FFXIV – The Retainer experience



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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49 thoughts on “FFXIV – The Retainer experience”

  1. 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.

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  2. 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 >.>

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  3. 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.

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  4. 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)

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  5. 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."

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  6. 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.

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  7. 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.

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  8. 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.

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  9. 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…

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  10. 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.

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  11. 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.

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  12. 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.

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  13. 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.

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  14. 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.

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  15. 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.

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  16. 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.

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