This is insulting to DoL.

[Chiz]

but lets face facts, people are saying its imposible, and im the counter arguement to that, people are saying the raptors stop them from mining there, well i wanna know how thats even possible when the raptors are at the extreme edge of the mining zone?

No one is saying its impossible, and there are certainly pockets of nodes that are aggro-free, but on the whole, that is CLEARLY not the case. Please stop trying to defend a clear oversight on the part of the devs that falls straight on the border of incompetence to place an incredible amount of aggro mobs around gathering locations without first providing respite in the form of stealth or de-aggro abilities.

Now for some points that your singular, tired Iron Lake anecdote fails to address: what if people want to mine/harvest something other than pine/oak or iron/mythril? What if people want to farm different grade 5 gemstones or crafting mats? What if people want guild marks which can now only be obtained in the city where the guild is, but simply can't because of new mob placement in areas that aren't as tranquil as Iron Lake? Not to mention node placement and ability to rotate nodes with other DoL points seems to have changed as well, so you have to run further to cycle through nodes if a single one is blocked by aggro.

Please stop trying to defend this indefensible action on the part of the devs and try to understand the problem others are having with this, thanks.