Best Way to Farm Gil with Retainers?

[MicahZerrshia]

You don't need melded gear, it doesn't work the same as gear on our characters. There is a hard cap on them and increasing beyond that cap won't do anything. For dow/m it goes just on ilvl, other stats don't matter. And you don't need the best gear, I just use the gear from the latest dungeon and its well above what is usually needed. When it comes to gathering, scrip gear is good enough to get them to bring back the best items and is incredibly easy to get.

You can try quick exploration since you can score with dyes and what not that sell high, but most of the time you are going to get just crap or dungeon gear. The perk of this is you can trade that gear in for gc points which you can convert to coke or hardened sap, etc, that still sells for a fair amount. Although this won't be too quick.

You can do standard ventures for crafting materials, but most of the time they are the same materials that go for nearly nothing on the market board or are slow sellers. So the best thing you can do with them is to farm raw materials and craft them into something that sells for more.

You can also try the 18 hour ventures which will bring back hq crafting items, again generally ones that don't sell for much, along with a few thousand gil worth of allagan coins.

All in all its good to have a mixture of battle and gathering retainers, because its particularly helpful, esp if you have an fc and want to make the best parts for your ships, furniture and such as well as be able to bring back basic items if need be for other crafting purposes. But I would not count on them for a steady flow of income because the good stuff can be few and far between and the raw crafting items they can obtain usually are the items that sell for the least on mb. Usually they are merely a way to supplement your income.