[Dev #TBD] Fixing the Level Spread of Local Leves

[Mortikhan]

As a fellow crafter first, beat it to death with a giant pointy object second, I would truly like to agree with you. However, there are far too many other ways to level your crafts other than leves that I can not. After looking at your levels I would have to recommend leveling your gathering classes. Those classes can and will level virtually every craft with the exception of leatherworking (primarily due to the necessity of animal hides).

The local leve system, from what I have seen of it so far, was only put into play to really get you started and supply you with Guildmarks. Once you get started you have to use other classes to feed your crafting needs. I see it like this: The gathering classes feed the crafting classes and the crafting classes feed the battle classes. Again as I said earlier the exception is leatherworking because of your obvious necessity to kill mobs that drop skins that you will need. The crafts also feed each other with the different crafted components that are needed for other synths in one specific class.

As you get more guildmarks you will be able to get all of the treatises and scrolls from that guild and be able to craft things far higher in level which will net you more and more SP. When that happens your main concern will be fatigue. Every 5 levels you will open a new set of leves within 5 levels of your current level (ie. at 20 you will see 25 leves and at 25 you will see 30 leves etc.).

Gathering classes start to pay off at +10 levels starting at 15 (ie. at 25 and 35 new areas open up to do leves at and you will get better materials to work with). Right now you can only access level 3 areas for gathering. How often you can gather at each location will also increase with level and better tools and gear which leads to far less running around to find points and more gathering. With your crafts being 2-15 levels higher you are not going to see much help from those gathering classes. Get your gathering classes to 25+ and you will see a huge difference in what you find in each area and how much it will help with your crafting. Also be sure to pay attention to secondary gathering points since they will offer a lot of things for your crafting (ie. bushes yielding Cotton Bolls which will allow you to go to 35 in Weaving easily). I would recommend getting your Botany to 25 as your first gathering class since it will give you an ability called Sweat of Brow. While gathering if this ability kicks in it will double your SP gained per attempt at that particular gathering point (it works a little different with fishing however). Also, I can not stress this enough...DO YOUR BATTLE LEVES AS GATHERING LEVES and do not be afraid to use your GA on them. Between GA and Sweat of Brow the levels will fly by in gathering till you hit roughly 38-40.

Your classes will ebb and flow according to what you have for materials. This might all sound a bit strange but once you level those gathering classes you will be more concerned about where you are going to put all of those materials and where you are going to find the time to craft them all out (Spoiler: Grade 4 mining points = lots and lots and lots of Iron and Silver so you can kiss level 20-25 leves for Armorer, Blacksmithing and Goldsmithing goodbye and say hello to level 40 leves ).

These are all suggestions and I hope they help. My LS very rarely ever listens to me about gathering...as a matter of fact they usually change vent channels when I start preaching about it lol. It might be boring and tedious to do gathering leves and and gathering grinding, but your advantage will be that you will very rarely ever have to wait for any materials to pop up in the market wards...if you want them, just go get them. They will also allow you to farm things at your optimal crafting ability for 500-900 SP consistently until you get into the 40's.