Gathering Skills or GP need adjustments.

[KariArisu]

Right now, Gathering is a bit too basic.

When I'm gathering materials for Cooking for example, I'm literally just waiting til I get 500 GP and then using the skill to get +2 items per gather.

It's similar on unspoiled nodes, just with a ton of waiting involved.

I honestly suggest SE make gathering skills more interesting, or make GP regenerate faster.
Perhaps even toss us some gear that increases GP regeneration.
Cordials aren't good enough, they aren't very available, have a long cooldown, and are only 300 GP. Most of the time, you can sell them on the market board for more than you'd gain from gathering.

[Lyrinn]

You know you get +5 GP with each swing, right? In the time you waited for 500 GP, you could've cycled through way more than 2 nodes (which is what +2 yield basically is) while regenerating GP quicker. Lazy people don't get results.

[KariArisu]

You know you get +5 GP with each swing, right? In the time you waited for 500 GP, you could've cycled through way more than 2 nodes (which is what +2 yield basically is) while regenerating GP quicker. Lazy people don't get results.

Are you dumb? I never said I was standing around or lazy. I was saying that when constantly gathering, you only get to use skills once every 10-20 nodes.
Please refrain from posting with that logic...

[Mhaeric]

Right now, Gathering is a bit too basic.

When I'm gathering materials for Cooking for example, I'm literally just waiting til I get 500 GP and then using the skill to get +2 items per gather.

It's similar on unspoiled nodes, just with a ton of waiting involved.

I honestly suggest SE make gathering skills more interesting, or make GP regenerate faster.
Perhaps even toss us some gear that increases GP regeneration.
Cordials aren't good enough, they aren't very available, have a long cooldown, and are only 300 GP. Most of the time, you can sell them on the market board for more than you'd gain from gathering.

I never said I was standing around or lazy.

Actually, you said exactly that. You are "literally just waiting til [you] get 500GP," and that there's nothing but "a ton of waiting involved."

I was saying that when constantly gathering, you only get to use skills once every 10-20 nodes.

There was no mention of using other nodes in your post, and the only indication of what you are doing is "literally just waiting" until your GP is back to 500. Look up the word literally if you don't understand why this means something different than what you claim you said.

Are you dumb?

Please refrain from posting with that logic...

Please refrain from posting with that rudeness...

[HEC]

Actually, you said exactly that. You are "literally just waiting til [you] get 500GP," and that there's nothing but "a ton of waiting involved."

I'm pretty sure the waiting bit refers to the unspolied nodes only ("It's similar on unspoiled nodes, just with a ton of waiting involved.")

Please refrain from posting with that rudeness...

I do agree with that ...

[Simaril]

I enjoy gathering, but it's really boring to cycle through four nodes before I use an ability. I would much prefer if there were some very low or 0 gp abilities thsat were worth using, even if their value was minscule.

Maybe give us a "buff" ability that uses like 5 GP, gives like 5 gathering... There could 4 buffs to pick from Gathering, Perception, Int, Dex (only allow one at a time) - so if you're really close to meeting the requirements for a node you can switch buffs.


This would also require some tiny amount of thought that might benefit human beings more than bots / rmt? I'm all for ANYTHING that gives human thought an advantage over bots.


Maybe additional human input would be nice too? When I'm farming an item 99% of the effort is running to the node. Then I just hit the same button 4 or 5 times... and every lap or so I get to do something more... or I can just let GP accumulate a longer while :/

[Dakre]

To control the flow of materials to keep the economy stable, would you rather mine and use the skills when it\\'s available, to help, or use the skills often with very little reward to go with? If you combine the best of both, you\\'ll see every gathered material go down to be less than what NPCs would sell it if they did. Now I do agree they should change it to be more fun, or more rewarding, such as by adding additional mechanics to the current system. I would personally like to see something like a random chance for the node to refill or other things like that, because wouldn\\'t like something good happening occasionally.

Now in this case the OP is complaining about how it\\'s designed, which isn\\'t very fun, but I agree with Lyrinn. It\\'s going to take a long time if you are just sitting there. It would be like a car, if it\\'s cold would you wait while it\\'s warming up before moving or start driving so it warms up faster?

[dlamhk]

gathering is boring in every MMO, I have no idea what you are complaining

[Raminax]

gathering is boring in every MMO, I have no idea what you are complaining

But it doesn't justify developers not trying to make it more interesting.

[Shirai]

I do agree that GP needs a faster way to regen, or they need to implement a recipe for Cordial...