Venture Coffer and Retainer gear reward level (possible bug)

[LibitIncarne]

The gear level thing only applies to making certain items HQ or a marginally higher number of materials. It's random, doesn't always happen even when conditions are met, and doesn't affect Venture Coffers.

[EbonySeraphim]

Thnk you and appreciate it. I noticed after focusing on it that the bonus was not every time too. I thought there was rhyme and reason to it while I was leveing up -- though I did catch it at times not making sense, since they were leveling and I was constantly changing up gear, I didn't want to slow down and figure it out. Now that both are stable at max, I can see that it is random. Though "greater rewards" don't always seem greater to me. This is off/extra topic question: will higher ilvl increase the chance I'll get that bonus tier reward in a general?

I guess I gotta keep praying to RNGesus.

[LibitIncarne]

This is off/extra topic question: will higher ilvl increase the chance I'll get that bonus tier reward in a general?

Wasn't able to respond earlier because of the 50/day limit.
Higher IL increases the chance that you'll get the bonus tier reward, but only in that you'll be more likely to have something that your IL is high enough to have the bonus apply to.
Housing Items and Dungeon/Tome gear can never have the bonus tier applied to it, and the 1 crystal fallback can't either.