Anyone having fun with DOL?

[Jojoya]

Many of us enjoy it because it's not like gathering in WoW. It's better done when you want to be gathering as opposed to take a random whack at a node you just happened to be passing by while doing a quest.

If you gather enough, you get to know what nodes are in the zone and roughly where they're at. If you want to go after a specific material, the gathering log is always there to help you find the general location (and time if it's timed node you've gathered from in the past).

If you're hoping it's going to get simplified to WoW levels, I'd say you're out of luck. The boredom and frustration you feel at the need to change classes isn't likely to go away.

[SamSmoot]

Many of us enjoy it because it's not like gathering in WoW. It's better done when you want to be gathering as opposed to take a random whack at a node you just happened to be passing by while doing a quest. .

Actually, I find FFXIV gathering to be more efficient than WoW's system, but extremely boring, in that you just circulate between 6 nodes in the same area over and over again. At least in WoW, there was some adventure to it, and the added reward when you came across a rare node. One big issue with WoW was that the nodes disappear a short time after being collected by a player, so the bots could clean out a whole zone unless you could get there before it, or just follow one and gather them before they despawn.

Not having fun at it though. I have more gil than I know what to do with, so the only times I gather now is to make stuff for myself that I don't want to pay MB prices for.