Gathering in SB worry, HP/ def/ GP scaling. Deep vigor reexamining?

[Hamada]

Mob AoEs can only hit you through stealth if you aren't actually interacting with a gathering node, unless you happened to aggro a mob just as you use stealth. Neither of these are an issue by game design, and just mean you'll have to be more careful.

And like Aramina stated, I can also confirm that there aren't any folklore nodes that don't have a safe way of landing and going into stealth near the node.

Nope, I was on the node while the Aoe hit me, I can't put on stealth again while on the node. It did aoe while I was on it, took my stelth away, reset, aggro me because the aoe took my stealth, then MPK.

[Nezerius]

Nope, I was on the node while the Aoe hit me, I can't put on stealth again while on the node. It did aoe while I was on it, took my stelth away, reset, aggro me because the aoe took my stealth, then MPK.

That sounds like you simply didn't have stealth up. There's been numerous occasions where I ended up in the AoE of the mobs near the adamantite node (due to one of the many other mines forgetting stealth), and I've never actually been hit by it, as long as I was in stealth and interacting with the node.

If for some odd reason (a bug perhaps?), you still get hit, I guess you could always just summon your chocobo to act as a distraction.

As for Deep Vigor, that ability is great for the unspoiled nodes (since those are 6 hits by default), if you're aiming to get 1-2 HQ materials for a craft. It was especially good during ARR as a consistent route of getting the HQ items used to turn in for the higher ilvl gathering tools.