Yea, when I think of all the different ways to utilize the retainers and market ward system, I'm happy!

They have levels, so I would say eventually there will be tasks we can set them to do.

Maybe once we get them to a certain level they can roam the city streets and not be condemned to the market. While out of the wards,their items would be unsearchable via the item counter, but once they returned to the wards they could reappear.

Another thing I would like to be able to do is create 'repair kits' to repair certain ranges of ranked gear(ie. 0-10, 11-20, ...) that we can give to our roaming retainers to offer needed repair services to adventurers.