Thread: Mining Grade 5 Impossible after 1.18

In addition to the concerns already stated, there's also the problem that gathering spots go down until nearly exhausted, but then STAY in nearly exhausted state until they can be completely depleted by one more mining/botany operation.
so unless they changed this as well, over time, (multiple) spots will in essense run the risk of being stuck behind enemy lines never being fully exhausted, and well, render areas even more problematic to gather in.

This is remarkably poor design, unless SE for some reason wants to cull gathering activities of course.

Originally Posted by AlphaLion

It seems like these aggro hordes were implemented and placed with the planned stealth skill in mind. This is an interesting idea - YET it is horribly bad that this stealth skill was not implemented in the same patch. These mobs should be (re)moved until that is in place so we can do something about it.

Wait, there's a stealth skill in the works? I thought. . .

Originally Posted by Bayohne

Checked in with Matsui about the possibility of sneak and invisible in FFXIV. In regards to a sneak/invisible (item/ability/spell, etc.) that can be used by all classes, the dev. team is not planning on going in a direction where sneak/invisible are required, or if you don’t have sneak/invisible you can't proceed, so there are no plans for them currently.

The safest is Dragonhead, you would have to go pretty far from the remotest nodes to even find something that agros >.>