Retainer Gathering (Botany)

[MariusAndre]

Okay, so my retainer is a Botanist. The only thing she will ever be doing as a Botanist, is to farm Wind Shards (Lvl 1).
Does her level at all effect how many she gathers? Say if you have two Botanist retainers, one at level 30, and one at level 50. You send them both out to farm Wind Shards (Lvl 1) for an hour. Will the level 50 farm more wind shards than the lvl 30?
Thank you.

[Woggers]

Yes level effects the speed and I believe the amount that they come back with

[Espritduo]

The most shards they will ever bring back is 60, which you can reach with just a level 10-15-ish retainer with level 10-15-ish gear. I use my three alts' retainers to farm shards for me, and I certainly can't be arsed to level and gear all 12 of them up, so I just left them in level 10-15 gear and it was enough to hit the 60 shards/hour mark.

[BLaCKnBLu3B3RRY]

my retainer is level 50. and only brings back 10 shards. how to get more shards per venture??? please share ^_^

[MariusAndre]

Are you using the botany venture, specifically for the shard you want?

[MariusAndre]

Managed to get it down to 40 minutes. Anyone know if it's possible to lower that time more?

[Estellios]

That's the lowest it will go.

[BLaCKnBLu3B3RRY]

i still wouldn't mind knowing how yall doing this. my BTN retainer is lv50. and only brings back 10 shards per 50minutes. seriously... what am i doing wrong? some help please lol :/

[Lissandra]

i still wouldn't mind knowing how yall doing this. my BTN retainer is lv50. and only brings back 10 shards per 50minutes. seriously... what am i doing wrong? some help please lol :/

Have you upgraded their gear? That is the only logical explanation for why you're getting that amount.

[BLaCKnBLu3B3RRY]

Have you upgraded their gear? That is the only logical explanation for why you're getting that amount.

they have what ever gear my character used to have. the IL55 stuffs and the blue main hand from the quest. the gathering is high enough for highest exploration venture.