Mining and botanist retainers are also of lesser importance, because too many important crafting items are "hidden" or from unspoiled nodes. Tea leaves, mistletoe, titanium and adamantite. Of the three basic Heavensward metals, the common ore for two of them are unobtainable by retainers, and both mythrite ingots and hardsilver ingots are further locked behind hidden materials.

Meanwhile my battlecrafter needs to haul back as much skin, crawler cocoons, chimera felt, scales, saliva, and dragonblood as possible. Definitely an imbalance in retainer ventures at the moment.