gathering in nature

[Mightyg]

I'm a Fighter not a lover; Can't I keep a gathering tool equipped along with my weapon of choice?

Would be nice not to have to overhaul all the gear, tools, traits and abilities when I happen to pass by a mine while exploring.

[Kestiel]

Forgot a few things that came to mind.

Why can't we mark our maps for gathering locations? Even if we can't in general do this (we really should be able to have a comprehensive set of tools to customize our map, draw on it even, set markers without a limit, etc) can the scanning abilities at least temporarily place markers on our maps?

As an addition to the above, it would seem as an accomplished Botanist or Miner (especially Botanist) we should be able to tell if a tree is Ash, Walnut, Willow, Cedar, Elm, Mahogany, Pine very easily. All the graphics for the trees run together, is there any plans to change this?

If we can't get an update to tree graphics to represent the specific type of tree, could we at least get markets on our map and minimap that denote what the trees without a 400yalm radius of us are?

And going off the above again.

If we have a minimap for animals, and NPCs and other locations, why can't DOLs have minimaps and scannable areas on the map (like FFXI RNG Widescan perhaps) that we can scan or search and be able to tell which node is up and what that node is?

An example would be to open the map as Miner, scan and then see that there are 7 nodes within a 400yalm radius, 4 of them are currently gatherable (not exhausted) and by mousing over or moving the gamepad/arrowkeys to the various markers we could see that one node is an iron vein, the other two are silver/jade veins and the last one is a precious stone vein. DOLs are already abused as it is with double fatigue and having to run through gauntlets of aggro higher up and leves that take us all over the world and are little more than anima burning. We could really use some things to keep our sanity on the grind to cap.

[Kiote]

I'm a Fighter not a lover; Can't I keep a gathering tool equipped along with my weapon of choice?
Would be nice not to have to overhaul all the gear, tools, traits and abilities when I happen to pass by a mine while exploring.

That would destroy our classes.. please refrain from pushing this agenda..