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Will +1 and +2 items be removed from gathering, like they were with loot? Maybe you can have +1 and +2 HQ items be crafted only.

It really takes up too much of a gatherer's inventory space.

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Are there plans for more Gathering classes?

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Will we ever be able to harvest materials off of monsters themselves, such as in the Monster Hunter games? Or is this the purpose of the loot system already?

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Will gathering classes (and crafting classes) get their own storyline quests moving forward?

Because parley is crap and the storyline quests aren't fun at all.

My questions:

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Will we ever see actual resources at gathering points rather than only sparkling lights?

That would be awesome to be able to hunt resources by seeing first hand what kind of tree it is or minerals in the deposit, etc.
(For example, WoW has that in a simplified form)

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Will the gathering animations ever be reworked or redone through motion capture to improve the realism and fluidity of the animation?

Ever since the gathering animations were sped up, it somewhat feels odd to see my little Lalafell be momentarily under high speed for certain part of the movement. It feels weird, like something is not right (and was obviously sped up compared to the original movements).

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Can we manually mark the map with different types of icon as mining, fishing, and Logging point in the future update?

Advantages:
1 Alot more fun during solo play, you mark your own map by your own experience.
2 Allowing players to learn better about the game, such as when will a pirticular mining point turns out under which weather at what time.
3 Players can use ps3 move motion controller to do marking in the future.
4 Reduce the chance for players to switch between Disciples of the Land website and game window.

Recommandations:
1 Players can switch between normal map and marking map.
2 Players are able to delete the marked icon.
3 Players are able to select rank, weather, enter the time for each marking.

wow where do i begin lol ok

My Questions:

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If a mob attacks me while I am chopping trees, why can't use my hatchet?

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When are we going to get more gathering guildleves?

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Why is there gathering fatigue? Since I can go out and kill mobs and still get items for eternity why cant I do the same with gathering?

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When I hit a sweet spot I still get random items, why is this?

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I am closing in on r40 btn, is there plans for higher gear?

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When are higher grades going to be available for btn and min?

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Instead of btn always destroying the landscape why cant we also mend and fix plant life?

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Is there anyway on brining farming to FFXIV? kinda like what we could do in our moghouses in XI

here is a question that hasnt been brought up in a long time

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Where is cinnamon? I see it for sale at a vendor but no one knows where this is.

From the top....

Here are the top questions that come to mind....

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Are there any plans to give Miners the ability to mine in mines?

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There are too many versions of the same item that can be gathered (NQ, HQ+2, HQ+3) Are there any plans to remove these unnecessary item hogs?

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Outside of the tools both Botanist & Miner lack any uniqueness in armor that you would identify with the jobs. Are there any plans to overhaul the whole equipment system for both classes?

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Are there currently any plans to adjust SP gain for gathers to put them on more equal terms when compared to DoH and DoM classes?

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Currently Miner seems pretty straightforward, and doesn't seem to be an evolving class. Are there any plans to add more depth to gathering classes? Miner R36 quest comes to mind.

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What is the direction going forward for guild marks? Gathering classes appear to have half the "useful" amount of choices when compared to battle classes. Will adjustments be made to provide useful abilities and traits that enhance the classes?

Here's what i got so far..

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Can we please have atleast our grade six gathering points?

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Are there plans to impliment side quests for Dol/DoH?

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Please explain to people how allowing none gathering classes to gather would destroy the concept of DoL.

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Would it be possible to create paths that require DoL to access?(MIN remove rocks, BTN remove Overgrowth)

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How do you plan to balance the DoW/M getting Advanced Jobs for DoL and DoH?

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Would it be possible to give BTN or a new Farmer class an Instanced Farm such as the one in the BTN storyline?

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Would it be possible to give DoL/DoH combat support Support Abilities without turning them into combat classes?(It wouldn't be fair to allow us to fight like DoW/M)

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Are there plans in the future to add more traits that will work across none combat classes?

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Can you pleae allow the use of Eluder abilities on DoW/DoM? It doesn't make sence that they cannot use them.

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Fishing is very boring in comparison to the other DoL classes. Will it ever become more like a fishing simulator like FFXI's fishing mechanic? It was much more fun to fight the fish than play a hot and cold game.

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Would it be possible to implement separate inventory lists for consumables/materials from gathering and equipment? The current system is very limited.

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The number of leves available to DoL is very limited. When will more DoL leves be available?

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Are there any plans for gardening and animal husbandry classes?

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Are there any plans to incorporate the Playstion Move into DoL classes come PS3 release?

I think that covers all my questions. ^^

These are my concerns.

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When I hook a fish, if I take even two seconds before jigging it, my fish gets away.

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There isn't enough salt-water fishing spots.

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I can fish in the fountain in town, but I can't fish in natural water sources like Sorrel Haven. Whats up with this? I want to fish in these natural sources.

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Will we see mining points available in the mines?

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Too many DoL leves require us to gather right on top of high rank agro mobs. This doesn't prevent botting, it just prevents players from finishing leves.

I loved gardening in FFXI, growing crystals or just tree cutting, whether watering, examining etc.. the whole process was very good,

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Any plans to Implement Gardening similar to FFXI or a Gardening class(Farmer lol)?

Thank You!

Here are my questions.

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Are there any plans for group related gathering content, as was hinted in early development?

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Are there any plans to release gathering nodes higher than Grade 5 for Miners and Botanists "As well as populate the 6-10 nodes for fishing?

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Are there any plans to bring in new ways to gain SP for gathering classes? IE: New types of Leves or some other form of SP gain.

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Are there any future plans to integrate the gathering classes into a more co-operative scenario, or will gathering remain a mainly solo activity?

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If fishing a body of water, does the type of bait effect everything or are some types of fish attracted more to some types of bait?

I've noticed I get a lot of the same type of fish with some baits, especially ones that give the message something big hits your line.

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Which areas would be considered ocean other than the ferry?

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Chocobo fly and other lures do not say where is best to use, are these all purpose like rat tails?

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Are there plans to add water type to lures that currently don't list favored?

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Will gathering leves be adjusted to make them worthwhile for SP?

Currently they seem a waste of time and Guardian Aspect for little SP reward.

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Will the mini games become different for each gathering class?

Seriously, is anyone not totally bored of the same hot and cold game on all 3 classes?

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Have any of you (the development team) worked outdoors in leather?

Ha ha, sorry, had to ask, it's very silly to wear anything but cloth even for underground mining.

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Grade 6 nodes. Can I have it?

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In the future, will I be able to fish up mobs on the ferry rides? If so, and I'm KOed (dang you, Anglers!), would I return to the last aetheryte I touched, or complete the boat ride?

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Are any epic fish swimming into the waters of Eorzea?

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Can we expect more high level gathering gear? Or even (gasp!) NM gear for gathering classes?

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Some gathering leves require you to gather from nodes that are apparently magnets for high level mobs or NMs. Will those mobs or gathering nodes be moved?

10 characters?

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Originally Posted by Akuun

If fishing a body of water, does the type of bait effect everything or are some types of fish attracted more to some types of bait?

Some fish are attracted to certain kinds of bait. Whenever you get the message that "The fish seem to be biting on [bait type]," that means that fish really likes your bait.

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Which areas would be considered ocean other than the ferry?

The areas along the Western edge of Thanalan and along the outside of Limsa Lominsa are ocean fishing.

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Chocobo fly and other lures do not say where is best to use, are these all purpose like rat tails?

Chocobo flies are for freshwater (lakes and rivers).

My questions are related to item quality. Why are we still seeing NQ, +1, +2 and +3 items in the game? Items obtained through gathering see the brunt of this. Why aren't they simply NQ and +1 items?

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There are still many quality versions of the same item that can be gathered (NQ, +1, +2, +3). This was addressed with monster drops (NQ and +3). Will this be addressed with gathering?

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Item quality has been somewhat addressed with monster drops. +1 was converted to NQ and +2 was converted to +3. However, this is still confusing since NQ and +3 items lead to the logical conclusion that +1 and +2 items must still exist. Why aren't all HQ items simply converted to +1, which will not only be more concise but also alleviate inventory space issues?

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In order to improve SP gain above rank 40, could gathering leves be given star ratings that would adjust to difficulty, via adding hostile spawns around nodes, and the rank difficulty of the node?

This can make eluder abilities and escorts/team play more valuable.

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In order to improve SP gain above rank 40, could gathering leves be more effectively linked, so that more people = more items to gather in the leve and possibly... shared SP gain?

Quite frankly the link/share option, although available, is broken for DoL and needs a full revamp.

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Can there be a feature gatherers can purchase with guild marks to scan for harvesting, quarrying, and spearfishing nodes?

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Can the stats or quality of offhand tools ever allow improved item targeting or aiming?

It is presently extremely random for aim or success. at R40+ Botanist I still frequently miss even on grade 1 harvesting.

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Can a high-rank dairy food be implemented for perception boost?

Highest perception food is rank 20-ish blue cheese which is so basic that it can be purchased from a vendor.

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Can a larger variety of output, gathering and perception gear be implemented to allow DoL to stack stats more effectively based on "favors" and "requires" functionality?

To add challenge to this, some components may require outside support, such as the Mosshorn Scalemail requiring NM drop and high- level crafting to create.
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Could the stats on this Mosshorn Scalemail be rebalanced to benefit gatherers?

It has a very niche functionality as it is right now, so people simply do not consider mosshorn a worthwhile Notorious Monster. Making the piece of significant benefit to gatherers (i.e. better than linen coatee or tarred leather jerkin) would indirectly make Mosshorn far more competitive of a target.

Gathering Abilities and future :

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Will Chocobo digging ever be implemented into the gathering ?

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Currently you have sneak skills that only allow you to pass one enemy of a certain kind of enemies. Will Beastkin Eluder or Seedkin Eluder ever be adjusted?

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Currently for botanist and miner we have skills that say increased chance at certain crystals i.e Byregot's Ward but these skills do not provide us with crystals at all. Are these skills mislabeled or is there plans to readjust them?

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Gathering quests when?

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What are the effects of attributes on gathering?

For my next question I think it would be a good idea for me first to give some reference to the question. I am unsure how many people are aware of this technique since I see few people actually do it. With the current game mechanics it is possibly to keep up a node indefinitely by cycling through four nodes instead of three. I like to call this the 4 node trick. With this trick you don't even have to gather. All you have to do is open up the gather mini game and back out. If you do that on four nodes it will reset the first node. This also means you don't have to completely finish gathering from a node thus never exhausting it. This also makes it extremely convenient when your targeting specific items. So this brings me to my question,

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Is what I call the four node trick intentional?

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Any plans for a visual/text indicator for when you're in gathering fatigue?

10 characters.

Great idea! :) Here's my question:

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If you have to keep Gathering Fatigue, would you consider a new activity like "Restoring" to let all Gatherers continue to gain Skill Points (SP) without gaining items?

This would be like "Restoring the Trees" or "Restoring / strengthening Mineral Veins" or "Restoring the Ocean." It would be an activity that does *not* have to yield Items, but will let Gatherers continue to earn SP without the hidden Fatigue.

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Why are there up to grade 10 fishing spots and only grade 5 for mining and botanist? Do you realize that fishing can be much faster to rank up than mining/botanist?

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Some fieldcraft leves make you run a ridiculous amount of distance from camp! Is that really necessary? The challenge in the leve should be in successfully gathering the items, not having to make us run thousands of yalms

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A lot of gathering nodes are located near NMs! Any plans to fix this?

That's it for now:)

rather than go through all the questions posted ill just post my questions. Any duplicates I am sorry for the people going through these.

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Any plan to remove Gathering Fatigue? If not is there anything to be done about the loss of sp during this process

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Any plans for Group Activites? either gatherer with gatherers or any other mix of classes

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Will we see nodes for mining and botany go past 5 in the future? as getting sp past rank 43 is really really slow compared to other classes who all have things they can grind on up to at least rank 50

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with the new job based system will gathering classes be seeing any changes with it?

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space is a serious issue with gathering classes especially with 4 times every single type of item, any chance to alleviate this issue? either with extra bag space for gathering classes or removing +1/2 mats

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You can currently get multiple types of wood from a single tree. This makes no sense at all - would it be possible to simply add multiple types of trees to an area and have each tree contain different types of wood?

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Following on from the above - why can I get wood from a cactus!? Eorzea is pretty weird. ;)

Adding text to make up ten characters.

My Question:

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Will gathering classes receive advanced jobs or some sort of content specific to DoL ?

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Originally Posted by Duuude007

My name sounds "trippy" but these are some of the greatest words of wisdom yet.

May I request a second like button? I have two thumbs and just giving this man one does NOT do his post justice.

Listen. To this. Man.

Man, almost feel like reposting him on a quote just to make sure everyone read it. Everyone.

My questions as well:

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I think Fishing should be more active (more action oriented) because it should give to the player a sense of 'fight' with the fish (FF11 has something about it). Any plans about it?

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What about to add various types of special bags/sacks/baskets for every Gathering type?

Thanks!

My question:

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Are there any plan to make cooperation between DoL and DoW/DoM possible or even needed for some gathering? For example: adding new materials in dungeons or adding guildleves where DoW/DoM would have to protect the DoL during the gathering.

I hope these aren't already put up somewhere so forgive me if they're wrong but here are a few I've got that have been nagging me, specifically the first.

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Why are our DOLs gathering abilities luck based and/or based on the Random Number Generator?

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Instead of making our gathering abilities abysmally chained to luck (enough of our game/DOL classes already are) why not make the gathering abilities like DOM/DOW, with a cool-down? This way we could get more consistent results and use our abilities as we see fit.

The above particularly is an issue when you're trying to go for HQ items and want an ability to aid in your search, or simply for leveling, if we could use Sweat of Brow consistently rather than it triggering on that last swing (or in really bad luck cases: when you finish gathering at a tree or finish your leve and it triggers) it would help with a more consistent SP gains. In terms of using the abilities that grant higher HQ item chances, the results are obvious, if you go mining away at a Jade node hoping for +3, your ability can never trigger, but if you are at an iron node it'll trigger whether or not you want it to.

I for one think we deserve more control. After all we have the same SP requirements per rank as DOM/DOL, we have two types of fatigue as gatherers and for all but fishing we have nothing to grind on in the very very long final stretch to cap. It would also place a bit more control in the hands of the players and lessen that "bad luck" streak that is just so common in this game.

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I'm a Fighter not a lover; Can't I keep a gathering tool equipped along with my weapon of choice?

Would be nice not to have to overhaul all the gear, tools, traits and abilities when I happen to pass by a mine while exploring.

Forgot a few things that came to mind.

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Why can't we mark our maps for gathering locations? Even if we can't in general do this (we really should be able to have a comprehensive set of tools to customize our map, draw on it even, set markers without a limit, etc) can the scanning abilities at least temporarily place markers on our maps?

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As an addition to the above, it would seem as an accomplished Botanist or Miner (especially Botanist) we should be able to tell if a tree is Ash, Walnut, Willow, Cedar, Elm, Mahogany, Pine very easily. All the graphics for the trees run together, is there any plans to change this?

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If we can't get an update to tree graphics to represent the specific type of tree, could we at least get markets on our map and minimap that denote what the trees without a 400yalm radius of us are?

And going off the above again.

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If we have a minimap for animals, and NPCs and other locations, why can't DOLs have minimaps and scannable areas on the map (like FFXI RNG Widescan perhaps) that we can scan or search and be able to tell which node is up and what that node is?

An example would be to open the map as Miner, scan and then see that there are 7 nodes within a 400yalm radius, 4 of them are currently gatherable (not exhausted) and by mousing over or moving the gamepad/arrowkeys to the various markers we could see that one node is an iron vein, the other two are silver/jade veins and the last one is a precious stone vein. DOLs are already abused as it is with double fatigue and having to run through gauntlets of aggro higher up and leves that take us all over the world and are little more than anima burning. We could really use some things to keep our sanity on the grind to cap.

Ok, my turn. These may be duplicate, but then duplicates should get more attention, so all good! ^_^

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Will there be additional guildleves introduced for gatherers so as to provide greater variety in the activities we do?

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Are there plans for gatherers to be able to participate in battle, other than by just throwing stones?

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Can we expect Grade 6 gathering nodes to be introduced any time soon?

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Last time one of the SE guys said that there are different teams working on the different aspects of the game, so development in one area shouldn't be slowing down development in another. The example cited at the time was that events like the "Easter egg festival" do not slow down development of more urgent matters. If that's the case, how come there have been very few improvements to the Disciple of the Land jobs?

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Furthermore, once this Q&A is completed, we will most likely get answers like "We will be looking into this..". Instead of giving us such vague answers, we would appreciate something more concrete. Why don't you give us an action plan for all future Disciple of the Land changes that you want to implement(same as the battle reform blueprint)?

My short questions.

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Will be inplimented marks on maps?

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Will be inlemented additional leve-quest?

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Will there are leve-quest linking and party oriented content for DoL?

My Questions

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Is there any plans to change the fishing mini game, ie to make it faster and less repetitive.

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Are you considering allowing fisherman to fish up monsters and NM's ?

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Are there any plans to add temporary marker (ie arrows/red circle) to the minimap/mainmap to show where a node is after using the respective skill

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Any chance of gardening making its way back into the game?

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For the mateira system, and DOL gathering catlist (sp?) materials, will their be different ranks of materials needed for the materia (lower level classes gather lower level materials), or will there be a one size fits all approach to the catlist materials that are gathered?

Thanks. :)

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Will SP be adjusted for DoL it seems rather low compared to DoH and DoW/DoM?

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Why are Gathering leves shared with battle leves when it comes to the 8 per reset cap?

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The Job System seems like the perfect opportunity to add in combat features for DoL/DoH is this something you folks have considered?

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It would be nice to have abilities to narrow your search for specific items, say something that increases your chance to obtain Logs or Ores, is this something you folks would consider?

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Gathering is boring maybe allow us to change the in game music while performing these tasks

Thanks for your time!

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Great idea! :) Here's my question:

This would be like "Restoring the Trees" or "Restoring / strengthening Mineral Veins" or "Restoring the Ocean." It would be an activity that does *not* have to yield Items, but will let Gatherers continue to earn SP without the hidden Fatigue.

That is a Fantastic Idea..

The Botanist, Guild preaches Carring for the Forest and only taking what you need. Giving us a way to give back would bring alot of depth to the classes as well as allow us a new method to gain SP without flooding the markets.

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Originally Posted by Mightyg

I'm a Fighter not a lover; Can't I keep a gathering tool equipped along with my weapon of choice?
Would be nice not to have to overhaul all the gear, tools, traits and abilities when I happen to pass by a mine while exploring.

That would destroy our classes.. please refrain from pushing this agenda..

Here is my question.

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Any chance to make it feel like a hobby instead of a chore?

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Can we raise our Chocobo to excel in gathering, or perhaps a skill?

Wanted to add my vote to these requests:

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- Removal of +1 and +2 results from gathering
- Have Fieldcraft leves separated from Regional leves

Other questions/suggestions:

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Do you think it could be possible to eliminate node ranks and have class rank + area determine gathering results instead? Class rank would determine "rank" of item that will generate SP, and area would determine the actual item.

There would still be better areas to skill up at and better money maker areas, but it would be more meaningful and allow people to randomly stop by a node to gather from it instead of restricting areas and have useless zones once you reach a certain rank.

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Could gatherers, after reaching a certain rank, have access to some kind of external mobile storage and/or delivery system? Chocobo would definitely be an interesting option to consider. Moogle companion for botany, Goblin for mining and Sahagin for fishing would also be interesting. Other ideas: special mobile retainers, mining carts, botany trailers, fish tanks.

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Would it be possible to add legendary items to Botany and Mining like the legendary fishes?

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Would it be possible to add players’ requests on the Task Board? Using the same mechanic already present in player bazaars (ex: offering 12,000 gil for 100 Silver Ores, 10,000$ for Iron Ore +3, etc ...) but in a more intuitive and centralized area (only difference is that the money/items offered would be deducted right away from the requester inventory). Would definitely stimulate gatherers’ economy and activities (same concept could be applied to DoH, or the same concept could be considered in the Market Wards adjustments).