Offhand Gathering Grade 5

[Geesus]

Thank you guys for bringing this concern up.

Since there are only a few replies to this topic, I wanted to post and see what a wider group of people thought about the issue. Let us know what you think and we'll be sure to pass it along to the dev. team!

I'll ask my LS gatherers for their take on this. I've been lazy with my off hand gathering but I can for this post maybe not be SOOOO lazy tonight.

[Rukkirii]

I'll ask my LS gatherers for their take on this. I've been lazy with my off hand gathering but I can for this post maybe not be SOOOO lazy tonight.

That would be very helpful! Thanks! ^_^

[Duuude007]

Thanks Rukkirii.

There is a very small request just to even out the gathering rewards in Offhand Grade 5 so that it is more even. It's ok to get dye, but getting dye in 7 out of 8 tries is stressful.

^This.

Dyes are a nice feature that we are all glad the game provides, but not if it makes things so difficult to farm that people begin to dislike the idea of picking up an offhand tool in the first place. After all, if you can dye your entire linkshell's wardrobe in the matter of a couple hours gathering, but have little to say in other materials, the results are a bit skewed.

Suggestion: What if there were an equivalent of "Fingerprints of the Gods", but for offhand dyes? So that we can turn it off, lol.

[Magistrat]

maybe make dyes proc on offhand like dark matter procs on mainhand

[Kiote]

This is not restricted specifically to Grade 5s. Nearly every grade is fairly imbalanced.

Since dye does not need to be crafted in any way, it should probably be the rarest or second rarest drop.

[Kiote]

maybe make dyes proc on offhand like dark matter procs on mainhand

Yes, but make Dark Matter proc more, then balance it to that ~.~`

[Helseth]

Suggestion: What if there were an equivalent of "Fingerprints of the Gods", but for offhand dyes? So that we can turn it off, lol.

I support this.

[Sophia]

ATTN MODS

Add another grade 5 spear fishing node for Iron Lake already there are only 2 every other location for all grades has 3

[Raldo]

Ok, now that this thread has some mod attention, I'd like to firmly stick my foot in my mouth and retract my earlier opinion of "leave it like it is". The chance of getting dye is indeed too high.

I went back and re-read the OP and calculated it out. I apparently misread it the first time and looked at the wrong column of data (I was looking at items, not gathers). He got dye approximately 70% the time. That's way too much even by my standards.

I would decrease the frequency of dyes in grade 5 to at most 50% chance. If I was making the changes, I would probably make it around 25% in Grade 5, and scale the other grades back accordingly. Grade 1 currently has about a 5% chance of getting dye, so I would leave that one as it is.

I disagree with those that say dye should be rare. It serves no purpose in the game other than vanity, so there's no reason for it to be rare. Plus, once 2.0 hits, we'll be able to dye and re-dye, as well as dye more colors, so there will be more demand for dyes. Please don't reduce it to the point where it's like gathering dark matter with DoL. I have no qualms with a 'Fingerprints of the Gods'-esque ability for it, but... that seems kinda weird to me.

The one question I have though... if dye is so abundant, why are some of the colors so bloody expensive? On Selbina, black was 5k last I checked, purple was 7k, and blue was a more reasonable 1~2k. Grey, on the other hand, is down to 250g, but grey is boring, so no surprise there.

[Geesus]

I have to agree a bit with Raldo as far as rarity. It's for cosmetic purposes so maybe another way of gathering it or some other method. But since it lost it's luster after the update and Dye no longer "gives" stats, it really is just for cosmetics as was also previously mentioned. So fun to gather for the XP but the loss of space in inventory and the apparent over abundance to success for gathering is just a bit high. lol