Retainer Level?

[Nikita]

Wow, that's pretty cool! I have to laugh at any "easy mode" comment. Nothing about gathering was hard, it was rather time consuming however. If you liked gathering, you can still gather yourself to see much higher returns for any time invested. This seems like a nice alternative for people that don't like gathering but do like to craft.

I didn't see anyone arguing that retainers selling items while the player was offline was breaking anything, I mean, without an auction house wouldn't it be less "easy mode" (lol) for the player to have to sell the items themselves and be logged in with their bazaar open? I don't see why people are so afraid of change, and it is getting rather annoying to see people cherry picking which items seem to magically break the game/their immersion.

It's a game, have fun with it! Don't like a feature? Don't use the feature!

[Sakasa]

This reminds me of SWTOR in a way since you could always send crew mates to get stuff that would have been to time consuming compared to overall net worth. Now FFXIV gathering nodes are much more centralized and respawn at a faster rate but the system is still handy for those that need iron ore but don't feel like hoofing it out to La Noscea when they are waiting at the Garuda/Ifrit Node.

Also about the market being flooded maybe it was a balmung thing but all basic materials were always flooded. If anything even got below 20 pieces a price hike followed by a under cut flood would occur. So I doubt this will effect the economy anymore then people being there normal money grubbing selves. But sending out a retaining to gather might be counter intuitive if profit is your gain because if they are doing "chores" they might not be able to host AH spots for your stuff to sell.

[Cynthis]

I think grinding endlessly in dungeons for darklight gear was a chore. If I can have my retainer do that for me then I am ok with this. If not, then I strongly object to having a "retainer bot" gathering for those who can't be bothered with it.