Why (my) retainers r so lazy?

[BobbinT]

It's been like a very long time since I use their services, And it filled me with joy when they can finally be more useful than just keeping our stuff. But after some time, this has became a question on it's own.

Why every time I send them to 18 hours venture, they only bring back like very small percentage of effort amount I can do in 18 hours?

For example, my miner keeps bringing me like 3 darksteel ores / gold ores each time. Now, in 18 hours, there should be 18 unyield node pops. And each farm I did on every pop will get me maximum (or should I say general acquirement) of 18 ores. Times that to 18 hours and you get 324 ores you can get. That's like more than 100 times than my retainers brings back to me.

And let's not speak of my DoW/DoM retainer which only brings (useless) 3 coeurl meat/skin. In 18 hours straight, I bet I can farm like thousands of it. lol

The venture coins are not quite cheap either. I must slave away myself farming GC seals, hunt seals, or do beastmen dailies to get them in order to pay retainers for their services.

And worse of all, they still hasn't bring me those minions in which their rarity becoming more obnoxious.

So... here's a question: are they still worth to pay for service? I believe I can earn way more without using their services, excluding those rarity stuff they "rarely" would bring which may or may not important to some people.

What do you think? Think retainers can and should bring more than our own effort, no? lol