Level the Playing Field Please

Not a major bitch, but, rather, an observation and suggestion - having leveled all classes to 50, most specifically crafting and gathering, there are some inequities that are glaringly obvious.

IMHO, when you compare the effort to gather electrum ore, vs. cobalt, Halatali is, perhaps, the most painful place to mine. In caves, multiple levels in caves, considerable aggro mobs requiring stealth, just a painfully slow process. Iron Lakes, on the other hand, is /yawn, walk in the park. Couple with this the fact that the recipe for electrum ingots is substantially more demanding. requiring 8 ores, vs. cobalt only 6, it seems punative for GS vs. BS/arm. Personally, I don't care whether you make GS easier or BS/arm harder - the point is, they should be somewhat equal.

The current recipe for wool is somewhat out of line with felt. It shouldn't take more karakul fleece to make wool cloth than felt, and it currently does.

Again, nothing earth-shattering here, or uber urgent - just something to consider tweeking in future patches. Regards.

I'd rather they make the Grade V's harder to get to and increase the drops and XP.

I think there was another thread discussing the placement of nodes in Halitali..hopefully they can make some adjustments on this. Seems to be a gripe with a good number of people.

I don't mind the node placement in Halatali, except when nodes are on opposite ends of the zone. But as OP said more electrum is required in their ingots than cobalt, and yet the rate you get them is pretty much the same (for +1). I wish the rate of getting HQ electrum was a bit higher than HQ cobalt, not to mention iron is used in cobalt which is very easy to get +1's of.

And yes, i agree there are some dumb crafting results as he mentioned.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...xt-adjustments

and

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ali#post671273

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I really feel that first thread would help a lot.