Wnere are all the farmers?

Do ya remember back in the day with ffxi, we used to farm stuff like crawlers for silk threads, bees for beehive chips, sheep for sheep skin, and so many others.

But when I look back at all the time I spent leveling and gathering all my stuff for crafting, seemed like 90% of the stuff is from gathering nodes.

I've often see people mining/harvesting/fishing, but I very rarely see people actually farming monsters in this game.

Where are all the farmers?

Where were you when Fleece was all the rage? :O

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Originally Posted by Dimitrias

Do ya remember back in the day with ffxi, we used to farm stuff like crawlers for silk threads, bees for beehive chips, sheep for sheep skin, and so many others.

But when I look back at all the time I spent leveling and gathering all my stuff for crafting, seemed like 90% of the stuff is from gathering nodes.

I've often see people mining/harvesting/fishing, but I very rarely see people actually farming monsters in this game.

Where are all the farmers?

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The lack of rare world drops from trash mobs in the world doesn't really give players a reason to farm anything in the world. Basically send retainers out on normal ventures to gather that trash for you. I hope in the expansion they decide to introduce some horizontal progression and add world drops to trash in the open world so it gives players something to work towards instead of everything being walled behind an instanced dungeon or duty finder queue.

Required crafting items that are dropped by monsters are fairly rare, and they tend to become obsolete fairly quickly. I know that I had to farm Diremite Silk as well as Fleece and Snurble Tufts for a while when I was levelling my WVR, but other than that there weren't many monster-dropped mats that I couldn't buy off the AH for <100 gil each. Everything else I needed I farmed up on a gatherer job, or already had plenty in my inventory from getting a DoM job to 50 (Just from random drops/kills along the way).

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Originally Posted by Teslo

Required crafting items that are dropped by monsters are fairly rare, and they tend to become obsolete fairly quickly. I know that I had to farm Diremite Silk as well as Fleece and Snurble Tufts for a while when I was levelling my WVR, but other than that there weren't many monster-dropped mats that I couldn't buy off the AH for <100 gil each. Everything else I needed I farmed up on a gatherer job, or already had plenty in my inventory from getting a DoM job to 50 (Just from random drops/kills along the way).

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I farm them myself. Got a feeling most of those fleece sellers are RMT bots.

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Originally Posted by Bishop81

I farm them myself. Got a feeling most of those fleece sellers are RMT bots.

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Yeah, I did the same thing. I'm talking about the little items like Goobue fangs or sinews.

Well,
- se changed drop rates and amounts from monsters
* i.e diremites usually drop more webs every few or so. 3-7 webs per 2-3 kills.
- the materials are kinda old in a sense so they r only valued for lower old recipes

- retainers happened

To farm Diremite Web just do Toto-Rak 2 or 3 times.

I remember spending a few minutes watching bots farm diremites last year.

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Originally Posted by Felis

To farm Diremite Web just do Toto-Rak 2 or 3 times.

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Or tamtara hm or anywhere else that has any spiders/scorpions/etc...

I basically ran stuff normally and got a ton of mats and then some just by that for leveling my crafters. And at times even complete random players would stop by and just ask me if I want any of the mats they had on them for no charge. They said I'd junk them one way or another so saw you here and passing it on to you.

The items are available on the marketboard for rock bottom prices, whereas the actual mob drop rates are rather low. Farming them is simply not worthy of the invested time. If anything, you're better off simply gathering certain nodes in the meantime, sell that, and buy the item you wish. Although obviously even gathering nodes isn't so much the most profitable way to spend time in this game.

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Originally Posted by Felis

To farm Diremite Web just do Toto-Rak 2 or 3 times.

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It would make no sense. In time it takes to run Toto-Rak once (and get 10 webs if you are lucky) you could get full stack or even two stacks of web by farming.

I do not relly use diremite webs any more, but I farm my fleece (usually just one stack) and make my retainer get snurble tufts, raptor sinew and the like.

the only world drops really worth farming are snurble tufts and fleece, and that's usually just because they're used for making the green quality crafter body pieces and the easy-to-spiritbind Patrician's Gear.
And if you've been to the common spawn points for those mobs, you realize why SE wants to avoid adding these types of things. Having mob drops with value attracts bots.