PROBLEMS WITH GATHERING.

[Neptune]

After reading the gathering Q&A im feeling rather disapointed, with most of my concerns beings "There are no plans for this" or "We are looking into this".

Gathering is one of the absolute worst aspects in FFXIV, while this is only my personal opinion, many would agree. Gathering in most mmorpgs was easy, it didn't take 5 mins standing at a tree.. then moving onto the same tree 50meters northeast. It was somewhat fun to go around gathering different herbs and substences to create new items with your crafting skill. Then the crafted items would be applied to battle. So other mmos use a system where Gathering>Crafting>Battle. They all co-exist and level around about the same pace, this way the player is not forced into only picking the battle or crafting classes. The entire idea that SE forces the player to ether do A) battle leves or B) Gathering leves....is just insane. I can't turn up to a leve grind with my linkshell and say well....today i dont have any links for you guys because i decided to do some gathering....

Gathering should feel like gathering, botanists should go out there and find different herbs and trees to harvest. The trees and herbs(plants/bushes) should have different models according to what they contain. Some materials should be harder to get to, others easy. Different areas and zones should contain different herbs and trees.The system where this is node 1-6...isn't interesting..i swing at a tree and get 3 beehive chips and 2 feathers.....

The mini-game is not fun, why they are deciding not to change is..is beyond my understanding.

I apologise if this comes off as a rant, trolling or QQing. I do not by all means want this to be a copy of WoW, Aion gathering. And I do understand the development team is very busy at work on the new battle content. But these are some of my concerns about the recent Q&A, What do you think about the recent answers and suggestions to the gathering system?

Yeah dude.. we got trolled by the devs hardcore today.