gathering needs an exp. boost

[Tercino]

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it needs to stay how it is, economy is fucked as it is with mats, would be fooked even harder if people didn't have to go through the grind.

Depends on where you look. For example, I recently went through the walnut phase on BTN. It's actually cheaper to buy walnut logs than shards, despite them being harder to get, purely because people gather a ton of walnut for xp. Increasing the xp would mean less people flooding the market with low level mats.

[Jynxii]

Depends on where you look. For example, I recently went through the walnut phase on BTN. It's actually cheaper to buy walnut logs than shards, despite them being harder to get, purely because people gather a ton of walnut for xp. Increasing the xp would mean less people flooding the market with low level mats.

It wouldn't have something to do with the fact that you need X amount of shards in order to even attempt crafting anything, where Walnut Logs are used for very specific items, especially in their unrefined state.

The only reason shards are as low as they are (arguably still quite pricey) is because you have botters going for extended periods of time gathering nothing but shards. There are always 3-4 retainers that have 5,000+ shards on the Market Board at any given time, and that is just for one shard type! It devalues the time of the honest farmers gathering shards to turn over for gil, but you still make a healthy bit of gil none the less.

[Ruminate]

Depends on where you look. For example, I recently went through the walnut phase on BTN. It's actually cheaper to buy walnut logs than shards, despite them being harder to get, purely because people gather a ton of walnut for xp. Increasing the xp would mean less people flooding the market with low level mats.

The market is flooded with even more dirt cheap high level mats, despite the fact that there are less high level gatherers. Even if you gather an item 1 level higher for more XP, you still need to do it over 800 times just to go from 39 to 40. I'm sure itll get even worse the closer I get to 50.

[Felis]

Depends on where you look. For example, I recently went through the walnut phase on BTN. It's actually cheaper to buy walnut logs than shards, despite them being harder to get, purely because people gather a ton of walnut for xp. Increasing the xp would mean less people flooding the market with low level mats.

There is a leve in gridania where you can turn in 3 times the walnut logs. Give you a lot extra exp and some gil. Of course only if you level up carpenter with your botanist.


About quests for gatherer, you can get the exp reward from side quests and story quests also for your gatherer class. Just switch to your gatherer class before you talk to the NPC to get your reward.