Retainers, too much interaction?

[Bsrking5]

I dunno, I'd like more interactions with the retainers with random/different dialogue. Add to RP experience, not take it away.

[ElianaGoldstein]

I just wish they would let us apply glamour plates to retainers rather than having to unequip all gear, find it in bags, equip on character, cast glamour, put normal gear back on, dig through bags to re-equip on retainer. The amount of clicks it takes to check prices/collect ventures is fairly trivial.

[Kuroka]

I just wish they would let us apply glamour plates to retainers rather than having to unequip all gear, find it in bags, equip on character, cast glamour, put normal gear back on, dig through bags to re-equip on retainer. The amount of clicks it takes to check prices/collect ventures is fairly trivial.

This, but also...

Yes i am sure its too much clicks, yes i really am, no i dont need another choice i am sure, yes im still sure. xD


Id wish for more interactions, smal lore, story, anything, maybe even a way to use em lieke the GC squat. but less complicated menus.

[MrPresident]

Would be a nice QOL addition but not something I’m particularly pining for either.

[SamSmoot]

I just wish they would let us apply glamour plates to retainers rather than having to unequip all gear, find it in bags, equip on character, cast glamour, put normal gear back on, dig through bags to re-equip on retainer. The amount of clicks it takes to check prices/collect ventures is fairly trivial.

The only equipping I've done with my retainers is to give them enough item level to run the ventures successfully. Glamours? No,. I don't even see them when I'm using them to store / retrieve stuff. To me, they're just a rather clumsy & slow interface for accessing a couple databases.

[Gula]

There is simultaneously too much and too little.

Personalities mean nothing, which is why I like Miqo male independent. Ellipses to speed through while I update my MB listings.

Can't use them as Squadron units or alternatives to Chocobo, and yet all that "personality" and interactions are made to make click click clicking just to send out on a venture then forget about is enough for a dating sim.

Heck, the Chocobo is just a 1 button click.

[LalafellDown]

I agree with you OP. I wish there was some sort of “auto give me the loot and off you go again as soon as I hit the bell button.”

[Ramesses]

I'd just like to be able to yell at my retainers who come back with useless seashells and rocks.

[Garten]

Also, someone posted a mockup of a more efficient retainer UI: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...up-pictures%29
You just select the retainer you want to deal with in the upper left, and the contents of the window change to match that one. No need to keep walking through multiple menu levels.

This is amazing. :O