Suggestions-Acquiring loads of Ventures

[BeautifulNerf]

I own eight retainers (per character). Of those, six are level 60- ilvl ranging from i176-i210 (3.5k eso's to go... and 58ish VA runs until all 6 are ilvl 210), and the other two are level 47-48.

I've been sending the six level 60 retainers out on quick ventures non-stop for over a week now. And I finally started blitzing my other two retainers with quick ventures (after they reached level 44).

The issue I'm running into is keeping up with acquiring ventures. Normally, I would keep 500 ventures on me at all times, but having to devote most of my time towards running VA. I soon find myself scrambling to acquire more ventures when I dip below 100. (I spike up to 300-400 ventures) then run more VA... but now, I'm starting to feel burnt out of the game doing this constant loop (for 7 days in a row).

[BeautifulNerf]

Ideas? Currently I trade all green/blue gear they receive for ventures, and I need/greed all gear in dungeons. And I do occasional hunts (I'm thinking this is faster to acquire vs's running dungeons).

[OoglieBooglie]

You can craft green gear to turn in for seals, any level. You could do the i220 crafted gear (and in the process wipe your butt with hundred dollars bills), or make stuff like the i55 gear from 2.0 (much more economical). HQ doesn't matter for the expert provisioning thingie, same seals regardless. You can also do the gc turn ins for your crafter/gatherers once a day for each crafting/gathering class, where HQ GIVES DOUBLE SEALS, and starred turn ins also double it (so starred hq is 4x the seals and exp). Beast tribes give ventures as well. And some treasure maps can give you multiple ventures as a possible drop. But holy crap, 8 retainers. Feels a little excessive to me. What do you even store on them? Every single item you come across?

[MomomiMomi]

You can get over 100 ventures in an hour gathering the mats for and crafting i55 gear and turning it in.

[aesteval]

But holy crap, 8 retainers. Feels a little excessive to me. What do you even store on them? Every single item you come across?

Can't speak for OP, but:

Retainer 1: ingredients
Retainer 2: reagents
Retainer 3: stones
Retainer 4: cloth, leather, bone
Retainer 5: food, potions, wood, parts, other, miscellany
Retainer 6: glamours, materia, catalysts
Retainer 7: seafood, metal, dyes
Retainer 8: gear waiting for desynth

All the hording, all the time.

[Cynthis]

I would get 4 more retainers in addition to my 8 if I could tbh...

[Mandudez]

Hunts are by far the best way of getting ventures. Grab a good hunt LS or two and especially go after as many S ranks as you can. I'm not sure what the cap is this patch but I don't think you quite need i210 gear on retainers to get everything.

[BeautifulNerf]

I pretty much stumbled upon the best way of acquiring ventures. I decided to join 8 different Hunt Linkshells, and I spend 1-2 hours farming A and S rank mobs. I got about 600 ventures in 2 1/2 hours yesterday. Plus, I trade in any Blues I get from my retainers on quick ventures, plus the green that are unsellable on the mb, or the greens that sell below 1k per item. I turned in over 100 items that my retainers brought back, for GC. Then converted the GC into ventures (a little over 350 ventures).

I'm barely under 1k ventures now. And I can coast for a few weeks doing minimal doing minimal upkeep to keep my ventures stocked.

Oh, and I don't use the retainers to store items. I use them to have more selling power. I make 100-500k per day from shortsales (pure 100% profit from the items my retainers bring back). And I also re-invest my gil into the local economy. I'm up to being worth over 50mil now in a little over 20 weeks of play time. Zero crafting or gatherer jobs.