Botany makes me question my self worth.

[Tirocupidus]

At the end of the day week I'm bored and feeling like I've accomplished nothing since all I've done is run around the same 4-5 trees gathering crystals and pigments that I have no use for and everything else is on hold until I can start gathering oak wood.

Then gather stuff you have use for. Most recently, I gathered lots of yew and gil buns, and I'll use most or all of it. Or research the market a little, and find something(s) that will turn a nice profit.

Edit: Also, Fieldcraft leves aren't just about the final xp reward—you will likely get a good chunk of xp while accomplishing it. Leve nodes allow you to gather up to 6 times, in my experience, which means better chain bonuses if you don't fail.

[geekgirl101]

Then gather stuff you have use for. Most recently, I gathered lots of yew and gil buns, and I'll use most or all of it. Or research the market a little, and find something(s) that will turn a nice profit.

Barely anything makes a good profit these days. All the pigments were just vendor trash since they were going for only 1g each on the market. It's much harder to find anything worthwhile too when there are no trees that give any wood or anything valuable until you can move onto the next grade, like levels 25-30 the only item worthwhile is crystals for crafting as all the trees for those levels only give either shards, crystals, pigment or grade 2 carbonized matter. I didn't look into what vegetation patches gave so I may have done better farming those instead but I decided wind crystals might be more important later on so I did nothing but farm those. I now have over 300 of them.