Alpha First Look: Video 6 – Gathering and Crafting

[Meatdawg]

didn't really understand the gathering. It looks like you just click what you want and get it???

Exactly.. I can't believe how many people are getting behind this and tagging it as "fun"....

Really? You want x, go up to tree and get x... So hard, so much fun... Why not just make it a vending machine

They didn't show how tree's share a global cool down and the crazy competition/qq it sparks.... or they also don't show any of the abilities you get beyond the first one....

[Alhanelem]

I like how the crafting was streamlined without changing too radically from the original system. Gathering though, seems... oversimplified.

[Radacci]

Exactly.. I can't believe how many people are getting behind this and tagging it as "fun"....

Really? You want x, go up to tree and get x... So hard, so much fun... Why not just make it a vending machine

They didn't show how tree's share a global cool down and the crazy competition/qq it sparks.... or they also don't show any of the abilities you get beyond the first one....

and what's wrong with gathering materials, instead of playing mini game? what's fun with wasting time, randomly gathering materials you dont need? it was vending machine before too, except with additional junk you dont want. i'm sure you still will anyways, cause i assume not all materials can be found in any 1 area.
they also didnt show all the lancer skills either, what's your point? they wanted to show what crafting and gathering looks like; not skills, or people QQ over nodes.

[Genjuro]

and what's wrong with gathering materials, instead of playing mini game? what's fun with wasting time, randomly gathering materials you dont need? it was vending machine before too, except with additional junk you dont want. i'm sure you still will anyways, cause i assume not all materials can be found in any 1 area.
they also didnt show all the lancer skills either, what's your point? they wanted to show what crafting and gathering looks like; not skills, or people QQ over nodes.

See I agree. In 1.0 I didn't mind that you had to discern what it was based on the amount of bar it had. If bar is in area 4 at start, chop in section 3, notch 4 to get a log. Chop....ash branch..wtf? I don't have the ingredients to make stuff with an ash branch, I'm planning to make stuff with logs ARGH.

The video shows 80% on all the items so I'm assuming that you click what you want and each item has an 80% rate of drop. Now I can specifically target my ash logs and continue whacking away. Yes I might miss, like that guy missed on the wind shard, but it looks like you've got at least 5 harvests so there's plenty tries. ME LIKEY!

To the guy saying it's a vending machine. Now we may have a vending machine, but before we had a put your quarter in and hope you get what you want. Because if you didn't use third party sites to figure out what you wanted, you weren't getting it. Which I didn't mind, but some people may.

[Meatdawg]

and what's wrong with gathering materials, instead of playing mini game? what's fun with wasting time, randomly gathering materials you dont need? it was vending machine before too, except with additional junk you dont want. i'm sure you still will anyways, cause i assume not all materials can be found in any 1 area.
they also didnt show all the lancer skills either, what's your point? they wanted to show what crafting and gathering looks like; not skills, or people QQ over nodes.

I don't like to be spoon fed content. Maybe you do. They replaced gathering with a no skill vending machine. I guess that's fun...

[Delsus]

...Yes it is, actually...

Actually I have not seen this anywhere, they say "you will not disclose propitiatory information before it is officially revealed" that means information that belongs to SE, or what you see in game, nowhere does it even hint upon you not being allowed to tell people you are in the test.

I don't like to be spoon fed content. Maybe you do. They replaced gathering with a no skill vending machine. I guess that's fun...

How about a physics problem for every gather, that do you?

[Radacci]

See I agree. In 1.0 I didn't mind that you had to discern what it was based on the amount of bar it had. If bar is in area 4 at start, chop in section 3, notch 4 to get a log. Chop....ash branch..wtf? I don't have the ingredients to make stuff with an ash branch, I'm planning to make stuff with logs ARGH.

The video shows 80% on all the items so I'm assuming that you click what you want and each item has an 80% rate of drop. Now I can specifically target my ash logs and continue whacking away. Yes I might miss, like that guy missed on the wind shard, but it looks like you've got at least 5 harvests so there's plenty tries. ME LIKEY!

To the guy saying it's a vending machine. Now we may have a vending machine, but before we had a put your quarter in and hope you get what you want. Because if you didn't use third party sites to figure out what you wanted, you weren't getting it. Which I didn't mind, but some people may.

ya, and worst case scenario in 1.0 was trying to get catalysts, if you didnt visit some site, and knew they only drop in Thanalaan. i gathered like 300+ nodes in Limsa trying to get any. so either visit a site, or explore all nodes in the world, printing down what they drop im thinking it will still be like that, so you'll need to go to a specific map, to get some certain material. but at least you'll see that you CAN get it.

[Genjuro]

I don't like to be spoon fed content. Maybe you do. They replaced gathering with a no skill vending machine. I guess that's fun...

Then you can close your eyes and push the down button at random and hit the x button. It's the same thing.

[Bowen]

ok, i'll go back into hiding then

Just hope that SE decides to ignore this little slip up, or else you're getting the boot.

[Meatdawg]

Then you can close your eyes and push the down button at random and hit the x button. It's the same thing.

Which is what all you will be doing after you fall asleep after an hour of this..