New player First question :-)

[karateorangutang]

If you continue down the storyline you will get access to "retainers". They are basically a hireable NPC. They give you access to larger inventory space and also the ability to sell items on the marketboard.

[Nafka]

Thanks, I saw where you get retainers but had no idea that is what they where used for

[Conradus]

Thanks, I saw where you get retainers but had no idea that is what they where used for

Retainers serve multiple purposes. They are your bank; each one comes with 175 inventory slots. They enable you to put things up for sale on the player market (if you wondered where the stuff for sale on the Market Board comes from, those are other people's retainers). Each retainer comes with 20 slots for selling items. Once you've hired retainers, you'll get a side quest to unlock ventures, which are a way to dispatch retainers to get loot for you. You'll assign the retainer a combat or gathering class and equip it appropriately. It can then be levelled up through ventures to get you better loot. To send a retainer on a venture, you'll have to pay it in "Ventures", which are an inventory-stored currency that you can get from various quests or purchase for company seals at your Grand Company store (you'll join one of the three Grand Companies a little further down the storyline). The venture will take a certain amount of real time (depending on what kind of venture you sent the retainer on) and must be manually collected when it's done. The retainer remains completely available for its other functions while on a venture.

You're allowed two retainers; they cost you nothing except for paying for ventures. You can also purchase an allowance for up to two more retainers by incurring an additional charge of $2/month per additional retainer at the Mog Stations. You hire them by talking to the Retainer Vocates at the main merchant areas in the three main cities; you'll need to log on again to get it to recognize you've purchased addional retainer allowances at the Mog Stations.