Bot and Min retainers not returning HQ items on high level ventures

[Roth_Trailfinder]

Which items did they bring back HQ?

[Kaaylryn]

All my DoL retainers tend to bring back HQ most of the time so not sure why yours are not and mine are just wearing NPC bought gear. I have 4 DoL retainers and yesterday for example 2 brought back HQ items, 1 brought back a big game fish and the other brought back a fat cat minion.

The fat cat was from an 18 hour venture, yes? I was speaking about the normal bot and min ventures. My bot did bring back 1 HQ Ramie but I have not seen any HQ items for DOL ventures higher than that and rarely for anything lower than that. Both are still wearing a mix of 2.0 and 3.0 gear, still working on upgrades.

[Snugglebutt]

The fat cat was from an 18 hour venture, yes? I was speaking about the normal bot and min ventures. My bot did bring back 1 HQ Ramie but I have not seen any HQ items for DOL ventures higher than that and rarely for anything lower than that. Both are still wearing a mix of 2.0 and 3.0 gear, still working on upgrades.

All of my retainers only currently do 18 hour ones because in process of leveling them, sorry if I did not make that clear.

[elfolampo]

There seems to be a correlation between perception, (and GP? I'm not sure on this one however) and HQ items. While it's not certain, I tried gearing my Botanist with the perception items (she now has the full level 60 set) and melded everything with perception. She now has 610 gathering, 639 perception, and while earlier I barely saw any HQ items (gathering did increase the number of items she could get, however, it's all 20 or 30 now), she now occasionally brings me back batches of 20 hq dark chestnuts (sometimes there's a split, like 17 nq 3 hq, but full hq batches seem common). My two fishers seemed to have a difference in the ability to bring back hq items based on their gear, too.
So in short:
Gathering: ability to gather items, amount of items (caps)
Perception: ability to gather hq items, amount of hq items (randomized)
GP: ???
Level difference: time for venture completion (10-19 level difference shaves 10 minutes,20+ level difference shaves 20 minutes, and it caps there)