HQ Forager and Artisan Retainer drops... Gee Thanks SE for the Lost Income

[Katlyna]

You mean that Battle Retainers are bringing this HQ gear back from Quick Ventures? I noticed that on MIN/BOT Retainers can now bring back Darksteel Ore / Gold Ore Silkworm Cocoons from lv 50, also Shroud Tea Leaves, Ebony Wood and Feberite.

Lol yup it appears the battle retainers are bringing back a notable quantity of these items from quick ventures. Our server is just starting to see the influx of the workbenches. Problem is the demand for all of these was never particularly high... so the retainers are crashing the markets quickly as the rate they bring these back is MUCH greater than the consumption of said items.

I will admit the pricing of the items was high on our server.

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IF I were a developer I would have had the gathering retainers find Ehcalt sealants and Gladenuts. The prices would have crashed but gather retainers would have lowered the prices and pushed some money into gathers pockets. And Crafters would still have to make the items and higher access would have caused low-mid crafters to be able to reasonable make the items lowering the prices for the items naturally but still passing the money to crafters.

[marewa]

I realized this morning that HQ Forager and Artisan gear is dropping like candy off battle retainers now. Which was a really bizarre choice given that the demand for the HQ level 50 gear was super low to begin with.

It may have been a bit goofy to have been cutting a 200% profit on these since Heavensword released... but that's what crafters do. We make things and sell things!!!

Why the heck would SE intentionally invalidate our ability to make and sell things. Is it just me or is this really really wrong? I understand its outdated content but still... what the HECK SE!?

So much this, 4 retainers, 20 items each now useless thanks to these damn ventures. 500k items at 30k. I want to cry each time i see those retainers.

[Jxnibbles]

Inferno's horn, Ads items, Burning Auricles, Rare seeds, Wootz gear, Artisan gear, some farming items (thav onions ect), benches, grade 4 materia galore, Levi barb to name a few I seen. Also please note this was between me and a friend we had 6 retainers each and 2 accounts each. So 24 retainers a hour.

[Caimie_Tsukino]

Out of all these things, why can't my retainer just bring me a Kingly Whisker?!!!! WHYYYY!!! T_T *cries*

[Lexia]

The artisan gear is pretty useless as soon as 3.1 came out for anyone that didn't have their crafts leveled already cause the Archaeonskin has better stats and is cheaper. On Balmung the artisan gear sells for like 300k and the Archaeonskin sells for like 50k yea your market for artisan gear was lost right there. Looking at the retainers they had nothing to do with the loss of income of those items.

[Mindy_Macready]

The only use for Artisan gear at this point is glamour. Once you hit 51 you'll have competitive stats on even the free drops you get from class quests. Getting from 50 to 51 is not terrible difficult, it doesn't require the artisan gear.

[Katlyna]

The artisan gear is pretty useless as soon as 3.1 came out for anyone that didn't have their crafts leveled already cause the Archaeonskin has better stats and is cheaper. On Balmung the artisan gear sells for like 300k and the Archaeonskin sells for like 50k yea your market for artisan gear was lost right there. Looking at the retainers they had nothing to do with the loss of income of those items.

Despite your point I was still selling fully melded artisan/forager armor and all offhands for 500-800k a pop. The rate they sold was slow but non the less it was exceptionally profitable over time.

[Lexia]

Despite your point I was still selling fully melded artisan/forager armor and all offhands for 500-800k a pop. The rate they sold was slow but non the less it was exceptionally profitable over time.

So you upset that you are unable take advantage of the less knowledgeable people that didn't know about the level 52 set?

[NorthernLadMSP]

So you upset that you are unable take advantage of the less knowledgeable people that didn't know about the level 52 set?

You hit the nail on the head.

[Espritduo]

Or people without HW. Or people with money to burn who wanted a leg up on levelling to 60. Or people who wanted them for glamour.

There are many reasons people buy things, not all of them are stupid. And now the people who were making good, honest, steady money from them cannot. Because SE said so.