This is something that has always annoyed me. Not only with gathering but some of teh combat leves as well(why make a leve for level 30 have 5-10 mobs that aggro all over the target area? Makes little sense to me. More so when they have talked about fixing this forever and seem to only make it worse.

but honestly at this point the gathering stuff needs to be fixed. Considering we have no real way of fighting back they should maybe make the mobs just not aggro DoL classes at all. It's not like that would unbalance or break anything. We have already seen plenty of mob placement tweaks so how in the world the gathering related stuff which has been brought up countless times hasn't been fixed is beyond me.