Gathering Classes & 'Item Fatigue'

[SeleneVenizelos]

It is not 10-15 minutes from full to nothing. They way it works is that you get 2500 points in gathering. Every time you gather something you go down 10 points if you get something from it. Every hour you get 100 points back. This means you get to gather 250 itmes per 25 hours before you cannot get anything.

Once you get down to 1000 of your 2500 points it gets a bit harder to get items but you still can.

This is a better explanation than any of the community sites provided, thank you. It makes me realise stopping at a passing grade 1 spot on my way to Gridania to snag a few Cotton Bolls is really, really hurting my levelling. Fortunately I rarely have the time to solidly level every day, and only usually end up levelling in a determined manner as this when I find myself free from work on the better side of a leve reset and have 24 hours of no levies or local levies.

I have been keeping track of my hourly SP rate at Iron Lake and Dragon Head to decide which camp is best. Given that Iron Lake likes to spam my inventory with Tomatoes and Oranges, Dragon Head almost certainly seems to be the way to go. It's not about hourly SP, evidently. It's about getting the most attempts in ratio to how many items you obtain, which means Dragon Head is almost certainly better.

Not so sure about Treespeak at the moment, without Arbor Call V it's exceptionally hard to pinpoint the tree's locations compared to IL and DH.

Fortunately managed to get R36 before this set in today, so I guess I can get a few points back by completing the quest. Thanks again, and yes, I agree, gathering rocks!