Confused About Collectables

[Alexiell]

So far the only collectable items i found were from unspoiled nodes. There are some in Coerthas Western Highlands and Dravanian Forelands so I think they can be found with lvl 50 already, with 51 it works for sure. However, its possible that you need a flying mount to reach some of them. Note that unlike the hidden nodes from ARR, these new ones last for only 1hr, so you have to hurry if you wanna gather from them and its another reason to get a flying mount first.
For example Yellow Copper Ore is collectable and can be mined between 12 and 1 in CWH (not sure if PM or/and AM).
However, apparently you wont get blue scrips until you are at a higher level. You can get some nice extra exp though.

how it works:
- first you need to reveal the item with Toil of the Mountaineer or by clicking the correct slot (its the second slot in this case)
- then make sure you have the skill Collector's Glove activated so it lets you gather Collectables and not normal items.
- when you click on the ore, a new window will open that shows the item's Wear and Rarity (similar to Durability and Quality when crafting)
- now you can use the new Appraisal skills to increase the Rarity (Quality) of the item. This will also increase the item's Wear AND it will decrease your gathering attempts by 1!
- you can do this until you reach the maximum Wear (30/30), if you go past that, it will decrease your chance to gather the item (you can use your normal gatherer skills to increase the gathering chance, but it doesnt seem to work after exceeding the maximum Wear)
- when you are happy with your rarity (the NPC in Mor Dhona accepts only items above a certain Rarity, the higher the more rewards) you can use your remaining gathering attempts to collect one or more items.

One more tip: If you gather something useless, either because the npc doesnt want it or the rarity is too low, you can right click and "Lower Quality" to turn the collectable into a normal NQ item.