Quote Originally Posted by WellFooled View Post
Its a bit of an irony since Shougun and I were just joking about menu content, but one example of that might interest you. Retainers can be sent out to collect specific materials (Disciples of War/Magic retainers can be sent to retrieve drops from monsters and botanist/miner retainers can be sent out to get gatherable resources), which you may find helpful. Each of these task costs 1 Venture, which is a currency you can most commonly earn from Grand Company in exchange for company seals. I find it a great way to gather resources without needing to do it manually.

Since we already have retainer ventures for easy gathering resources and housing gardens for crossbreeding/seed growing purposes, I hope whatever these farms are offers something new. (mandatory on topic paragraph because of my derail)
The thing is that while retainers can gather certain resources, they almost never can get the stuff that's needed for the latest crafts.

IE, FSH retainers can only gather snailfish at best, which were only relevant back in 4.2. If they could get Koromo Octopi for the Takoyaki recipe, they'd be a lot more useful.