Quote Originally Posted by Eugenics View Post
I didn't have much trouble getting fishing to rank50. Yeh it almost got to the point where i couldn't even catch a fish but that was after some really hardcore grinding from r47 to 50. I can't talk about the other gathering classes since i haven't played them much.
Yeah if I don't do any other gathering classes there is no issue getting to 50, but if you try leveling say Botany and Miner at same time or Mining Fishing and Botany at same time they share the same pool of 2500 possible gathering points and it makes it near impossible to level all 3 classes at the same time. Unlike leveling Crafting or DOW Classes which you can do at any time until you hit hard surplus.

That not being able to reel in a fish is the soft cap that you kept hitting. Had you tried to do another DOL class the same thing would have happened instantly whether you had ever leveled the class or not.