Grade 6 and 7 trees.

[Eruantien]

there is no point in the game above grade 5

[Truvy]

Fishing is tempered however by less SP per sucess vs Mining and Bot. This though is countered as there are Grade 10 waters that are completly safe, only have low level fish in them, and give excellent SP once you can get your bite rate up a bit (post R32 with a Rattan Rod seems to help a ton).

I agree with OP though, the world is vast. really huge actually. But SOO many zones have no: Advanced gathering nodes, Leves, Quests, or any other reason to get your out there. Aside from a few camps most people go to grind on...lots of it is wasted.

(Legendary fish? Can i have it? yes, please.)

[Picoman]

The question 'Do we need to have a rank cap increase to get all this?' still remains.

I would love to see a timeline for this type of content.
Theres only a small percentage of us who care about this but would be nice to know if it was 3 months away or 1 year away.

Ive said this before but:

Ishgard is the key to everything.