This is insulting to DoL.

[TheVedis]

No one is saying its impossible, and there are certainly pockets of nodes that are aggro-free, but on the whole, that is CLEARLY not the case. Please stop trying to defend a clear oversight on the part of the devs that falls straight on the border of incompetence to place an incredible amount of aggro mobs around gathering locations without first providing respite in the form of stealth or de-aggro abilities.

Now for some points that your singular, tired Iron Lake anecdote fails to address: what if people want to mine/harvest something other than pine/oak or iron/mythril? What if people want to farm different grade 5 gemstones or crafting mats? What if people want guild marks which can now only be obtained in the city where the guild is, but simply can't because of new mob placement in areas that aren't as tranquil as Iron Lake? Not to mention node placement and ability to rotate nodes with other DoL points seems to have changed as well, so you have to run further to cycle through nodes if a single one is blocked by aggro.

Please stop trying to defend this indefensible action on the part of the devs and try to understand the problem others are having with this, thanks.

actualy, its other way around
there are pockets of nodes that are now agro heavy
and those few nodes are what a majority of people are mad about

granted, leves arent nice in some areas because of it(hala leves are unaffected)

iron lake as a whole is barely affected by it too(have any of you seriously even gone out there? i know it was pretty much unused before)


yes there is an issue with wanting specific mats, thats always been an issue, and im sure people will find solutions to it too

though in the case of most...you can always go down a grade to get them and take the sp hit...thats an option

[Hayden]

I agree it is a little frustrating. I haven't ran into any of this yet as I am still mostly mining around Wells, but I can feel your frustration.

Perhaps 1.19 will address this issue? We do have one thing to be happy about as DOL'ers. The SP boost was MUCH needed. It's almost double from what I can tell. Mining has never been better!

Here's hoping this issue is resolved swiftly.

[AndrewN]

I haven't done any gathering since 1.18, but I have noticed that a number of leves in Ul'dah was tricky because Daddy Long-legs could be camping the nodes and Mossy was running around the lower section. Looks like things are even better now

[LuxLex]

gatherers should be able to gather without changing to a DoW/DoM class

[Kyant]

they added some mobs in, and then doubled sp. There aren't mobs on all gathering leves. Get the ones w/o mobs and then get the rest of your leves for something else, or take a friend along to help deal with them. SE mentioned that they want to team up gatherers and fighters during leves, as a type of escort.

[TheVedis]

they added some mobs in, and then doubled sp. There aren't mobs on all gathering leves. Get the ones w/o mobs and then get the rest of your leves for something else, or take a friend along to help deal with them. SE mentioned that they want to team up gatherers and fighters during leves, as a type of escort.

sp was definately NOT doubledm it was however around a 30% boost

[Kyant]

sp was definately NOT doubledm it was however around a 30% boost

maybe it is different depending on what rank you are. I'm at r20 and it went up way more than thirty percent. If not doubled, then at least 80% increase... but maybe that is just for around my rank.

[TheVedis]

maybe it is different depending on what rank you are. I'm at r20 and it went up way more than thirty percent. If not doubled, then at least 80% increase... but maybe that is just for around my rank.

that may be possible, imposible for me to test since all my stuff is 40+

[Bayohne]

Checked with the devs about there being NMs and other high-level enemies near gathering points for certain levequests such as those found in "Mining Treespeak." Gathering point, and monster placement adjustments will both take place soon. We will also be making adjustments to some of the Halatali and Camp Iron Lake levequests where there exist similar problems.

[HiirNoivl]

Sweet Deal!