Quote Originally Posted by Solipse View Post
At one point I had about 50 mil sitting in my bank.
I don't NEED to do botany or mining.
Gathering jobs have nothing at all to do with crafting. Zip. Nada. Zilch. If you think gathering should have an effect on crafting, you are living in dreamland. They're not even in the same class categories.
Oh to save these gems for posterity and see your face in the future. Look around. This ain't a bubble economy any more. A carpenter and alchemist with botany outright kicks your ass and runs circles around you. The ONLY reason you EVER amounted to anything is because you had an early level spread on those who did gather at the start. Now they've all grown up and are essentially better versions of you. I've done it to a ton of BS and GS'ers who did the same thing you did. They rode the bubble, made their early millions, then RAGED when I came right up behind them and steamrolled them with HQ mat support that they ran out of.

Your warehouse will run dry. People will stop giving you materials. Without access to mats, your quality is poor. Your income is poor. And you spiral to obscurity. Just another R50 crafter without any production value.

Free ride's over son. You'd best get to gathering, because no gatherer's going to give you so much as a maple log with that kind of attitude.