Sparrow's Complete FFXIV Retainer Guide

[Jojoya]

My MIN/BTN retainers with at least 2008 gathering skill and my FSH retainer at 1597 gathering skill get the "Your retainer's current gear should improve chances of finding rare items." message from quick ventures. I've removed some materia from them to see what point the message goes back to "with better gear".

At 423 ilvl, my DoW/DoM retainers are still getting the "With better gear, your retainer may be able to procure even rarer items." message. I'll work on increasing their ilvl tonight to see where it changes.

edit: reducing MIN/BTN to 1948 and FSH to 1567 was still getting improved chances so I'm still playing with those.

At 426, a DoW retainer received the "should improve chances" message so I'm guessing the cutoff is 425.