the amount of items we get from using retainer ventures is kinda low

[papichulo123]

I send my retainer to gather crystals 30 in one hour is low I can go myself and gather like 300 crystals in a hour everything needs to be increased

[Ashkendor]

I send my retainer to gather crystals 30 in one hour is low I can go myself and gather like 300 crystals in a hour everything needs to be increased

Mine bring back 30 crystals or 60 shards every 40 minutes. During that 40 minutes, I can queue for dungeons, harvest other things, craft, do gathering favors, or any number of other things that doesn't involve farming crystals and I still get 90 crystals/180 shards every 40 minutes by sending 3 retainers out after them. Heck, I can send them then go afk and watch TV and send them out again during a commercial. Or I can go farm crystals myself and send my retainers out after them at the same time and get that many more (but seriously, farming crystals is pretty soul-crushing work; my mining retainers are lalafell so they have no souls to crush).

The point isn't to trivialize gathering them yourself, but rather to give you an alternative.

[LadyVal]

The Field Exploration rewards have felt off ever since Heavensward to me. In ARR, the 18-hour ventures usually had unique items, like minions, at each "tier," but that doesn't seem to be the case for the highest tier right now at least.

Using the current highest tier field exploration, I did get a Tiny Tapir. So that's a thing. But I usually get chimerical felt, crawler silk, or strength/vitality dissolvents.

[Alahra]

Using the current highest tier field exploration, I did get a Tiny Tapir. So that's a thing. But I usually get chimerical felt, crawler silk, or strength/vitality dissolvents.

Yeah, I've gotten that little guy before, too. But he's available in multiple lower tiers, too, so that's hardly a perk for the current highest tier one. I know one of the two tiers before this one could drop Iron Giant Scraps for the minion, but as far as I've been able to tell that's not carried over to the new one.

[Lemuria]

I have a more particular bone to pick with the retainer ventures. Why do they keep raising the bar for rare item gathering?

Items which my retainer would normally bring back without many issues (rare dyes, special gear etc) instantly stop whenever an update comes. The ilvl for rare items seems to increase along with the maximum item level. I get that my retainers shouldn't be bringing back any of the new top-tier stuff, but why do they also stop finding the stuff they've had no issues finding in the previous update.

Several updates later, I'm convinced this is the case as I've encountered this issue with every major patch.