Harvest Failure Rate

[zzapp]

Right now, both miner and botanist are R47 with very good tools and gear. Post patch on grade 4 & 5 harvest nodes I'd estimate I'm faililng to harvest anything 25%-33% of the time. Anyone else having the same issue? I'm like a blinded mrd with a weathered axe lol.

[tymora]

Reverse holds true for me. Almost 100% on all nodes now.
Like someone else posted in the other thread, gathering is very simplified now.

[Medura]

extremely easy actually :P All but fishing, that went down though, if your gear is even one level higher than you, thats the problem. Take a pic of your gear and we can see whats wrong

[MariyaShidou]

Harvesting definitely gotten easier, even with the nerfed gears (ugh only hat, gloves and body for me now, others under optimal) etc. I have no problem gathering at G5 as lvl 35 BOT. They reduced a lot of items you can get from node, so it's easier to guess what item you are getting and where to strike for them now.

[Eruantien]

he is talking about with a scythe, everyones answers appear to be about main hand hatchet.

Yes harvesting does appear to be about 25%, but I dont find it too much of a change compared to before patch on this one.

[zzapp]

he is talking about with a scythe, everyones answers appear to be about main hand hatchet.

Yes harvesting does appear to be about 25%, but I dont find it too much of a change compared to before patch on this one.

Thanks. Quite honestly, even though I'm R47 both DoL classes, I've spent 99% of my time getting there for the sake of getting there. I.E. - hardly focused on targeting a particular. Therefore, up until now, my experience with offhand tools has been extremely limited. As a matter of fact my miner I never quarried until R47 lol, and now it's mostly for dye I need. So it's very possible offhand success rates are not changed much in the patch. I will say, however, it seems rather lame that @ my rank with very good gear I can whiff 3 times in a row, etc. on both grade 4/5 nodes. I guess it is what it is.

Anyhow, thanks again for your replies.

[Jinko]

Dyes seems to have a much higher failure rate than other harvested materials, at least from my experience.

[zzapp]

OK, this really needs to be fixed >< I'm 48 Botanist and just went to a grade 4 harvesting area for dye, and proceeded to whiff 6/8 times. I have the very best gear, and my rank in this area gives me 18 xp per successful logging attempt. Why such a lame success rate on harvesting? This is so annoying, and I don't want to hear that dye is such a high level and thus the failure rate, my god, I'm two levels from game cap. >< Please fix this.

[Medura]

"I have the very best gear"

use lvl 50 gear at lvl 48 = no bonus from gear

i can easily do grade 5 as lvl 25 botanist now so most likely its either extremely bad luck or the optimal stuff on your gear. both optimal thingies is green right? (class and level)

[Aleczan]

I haven't gotten that high level yet. All my off-hand gatherings yield good result and hardly miss. But maybe it's because I'm lower level and harvesting at lower grades node.