A little disappointed in high-level botany

[Aronos]

I never levelled botany to make money, I plan on taking all jobs to 50 and I like the idea of gathering the materials for my other jobs myself. That being said, I'm surprised at how useless all but the Crawler Cocoons and Vampire Plants are. I'm sure prices fluctuate on every server, but every single item available to farm at level 50 BOT is worth less than 700g at HQ and that's only the two items previously mentioned.

Obviously prices are determined by the community and what people are willing to spend on them but clearly the demand is severely lower than the supply. Whatever recipes require high level gathering materials, clearly have very little value or don't require enough of said gathering materials. Knowing this, it's a little disheartening to know that a level 50 job I have is more or less useless aside from the needs of my own jobs. It also gives me little faith in the idea of leveling mining as well due to the fact that it probably isn't much different at level 50.

[DukeBurden]

I haven't reached level 50 yet. I'm leveling kind of slow believe it or not even after the update. I'm working on my achievements for my gold axe! Anyways, I've read that at level 50 the only things worth farming are those said items and stuff commonly used in the leves such as flax and certain logs. Doesn't seem like much money is to be made from a gathering job but I enjoy it for now and will find stuff to attempt to make money on. Also, I've read that a lot of money can be made from shards and crystals but that's kind of lame to have such a high level gathering job and go for level 25 items. :/

[Kherza]

The problem is over saturation of the market. This is something SE wanted to prevent but it happened anyway due to poor planning. Getting 3-5 items per node swing at lvl 50 is WAY too much. Basically the demand for these materials by crafters is vastly overshadowed by the supply from Gatherers (both MIN and BTN). SE has said they will make more recipes for the lower level material gathers but I for one hope they add a lot more for the higher levels as well with more items needed for one craft. Crawler cocoons are the best as OP mentioned and you only need 4 for one lvl 50 craft. 4 cocoons is nothing when I can get 25 from one node, and that's just one person. 25 cocoons times all these gatherers results in a filled up market board. Naturally you could go the other route for 15 NQ and 3HQ (potential for more) but either way results in way too many items and too low of a demand.

[ntall1]

Here is an idea.... How about use these mats in gear that lvl 50's might actually wear... and the demand for them will go up. If these mats were used in recipes to make gear that players would wear at lvl 50, ppl would want, and buy them.

Want to know what mats to sell for massive profit? Just look for the nodes and mobs with teleporting bots flying around them.

[KariArisu]

You're doing it wrong.

Most of the profit is not on the 50 items. Find an item that is used in a craft and gather the hell out of it. Culinarian items are amazing to gather since they actively need materials.

[Bufkus]

Vampire plants have a value? I thought it was just crawler cocoons and spruce logs.

[Dean86]

The lvl 50 star items and clusters. Only one node spawns on the map? at mor?

[Dean86]

I was expecting you just run from tree to tree etc to get items. however the current system is v bad. You have to wait around for a node to spawn. There's no point when you can run a dungeon and r 30k rather than wait how long to a node that will give a few clusters or whatever.

[Dean86]

How do you get 25 from 1 node?

[Kherza]

How do you get 25 from 1 node?

Swing once to unlock the slotted item. Then use Yield+2 ability (ex. King's Yield II). This makes every hit after give you 5 items instead of 3. 5 hits times 5 items per equals 25 items total.