gathering in nature

[Tezz_Xivectro]

Will there be party based gathering (similar to the group crafting concept) ?

Imagine a farming or building concept that gatherers must work together to keep the resources up. Something along those lines i suppose.

ALSO

Will there be gathering competitions (Ex. Who can catch the most or biggest fish!) ?

ALSO

Why can't we mine inside of the mines!

[Sigmakan]

My Question:

The speed of gathering animations has increased greatly, but connection latency seems slow down gathering significantly. Often, there are long pauses between selecting actions and the animation occurring. Will this be addressed and fixed?

[Black_Rose]

oh cool, Q&A time!
well, as a Fisher at heart i probably got a question that not only i but alot of players have.

Will the gathering Limit (Gathering Fatigue) get lifted or totally erased anytime in the future?

i think the current maximum of items that can be gathered before the gathering fatigue is hitting in is to low, now i'm a 50 Fisher, and it was bearable because i didn't have to move around much while leveling.
But as a Botanist or Miner you're constantly moving around, and with the Fatigue slowly making it impossible to keep on skilling i think the fatigue bar should be lifted a little, as it doesn't only get harder after around 150~ succesful gathering attempts, it's getting nearly impossible shortly after that.

[Sigmakan]

My questions:

It was initially claimed that all disciplines (War/Magic/Hand/Land) would be of equal focus in regards to content/gameplay. Is this statement still accurate? Are significant gameplay and content additions planed for DoL?

Will DoL have a role in end game content?

[Tibian]

Swan feathers should not drop from cutting down a tree more frequently than raw lumber. There should be an option to "look for feathers," "chop down lumber," and "gather nuts and fruit," to avoid pointless drops. Why are there not different nodes or options for different materials?

Will node locations start becoming random rather than their preset locations which can be easily abused by RMT and botters?

I want to walk up to a gathering node, as a Thaumaturge, and gather my crafting materials rather than switching to a botanist. It takes several minutes to switch my gear, skills, and traits, just to make my job a Botanist for something that should be instant. Are there plans or the possibility of this happening?

I have a discussion or .. suggestion to add to the question above. Basically, gathering should be nearly as simple as World of Warcraft (flame on fan boys). I want to walk up to a node, as a battle job, and just click it and grab my materials. There is nothing wrong with gathering this way. The current XIV system is ridiculous as each piece of gear takes 4-5 seconds to equip when your character suddenly disappears and then reappears. Even if a macro is setup, this macro takes itself 30 seconds to fully complete before you can begin the ridiculous hot and cold game which itself takes forever. The macros need to be instant and if I want to switch jobs I want it to take place in less than 2 seconds. Even better yet, have preset character equipment layouts that you can equip different gear for (which takes up NO inventory space if equipped, thus alleviating the need for 20 retainers and mules) and then when you go to a node, it automatically switches to that job.

Crystal and shard requirements are insane for crafting, are there any plans to SUBSTANTIALLY increase the amount of crystals and shards through gathering?

Will gathering be permitted without dismounting from mounts? If not, can this option be implemented... please.

Can gathering professions not share levequests with the rest of the levequests? While you're at it, make all the levequests mutually exclusive so that we can have 8 battle leves, 8 crafting leves, and 8 gathering leves at each reset.

[Nuru]

Here is my question:

Will we be able to select which item we are focusing on gathering?

[Laughlyn]

Here's my question.

Will we see some kind of Party based gathering quests / leves in the future?

Id also like to add on a side note, like many others concerns about the rate of leveling for gathering classes, it takes way too long compared to battleclasses now.

[Keftenk]

Some of the questions I thought of:

Will we ever be able to group up on gathering jobs to complete a fieldcraft leve or join up on a gathering node?

Will gathering jobs ever be needed for dungeon content? Example: clearing boulders or brush to an optional boss or an optional route which leads us to the end of the dungeon; or even fishing up an optional boss?

Are there any plans to reintroduce FINAL FANTASY XI's Fishing mechanic of possibly fishing up monsters?

Are there any plans of making the gathering jobs a lot more interactive and engaging with their own special abilities?

Why can Wrist Flick stun level 60+ NMs (Uraeus, Great Buffalo, Dodore, Haughtpox Bloatbelly, Elder Mosshorn) with ease and consistency?

Are there any plans to have Arbor Call, Lay of the Land, and Gulleye ping or mark the mini-map (and main map) with an arrow to follow instead of it indicating the location via text?

[SydeBeheln]

Here is my question:

We were told Gatherers would be used in party combat in some way, will we ever see that?

[Lionix]

Can you make Disciples of the Land relevant in fights/dungeons? Miners weakening stone monsters, finding better items, opening weak walls in dungeons, etc.

When the game was about to come out, we were told classes like Miners could, for example, find weaknesses on stone-based monsters and that Disciples of the Land would find different/greater materials from monsters.

Any plans to alleviate inventory stress for gatherers? Maybe finally add a pouch equipment they can use for materials?

Man, I hope they aren't just planning to take '+' materials away...

Edit: Woops, Keftnek and SydeBeheln beat me to the first question. Should I delete it?