New Patch Thoughts?

[Ksenia]

- Giving Land: Huge boost to crystal gathering. If you hit the +1 attempt node you will usually see 100-150 crystals, shards (dunno about clusters yet) from a use.

- Sneak: Takes all the misery out of basic gathering. Going to get Lignum Vitae or Dwarf Cotton now, is much less a crawl on your belly feeling.
- No hidden materials: I had most everything unlocked anyway so I can't speak on this


All in all this has had a bigger impact on me for crafting than any of the crafting changes. Getting items to white scrip farm is just a case of go do it. Not the dog and pony show it used to be. Before 5.1 Gathering was something you did after you unlocked flying in a zone. Now it's fluid with map exploration.

[Ryaz]

- Giving Land: Huge boost to crystal gathering. If you hit the +1 attempt node you will usually see 100-150 crystals, shards (dunno about clusters yet) from a use.

- Sneak: Takes all the misery out of basic gathering. Going to get Lignum Vitae or Dwarf Cotton now, is much less a crawl on your belly feeling.
- No hidden materials: I had most everything unlocked anyway so I can't speak on this


All in all this has had a bigger impact on me for crafting than any of the crafting changes. Getting items to white scrip farm is just a case of go do it. Not the dog and pony show it used to be. Before 5.1 Gathering was something you did after you unlocked flying in a zone. Now it's fluid with map exploration.

I got 171 clusters from one node today. It was a beautiful thing.

I love what they did with gathering. Lots of QoL stuff with auto gather, more crystals/clusters, and not having to uncover a node let's you actually make use of Deep Vigor/Brunt Force. Plus it nets you an extra collectible which is good because I need another 8000 white gathering scrips to complete my crafting tools.

[Lunaru_F]

The new patch is nice and all but I feel the giving land would be better used if it wasn't on a 3 minute cooldown.
Another thing is how they switch up the crystal and cluster output of aethereal reduction, where I'll be getting 52 clusters and 18 crystals instead of the other way around when I could really use the 52 in crystals than clusters per reduction.

[JWag12787]

Makes me wanna try to be a legendary dragoon next. XD

[Tint]

The aura effect of sneak is annoying. Why does it even need a visual indicator when it is always active anyway?

It is not too bad on miner and botanist, but I am a fisher and I am sitting for looong periods of time at the same place. And this annoying aura is well... annyoing when you have nothing else to do than staring at your character for hours.

Of course I turn the skill off - but having to turn the skill off everytime I change classes because it automatically activates... is still annoying... >.>

[Mitsubashi]

Is it possible to get Pick Clean to +2 instead of +1 on Sandalwood Sap/Beryllium Ore with the new gear ?

[Tristann]

Is it possible to get Pick Clean to +2 instead of +1 on Sandalwood Sap/Beryllium Ore with the new gear ?

Yes, but not 100%. With buff food I'm >2500 perception, sometimes pick clean proccs with +1, sometimes with +2 on legendaries. On normal lvl 80, sometimes i get +2, sometimes +3

[Ayelet]

I am fairly new to the game and completely new to gatherering but I just hit level 66 on BTN and MIN last night. I absolutely love Sneak -- this is probably the best QOL upgrade I've seen in games in a good long while. Leveling is too fast now. I leveled Miner from 27 to 66 in just a few hours. I was in the process of doing the gathering for a class quest and had the next class quest pop. So, I gained 5 levels before I could collect 20 HQ whatevers when that was the only thing I was doing to gain exp. All in all I really like the changes but I do expect them to nerf the experience gain before long.

[Shadygrove]

[QUOTE=Tint;5219198]The aura effect of sneak is annoying. Why does it even need a visual indicator when it is always active anyway? .../QUOTE]
But it isn't always on. If you change to a gathering class in town it doesn't turn on.

[Ksenia]

I got 171 clusters from one node today. It was a beautiful thing.

I love what they did with gathering. Lots of QoL stuff with auto gather, more crystals/clusters, and not having to uncover a node let's you actually make use of Deep Vigor/Brunt Force. Plus it nets you an extra collectible which is good because I need another 8000 white gathering scrips to complete my crafting tools.

It varies but this was my second sample, first was similar