seem to have an very obscene fetish for fish >.>

[Ignnis]

Mine keeps bringing me back furniture and I'm too poor to afford housing, I think he's mocking me...

I can just imagine my retainer running around peoples personal housing stealing their wardrobes, floor tiles and desks.

[Garlyle]

Ah, does that also apply to quick ventures or only the 18h ones? Cause I'm only sending them on quick ventures, maybe that's where the problem lies.

To be fair, higher level gear is supposed to lean - not force, just lean - the random items towards more valuable from Quick Ventures.

However, Quick Ventures are still really, really random. You can get almost anything in the game - high level unique pieces of gear you won't see, for instance, like Relics or High Allagan - but you can see the furnishing material drop from Turn 9 for instance*. ...Or Malm Kelp.

* (This is the most valuable thing I've heard of having been brought back by Quick Ventures, and to my knowledge goes for 2 million plus on most servers)

Higher gear does allow you to do more Hunting/Gathering ventures and the 18h Field Exploratoins, however, and the higher tiers of that provide better results. More importantly they provided consistent results, as they're either fixed items or from extremely small pools of possible items.

[Eye_Gore]

From another thread about what retainers bring back. Atleast we know now.

[Kaelah]

My poorly geared BTN retainer has brought me an Inferno Horn on a quick venture before. I think it's mostly luck/RNG. But the higher gear does make them able to bring back better items supposedly.

[Warlyx]

All mine brings me back from lv40 exploration is Apkallu Down.. not much "exploring" going on there, he's hanging out at the beach then killing an Apkallu at the last minute to make it look like he was busy lol

loled irl

[LineageRazor]

Better gear improves the chances of getting something good from Quick Ventures - but your odds of actually seeing anything awesome are still pretty darned low. I don't think I've even come close to breaking even on what it cost to deck out my DoL retainers.

[LordNickage]

All mine ever gets me is an ink and quill.
I seriously wonder if she is robbing shops in Ul'dah or something.

[Odd]

My 2 DoL retainers are wearing almost BiS (their own, i have my own BiS set), and have been since about a month after retainer ventures came out. So over 6 months. I just finally got the Tiny Tapir minion yesterday.

RNG

[MilesSaintboroguh]

My retainers on quick ventures always get me $#*()@ fish, despite them not being a fisher. At other times, they can get me ilvl70 gear.