retainers are the storage units of the game, that and the chocobo saddlebag help you keep any item you find in FFXIV
but retainers also have the ability to go out into the world and bring tons of useful items!… sometimes
but dont be too harsh on them, maybe they would be more motivated if their pay wasn’t exclusively in ventures
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Minimum height aura girl retainer: (brings me A GIGANTIC AF TELESCOPE)
Me: Uhhh how did you—
Retainer: Fell off the back of a carriage
Me: Um, did–
Retainer: BACK. OF. A. CARRIAGE.
I was expecting a Stuffed Alpha, my retainers constantly bring me those xD
My retainers keep getting mad at me for talking to them while they are on ventures lol
"Hey I paid 40 of those things to get you a proper education in axe-swinging, you better be grateful."
Sometimes I imagine they get together with other retainers to fight duties, steal bits of peoples houses, and sometimes they get together for lunch and bring us leftovers or a to go meal. I still feel insulted over single crystals when the gatherers can bring back a bigger amount in 40 mins to one crystal for an hour exploration >.>
A Venture has the value you put on it. Not a corporation, not economics, not some government treasury official. Think of it like rare art or baseball cards. This is the cutting edge of a new, daring field of societal valuation.
Mine keep bringing back windup cars, what are they trying to tell me?
Meanwhile a retaininer bringing you the roof of a mansion. Look dude I have a cottage where is that going to fit? xD
You get a crystal when the item your retainer would have brought back is Unique, and the same item is already in your inventory, and since you can't have two of them because they're unique, it defaults to random crystal instead. (As far as i know)
My retainer experience has been nothing compared to PotD. I keep getting random people's underwear.
Its the thought that counts! I burn thru so many crystals that i could honestly use any i can get my hands on. But if you wanna farm crystals for me THAT much. You can get them hourly for me, kay? 😊
I actually imagine the Retainers actually spend the Venture Tokens like John Wick spends his assassin coins. Like, behind the scenes, he's off getting cool suits and staying at swanky hotels. I'm really convinced my Retainers are retired Warriors of Light and just break into dungeons and property and steal this stuff. It's only when they're feeling lazy they're like "Here's a single Earth Crystal."
Ye the retainer vocate mentions that the ventures are essentially chits that retainers turn in for payment. How much payment is anyone's guess.
Your retainer spends their ventures … on their own retainers! It's like a pyramid scheme.
Imagine the retainers going wherever they go to get their loot and being subjected to RNG as the WoL while ALSO having to compete with other people retainers AND a deadline limiting their ability to grind. How good their loot is depends on how much luck they had that day.
You don't want to know where they got those. Or how.
Retainer can bring up the issue of payment with the Retainer Union and then get back to me.
See this is what happens when we challenge our Serv…I meant colleagues when we send them out to hunt…they can go full on common sense on us.
iirce Ventures are given by the city states, which your retainers are properly employed by, in response to you doing jobs for them. That's why most levequests can get you ventures. The retainers themselves are paid by the city.
Are Ventures useless or something? What do you use them for?
It's very simple venture coins are Eorzea's version of a solid you pay someone a solid and then they pay that forward and on and on until everyone gets a favor retainer just means you're someone's "helper" That's why you get venture when you do "favors" for the beast tribes.
meanwhile my fishing retainer: HERE'S A HANDFUL OF LEMONS
where did he fish for that, do not ask me. It was a waterside exploration, it took him 18 hours to get me 7 lemons…
[edit]: and it was not once, nor twice… not even 5 times…
Hey those ventures are like 2 days worth of quests in a single beast tribe
Don't retainer slots cost real money? Past like two?
Lets hope they don't unionize or we may start having to actually pay them in something other than funbucks.
Paid them in exposure.
iirc retainers are paid from the city states tax reserves, the retainer guide npc had the whole lore dump
I wont lie, i felt guilty that i didnt pay mine. So now they have 4,000 gil each anytime they go out on a venture, that way its like im paying for any expenses or luxuries they may want, while on the job. So they learn, and they can pay for what they want.
And WHY do we pay them in ventures? Cause that's the only payment they accept smh my head.
I'd pay them in gil if it meant not needing to farm ventures ever.
We pay in Ventures? Have we turned into Rowena?
One of my retainers is on boring but steady and dependable crystal farming duties. The other is on the far more volatile quick venture duty, which SOMETIMES nets me a crate full of two jet black dyes that some asshole will pay half a million gil each for.
I have a favorite retainer.
@Adan: I hope you have hoovered the picture and read the minion-text of the fat-cat-minion…
Retainers… Retainers are scary.
Mine keeps giving me a bowl of sweet cream. I am horrified.
So… what do you do nowadays in xiv.
I love the lunacy of retainers stealing doors and windows, but my favorite so far is Bacon Bits. The flavor text basically says your retainer made it in a fugue state and I have SO many questions.
Well then I guess some of them are just more passionate about their work. Especially when they rip the roof off a house and bring it back to me.
Hey being the underpaid janitor (hero) to the people is taxing as hell.
Sometimes you gotta let someone taste the same medicine.
My retainer, spitefully peeling the entire roof off of somebody's house in Shirogane after being paid a worthless currency and told to fuck off for an hour:
And then on the opposite side they'll come back with the strongest obtainable raid weapon in normal content. Or literal housing exteriors.
And you look upon them with fear in your heart.
I figured it was like retainers turn them in on their own and either get paid from the amount or turn them in for goods and services to put them back in circulation.
I once got a Calfskin Jacket from my retainer
One of my retainers LOVES Alpha Plushies and wants to bring me a new one ALL THE TIME.
I would rather have a single Fire Crystal than a Bom Boko that I cannot sell or desynth.
they get a cut from our market board sales, so…on commission?
I have friends who, through getting some of their favorite classes to 90 before getting to Endwalker…. have Retainers that steal regularly from Rowena and also give them level 90 gear they should not have. We are afraid.
I like how retainers can be like "Hey boss I brought you a stick and Jim over there just stole all the furniture from an FC house"
You should've touched on the fact you can send a fisher out on a quick venture and bring back like gear from the 13th
"Oh Hydaelyn don't you call me, 'cuz I can't go, I sold my soul to the Venture store."
Imagine being paid with such a dubious currency. Anyways, I need to go spend my Grand Company seals at my Grand Company.