Heavensward materials still hidden?

[ErryK]

You can gather all of them on as "unhidden" on nodes in Diadem - if you have a FC-airship, just grab a friend, take that, get what you need and some extra shards and materia aswell!

This map of the Diadem shows various unspoiled and legendary crafting materials as being gatherable. Things like Mythrite Ore, Birch Log and Cyclops Onion are not gatherable and some of these items are for leveling.

It's not a new thing though. Even ARR nodes are the same with the various seeds and a few other items as well.

The only items that were affected this way were seeds, carbonized matter, chocobo racing food materials, topsoil and for some reason Black Limestone. But when these are vital to leveling/everyday crafts, it doesn't make sense. None of the items listed are relevant to leveling or everyday crafts.

The reason why this makes no sense for me is that for Stormblood, not one single item was 'hidden'. Unspoiled or Ephemeral? Sure, but that makes sense and most of those items were endgame items, but Hardsilver Ore, a Lv58 gathering item for Lv55-57 crafts being hidden? This feels like it made sense when Heavensward released so it can artifically lengthen the 'grinding' aspect, but now that Heavensward has come and gone, these items should retire their hidden status and be available full time, it's just waiting for a random node to proc it as being available to mine/log.

[Jojoya]

[URL="http://i.imgur.com/a8pXN7O.jpg"]The reason why this makes no sense for me is that for Stormblood, not one single item was 'hidden'

The hidden items in HW were all job quest items. They probably didn't like how the system turned out in practice (people still bought what they needed off the MB) so they went with the quest specific items in SB instead.

Could be programming issues that made them decide to leave the items hidden or could be they're using it to keep the value of those items inflated compared to what they'd be if we could use our level 70 skill set to farm them. Doesn't bother me either way, not that difficult to farm the hidden items when I need them and if the node doesn't have it, then I just grab crystals or something else I can use instead.