Gathering Skills or GP need adjustments.

[Kyana]

I agree that the GP system requires some adjustments.
Same with some of the skills.

For example:
Brunt Force and Deep Vigor.
In a system where you can get to a maximum of chain #3 on normal nodes and chain #4 on nodes with +1 gathering attempt, a skill which grants you 100% success on your 6th gathering attempt (chain #5) is useless.
You would have to use Ageless Words or Solid Reason (both 250GP) 2 times on a normal node, just to be able to get a 100% gathering attempt.
It's much easier to just activate Unearth and Sharp Vision to get 100% success rate AND higher HQ chance for 4-5 gathering attempts instead of just 1 or 2.

Ward skills:
While they are ok for farming clusters, the ammount of crystals and shards is too low for the GP cost.

And don't lie to yourself thinking SE tries to control the economy or the ammount of materials that way.
If they would care about that, they would do something about the bots and hack-users who flood the market with crystals, shards and any other material.
It doesn't matter if a bot can farm 500 or 1000 shards per hour because they gathered 24/7 for months now, and just one of these bots running for 1 week could farm ~120k shards (~1 node every 20s, teleporting between nodes).


Increase GP per gathering attempt from 5 to 10.
Chance Brunt Force/Deep Vigor to chain #2 and only one use per node.
Increase the number of crystals gathered with a ward skill to +3 and the number of shards to +5 with a passive buff of the skill at level 45 (so low level farming bots can't take advantage of the skill).

[Frost_Trunks]

Increase GP per gathering attempt from 5 to 10.

Not a bad idea. I think the wait time is kind of annoying myself too. I am relatively new to gathering, and just last week discovered cordial potions. Very useful in leve quests in a pinch.

I think the regen should be a little faster. It would just allow me to get things done a little quicker.

My biggest peeve is that my GP is at 0 when I switch to the jobs. Would be nice if it started out at full. I understand this would cause a problem with people switching in the field to replenish their GP, but maybe limit this to only functioning while in a sanctuary. Something. It's just annoying. If I am just going out to gather materials it's not so bad, but when I need GP for leve quests it would be nice to see it regen a little quicker. But then again, maybe it would make leve quests too easy?

[Dakre]

My biggest peeve is that my GP is at 0 when I switch to the jobs. Would be nice if it started out at full. I understand this would cause a problem with people switching in the field to replenish their GP, but maybe limit this to only functioning while in a sanctuary. Something. It's just annoying. If I am just going out to gather materials it's not so bad, but when I need GP for leve quests it would be nice to see it regen a little quicker. But then again, maybe it would make leve quests too easy?

I could get behind that, but instead I would suggest just make regen increase while in a city like gridania. This would let people switch and gather gp faster, and if someone wants to wait in town for the boost in regen, they could.

[HEC]

Brunt Force and Deep Vigor.
In a system where you can get to a maximum of chain #3 on normal nodes and chain #4 on nodes with +1 gathering attempt, a skill which grants you 100% success on your 6th gathering attempt (chain #5) is useless.

This is clearly meant to be used (only) on unspoiled nodes - so it's not useless but not extra usable either.

[donlep]

This is clearly meant to be used (only) on unspoiled nodes - so it's not useless but not extra usable either.

if its meant to only be used on unspoiled node's it should be a lvl 50 ability...
when i got it i was like oh this is nice, then i looked at it again and thought wtf do i need this for...

[Dakre]

if its meant to only be used on unspoiled node's it should be a lvl 50 ability...
when i got it i was like oh this is nice, then i looked at it again and thought wtf do i need this for...

You can also use it on quests, which helps. Just a bit, but it helps.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Should of scaled the gp regen with your level and scaled the gp you recieve with each swing as you level. Also why cant you still get the gp if you miss not really a big deal. The cost of abilities is way too high either increase the gp we recieve or reduce ability cost.

[Frost_Trunks]

My biggest peeve is that my GP is at 0 when I switch to the jobs. Would be nice if it started out at full.

Haha 2.15 patch FTW ;-)