blessed pickaxe impossible to get?

One of my goals in 3.4 was to get BTN and MIN nodes all gathered (checkbox by gathering log).

Luckily that put me 3 items away from the BTN tool achievement (and 6 types of seeds were added at lvl 15), but zero new nodes were added for mining.

What gives? Seven more new mining items will need to be added to unlock the new pickaxe. If we have to wait until 3.55 for that, lol.

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Originally Posted by Duuude007

One of my goals in 3.4 was to get BTN and MIN nodes all gathered (checkbox by gathering log).

Luckily that put me 3 items away from the BTN tool achievement (and 6 types of seeds were added at lvl 15), but zero new nodes were added for mining.

What gives? Seven more new mining items will need to be added to unlock the new pickaxe. If we have to wait until 3.55 for that, lol.

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same problem here... I gathered every single item in the log and I'm at 153/160, I even gathered all favor and ephemereal items

i have 460/460 unique fish already for I Caught That V but the achievement still sorts as 'Incomplete' and Jonathas doesn't want to have a chat about it.

you need to get 1 more new fish i think

It is impossible to get the Miner achievement at the moment. SE knows about the "Blessed" achievement problems and hopefully will address them ASAP.

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Originally Posted by Duuude007

Seven more new mining items will need to be added to unlock the new pickaxe.

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Originally Posted by ServerCollaps

I gathered every single item in the log and I'm at 153/160

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It is indeed impossible to reach the required 160 items for mining at the moment.

However, I am personally at 154/160, so the two of you are missing an item somewhere.

Botany is certainly annoying, I am one short 229/230 if I remember correctly, and the only things left to gather are the 3 or 4 new 3*** you need 860 gather to touch. It's looking very chicken-and-egg. I'll hope that is a mistake they will fix as well. seems odd you'd just need one rather than all of them.

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Originally Posted by XiXiQ

Botany is certainly annoying, I am one short 229/230 if I remember correctly, and the only things left to gather are the 3 or 4 new 3*** you need 860 gather to touch. It's looking very chicken-and-egg. I'll hope that is a mistake they will fix as well. seems odd you'd just need one rather than all of them.

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whats wrong about 3 star items? there are 235 items in total, so you can skip some folklore things

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Originally Posted by ServerCollaps

whats wrong about 3 star items? there are 235 items in total, so you can skip some folklore things

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nothing is wrong with them, it's just that the amount of gather you need to get the tool means you need a tool with the same stats to get a tool with the same stats :) It's a bit silly, but I'd not put it past them to have meant to do it. OR they meant to count everything BUT those new 3***. With the figures wrong, it could go either way. I don't know what they were aiming for, to include those particular items or not.

people only use the blessed tools for glamour anyway, because the stats are awful

As I am sure you are all aware, the hotfix notes covered this issue. They recognize it exists, it is not fixed yet, and they ask for our patience.

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Originally Posted by ServerCollaps

people only use the blessed tools for glamour anyway, because the stats are awful

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The way I see it, these achievement tools are merely another way of obtaining i200 MH tools. I've long since crafted my i195 MH/OH tools, along with the rest of my i190 gear, and melded it all besides, but I can certainly see a use for an up-and-coming Miner/Botanist (at least once they get the Miner issue resolved).

The stats are the same as the already existing i200 - best in slot until you try melding the crafted gear.

SO i was trying to get the Mining Axe today and when i was @ 123/160. i counter that i have 29 more items to find. but when i finished my Mining Log. i was stuck @ 152. so its some of the items in the 51-60 +r folklore nodes that arnt being counted.

Do you need some folklore items to hit the 230 on BTN?

yes you do need the folklore

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Originally Posted by Roth_Trailfinder

The way I see it, these achievement tools are merely another way of obtaining i200 MH tools. I've long since crafted my i195 MH/OH tools, along with the rest of my i190 gear, and melded it all besides, but I can certainly see a use for an up-and-coming Miner/Botanist (at least once they get the Miner issue resolved).

The stats are the same as the already existing i200 - best in slot until you try melding the crafted gear.

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Exactly. Not everyone will be looking at these with an eye to glamour. They are still very good stats for an up-and-coming gatherer.

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Originally Posted by Eight

Do you need some folklore items to hit the 230 on BTN?

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You actually need 231 for Botanist. At 230 it'll show you've achieved it, but it's really 231 before you can get the new tool.

They fixed that with the last hotfix, as well as fixing the crafting ones. If you already have the required number for the achievement, you just need to go gather/craft anything and it will unlock now. Mining is still borked since there aren't enough items to actually get the achievement at all right now.

If you collected all 154 nodes before today's hot fix, seems you still can't get the blessed pickaxe. I think we won't be able to get the pickaxe, unless SE add more items before 4.x in that case.

EDIT: You can get it if you just collect any item you gathered before.

I thought those tools were the glowing ones in the trailer, but I just got the miner achievement and the tool doesn't glow. :(
I am disappointed now. >_<"

Haven't quite gathered enough to get the miner or botany tools, but from what I've heard, they only glow when actively being used, not just when equipped.

this is correct - they only glow when being used. even the sit macro doesn't make them glow cause you're still not using it to gather.

Probably just better to get the crafted set, lol

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Originally Posted by XiXiQ

Botany is certainly annoying, I am one short 229/230 if I remember correctly, and the only things left to gather are the 3 or 4 new 3*** you need 860 gather to touch. It's looking very chicken-and-egg. I'll hope that is a mistake they will fix as well. seems odd you'd just need one rather than all of them.

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Were you able to finish this without the 3-star stuff? I am stuck here as well. Wondering if something that's checked didn't register for some reason.

Finished both miner and botanist achievement the last days and I did not do the 3 star 60 nodes, so you wont need them for it. (At least I dont have those folklore 3 stars not sure if there are other ones) I am not that good with stats so those tools are nice for me.

I figured the botanist could finish it without the 60 3-stars since I finished it with the miner. What I can't figure out is why everything in my botany log is checked yet I'm stuck at 229/230.

It glows when you are using it only ;; like, mine glow when I am fishing/mining/chopping something up lol

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Originally Posted by Mortaneus

Were you able to finish this without the 3-star stuff?

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No, in all cases -btn, min and fish-, you need the 3*** stats.

This is a typical pattern though (craft as well), to make/gather the highest gear, you need the highest gear. Makes you wonder what the point is.

for example - by the time I have done enough fishing to get this tool, there'll be little point in continuing to fish.

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Originally Posted by Alleo

Finished both miner and botanist achievement the last days and I did not do the 3 star 60 nodes

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hmm, now I'm wondering what I am missing, stuck on 229 for BTN, only things left to collect are the 3*** ones. Have collected in the diadem, but that doesn't seem to count towards the stats. I never did any favours though, they don't seem to be listed anywhere either, so I am assuming they don't count either.

Well all I can say is that I am far away from having a very good gear on my gatherers (the highest items are still 0% for me) so it cant be that you need them. And if you are at 229/230 and still have all 3 stars open it must be something else or you would have a lower number there. (Not sure how many 3 stars the BTN has but its definitely more than one) Folklore are counting in this and all the stuff you get from those other special nodes that will spawn after you gathered some other nodes. (Sorry not 100% sure what they are called in English)

I think that I never did all the favors so they should not count in this. So if you have done everything else, than this is mostly a bug.

I did have another look, BTN is 229/230 with all nodes done (including ephemeral and folklore), all that I can see left are the ones marked 3***. Must have looked at the list 10 times, it is all checked off

miner looks like it can be done without any 3*** (just). I am missing the final book, but it does look like if you gather everything except the 3*** you will just make 150.

That's a big mistake/bug, a very wide gap in gearing requirements for each.

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Originally Posted by XiXiQ

No, in all cases -btn, min and fish-, you need the 3*** stats.

This is a typical pattern though (craft as well), to make/gather the highest gear, you need the highest gear. Makes you wonder what the point is.

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full ilvl 170, no overmelds, no big money investment, 860+ gathering, hf

http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/YP1E

Well it must be a bug because I am not able to gather at 3 Star nodes and yet I have that tool thanks to the achievement. Also it would be kinda unfair if you dont need them with the miner but have to gather them with the botanist. (IMO I find the fisher way worse than those two..seeing how much more fishes you need and how RNG it can be..with my luck I will have that one sometimes in 4.0 after the release of better tools)

Better tools won't help. As an example, consider your stats at 60 to your stats at 50. Are the ARR Big Fish any easier to catch? Nope ...

Fishing older fishes will not help with better tools thats true, but you need certain numbers to even gather/catch something. In the end it was more of a little complain that thanks to RNG it might be a long time till I have that achievement, unlike the botanist and miner one. Well at least I always wanted to catch one of each fish, so it kinda goes hand in hand.

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Originally Posted by ServerCollaps

full ilvl 170, no overmelds, no big money investment, 860+ gathering, hf

http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/YP1E

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Where's the fun in that?

I mean the only thing I really spend gil on is blowing materia up. Full disclosure: I have even occasionally overmelded with Vs.