Alumen to Ore ratio needs fixing.

[Coglin]

Hayden hit the nail on the head. Nonetheless Alumen is over abundant during the first 30 levels for those who refuse to level leathercraft. In which case, sell on wards or to npc, preferably on wards though seeing as it sells well.

Nah, most people are on a mental level in which they prefere to cry on the forums like school girls with skent knees to the other option of easy money. Literally easy gil.

[TheVedis]

So yeah, the OP was obviously farming grade 3 when he wrote this

kjust moved onto grade 4 and 5s to check some numbers, and you get so much less alumen and other stuff


humblehearth for example

in 150 swings, i got 140 silver, 40 mythril, 30 alumen, and 20 gems

id say the ratio is more then fine and people need to just level and get to the next grade where the drops are better

[Rydin]

So yeah, the OP was obviously farming grade 3 when he wrote this

kjust moved onto grade 4 and 5s to check some numbers, and you get so much less alumen and other stuff


humblehearth for example

in 150 swings, i got 140 silver, 40 mythril, 30 alumen, and 20 gems

id say the ratio is more then fine and people need to just level and get to the next grade where the drops are better

Right... I went from fresh to gathering fatigue 4 times in a row (With 48 hours in between each attempt to make sure I reset fatigue) at the exact same place (Halatali) with the exact same gear (L48 tool, Raptor leather gathering set, upgraded for Mind and VIT, Vit Rings and grand company gathering ring) always at the sweet spot for electrum (+4) and ironically enough... The number of Electrum ore I had when I got to fatigue was within 3 of each other all 4 times
Roughly 370 electrum or out of 700 or so attempts...

Which means I get Electrum more than everything else combined... consistently
If you're underleveled, undergeared or at a lower grade then you should be getting less of the good stuff or else there would be no reason to level, buy gear and go to grade 5

[Riv]

I agree, the amount of alumen you get is retarded high.