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

[Hamada]

Blessed Harvest II does nothing for Luck of the Pioneer.



It's the exact same ability.

So? more often then not you will average more HQs doing what I said, or at least more items to craft with. There is no reason in the world to use ageless words, making Deep Vigor/brunt force useless. (Unless you get SUPER lucky on collectables, guess you use it then)

No it is not.

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.

I know what I had on, the Aoe broke stelth, and I do not even think the adamantite node has AoE? This happened on the Lumythrite Ore node, and Old-growth Camphorwood Log node. Yes I had stealth up, the AoE broke it.

Why care about 1-2 HQ? what I said nets 3 average, hell i got 12/15 once.