This game needs a new Gatherer class...

I shall call it "Shepherd"
- Shaves Sheep for fleece, Snurbles for fur.
- Locates all animals you can put a shaver on.

Fleece problem solved~

Too few items involved. Throw in skins and I'll hop on board :)

but, but, but!! this class already exist! check old 1.0 dat files :P

WOAH there!!!
I LOVE THIS IDEA

I've suggested this in a few threads before... Just make it a scavenger or something, Triangulate/Prospect reveal Botany/Mining targets on the map, the new classes ability would reveal docile and dead animals. A docile sheep/snurble/diremite you can get fleece/tufts/web from, a dead adlgoat you can get horns/leather from, and so on.

I like it. I would be on board with this.

A+ idea! It should definitely be expanded to skins and horns as well, for a more comprehensive gathering class.

How about "bot catcher"
It can be like pokemon, everytime you find a bot, you gotta capture it

I like this idea!

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Originally Posted by tymora

I shall call it "Shepherd"
- Shaves Sheep for fleece, Snurbles for fur.
- Locates all animals you can put a shaver on.

Fleece problem solved~

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I love this idea. Sadly this isnt the issue, the issue is the bots plaguing the game and over saturating the AH. There needs to be a fix for THAT first, then they can work on this.

Can barber players too, but has only one hairdo available - Skinhead. (this would be a joke)

or how about a "Farmer" class, which can also grow mats for cooking and such.

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Originally Posted by TaalAzura

or how about a "Farmer" class, which can also grow mats for cooking and such.

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This would be a cool addition to the housing system when it comes.
Growing stuff on your own little plot of land.

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Originally Posted by Airget

I was bored and wrote down a quick idea of how they could make a DoL based on Shepard that I think would be fun to play lol.

Shepard:
Main tool:Skinning Knife

Sub tool:Aetherial Glove

Skinning Knife gathers skins/furs parts available off a dead corpse

Aetherial gloves uses life force to extract products of a creature like milk, secretion or even fresh eyes

Skills:
Animal Scent:Allows player to detect footprints

Detect:Allows user to continue path of footprint if going in right direction 50 GP

Observe: Searches for Corpse in circular radius around user 100 GP

Gather Rate effects the amount of footprints needed to find the corpse

Perception increases the radius of observe when used

Basiscally finding a node comes in steps.

Step 1 you find a footprint. Upon finding it you are under the effect of that footprint and follow the direction you are told to go in, depending on lv you will be given an idea of the distance between you and the next footprint

Step 2-? Use Detect to find additional footprints for the footprint you are currently locked on. You repeat this process until you are given a message like "The corpse is close by" upon seeing the last footprint

Step 3 Use observe to search around you to find the corpse and upon finding you have two options.
--Shepard would have two stances, Skinning stance, and Aetherial Stance. Said stance would determine which tool you use when gathering off the target corpse.--

Step 4 you go into either stance and gather off the target. Once done the corpse disappears and a new footprint(s) will be in the zone in which you can identity.

--Footprints would have unique artwork to them so the user would be able to tell which animal they are seeking as long as they have proper skill in identifying the animal they are seeking out--

--So if you find a footprint but it's not the animal you want you can skip it and find a new footprint til you find the one you want to seek out.

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Posted this on another topic the other day, my thought was they could also obtain other pieces of materials that aren't skins like fluids, milk and parts of the body, rather than just be a skinner they could pretty much gain everything that can only be gained via battle classes atm.

I know they're adding gardening of some kind to grow Ghysal greens and chocobo breeding. I doubt you can grow other plants, need a BTN for those.

Get dat Monster Hunter armor going on.

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Originally Posted by tymora

I shall call it "Shepherd"
- Shaves Sheep for fleece, Snurbles for fur.
- Locates all animals you can put a shaver on.

Fleece problem solved~

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Tanaka wanted to add that in an update along with other classes, will Yoshi will never know, though if other MMOs have a class like that we'll get it.

I like this idea! That way a crafter can survive with gathering classes and not need a battle class to farm things like skins/fur/horns/fluids.

Excellent thoughts!

With all the neckbeards available for trimming, people will be 50 in no time!

Though I hate to wonder what will be crafted from it all...

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Originally Posted by TheMoonflow

How about "bot catcher"
It can be like pokemon, everytime you find a bot, you gotta capture it

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"Gotta catch'em all, Bot-é-mon!" :)

Why not instead of Shepherd, which seems to not really fit, why not make a node hunting class like min/bot called Trapper. The nodes would then be trapped already dead beast. I don't see them making us take the knife to their throats, and I can think of only a few mobs that wouldn't kill us on sight if we tried to bo-peep them. Trapper fits the vibe of the game.

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Originally Posted by TaalAzura

or how about a "Farmer" class, which can also grow mats for cooking and such.

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This or gardener would be cool, and something that we could do in our housing areas. Although so many of the food items are already gathered by Botany, so it might be kind of redundant.