Botanist Level 45 --- And Beyond! -- Why?

Hello,

I hope this has not already been discussed to death. I looked but could not see a useful post on this subject.

I am presently Botanist 41 and I am wondering: What is the direct benefit of continuing to level to 45 (or 50).

-- There are no new skills to be had.
-- I can already log the highest level trees available (Iron Lake -- Level 5 for example)
-- I know if Level 6 nodes become available, doing 45-50 will be MUCH faster then than doing it now with Level 5 nodes.

This is of course excluding achievement awards.
Also excluding the ability to wear new gear.

Is there any other tangible benefit?


Thank you.

If you get all 3 gather classes to 50 you get a title...

And you can use Luminary tools.

Other than that no, there isn't any benefit but now you can gather moar.

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Originally Posted by Asiaine

Hello,

I hope this has not already been discussed to death. I looked but could not see a useful post on this subject.

I am presently Botanist 41 and I am wondering: What is the direct benefit of continuing to level to 45 (or 50).

-- There are no new skills to be had.
-- I can already log the highest level trees available (Iron Lake -- Level 5 for example)
-- I know if Level 6 nodes become available, doing 45-50 will be MUCH faster then than doing it now with Level 5 nodes.

This is of course excluding achievement awards.
Also excluding the ability to wear new gear.

Is there any other tangible benefit?


Thank you.

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if you mine for mats and not to lvl you'll hit 50 sooner or later anyway. Its not worth the grind just to do it. Also as i stated somewhere else the fastest way to lvl DoL at that point is ifrit.

im a miner so i said miner even though you are btn, sorry

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Originally Posted by syntaxlies

the fastest way to lvl DoL at that point is ifrit.

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Um, what? Please elaborate lol.

I think you've pretty much said it. Excluding the ability to wear new gear, which may help stats to get more resources with less time, I don't believe there's a tangible.

The way I started to look at gathering. Leveling is a side effect of getting the resources you need or want to profit from.

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Originally Posted by JackDaniels

Um, what? Please elaborate lol.

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Kill Ifrit and or Moogles. Change class to desired DoH/L. Talk to NPC and get exp.

To get about 100,000 exp on a DoL over 45 would take about 500 gathering successes. Or about 20 Primal wins.

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Originally Posted by syntaxlies

the fastest way to lvl DoL at that point is ifrit

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If you've got the anima i'd beg to differ. @45+ you can finish both leve's for a camp in less than 5 minutes. Even without Guardian's Aspect, you'll still get about 6k in just leve completion xp (then throw actual successful gathering xp in there for more) which is more than Ifrit/Moogle reward. Plus you know, free mats and free money.

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Originally Posted by Sephrick

Kill Ifrit and or Moogles. Change class to desired DoH/L. Talk to NPC and get exp.

To get about 100,000 exp on a DoL over 45 would take about 500 gathering successes. Or about 20 Primal wins.

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I think when I reach such a level in crafting, I will need to get one (or both) of these fights down.

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Originally Posted by Laorik

If you've got the anima i'd beg to differ. @45+ you can finish both leve's for a camp in less than 5 minutes. Even without Guardian's Aspect, you'll still get about 6k in just leve completion xp (then throw actual successful gathering xp in there for more) which is more than Ifrit/Moogle reward. Plus you know, free mats and free money.

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who ever has the anima. if your gonna lvl on leves your anima will not last too long. and no you can finish 2 leves in less then 5 mins, that's exaggerating a bit. After lvl 45, leves are better then grinding though, i just dont need to rush miner to 50 and prefer to lvl while im doing moogle and ifrit since im doing it anyway.

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Originally Posted by syntaxlies

who ever has the anima. if your gonna lvl on leves your anima will not last too long. and no you can finish 2 leves in less then 5 mins, that's exaggerating a bit. After lvl 45, leves are better then grinding though, i just dont need to rush miner to 50 and prefer to lvl while im doing moogle and ifrit since im doing it anyway.

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Fine, lets go with 10 minutes. Regardless, when I grab two new leves I'm waiting 5 minutes on my return timer from the last batch of leves. And the anima will last pretty long. 50 anima is 100 leves... I'm not saying you should rush to 50, I'm just saying that Ifrit is NOT the fastest way to level it if people do want to grind to 50.

Ya xp is much faster on leves, set home point to halitali, get leves at hali, once leves complete final node appears have it take you to drybone, choco/gobbue back to uldah, return, 0 anima used and take you about 15-20 minutes round trip including doing leves, and since moogle and ifrit you need to wait 15 minutes before re enter and you get less xp per time. leves are clearly faster.

Also with leves you are guaranteed an item.. Not like Ifrit/Moogle where you will only get Dark matter.
And you get faction points which can be used as well.. WIN WIN!

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Originally Posted by Laorik

Fine, lets go with 10 minutes. Regardless, when I grab two new leves I'm waiting 5 minutes on my return timer from the last batch of leves. And the anima will last pretty long. 50 anima is 100 leves... I'm not saying you should rush to 50, I'm just saying that Ifrit is NOT the fastest way to level it if people do want to grind to 50.

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True, but if you are intending on fighting Ifrit/Moggle anyway... may as well make good use of that exp that pops from every win!