Getting hit by others' enemy AoE while DoL gathering

[Fynlar]

Hi, I'm Lucille and I'm victim of AoE bullying while I'm gathering. Since then, I always use Stealth and my life changed forever! Now I can gather all these suculent nodes without worrying about these attacks anymore.

Hi, you totally missed the point.

I'm not talking about YOU getting aggro, I'm talking about other people getting aggro and their aggro dropping AoEs on them which happen to hit you. For which Stealth currently doesn't do jack, you'll still be hit. And if it inflicts any direct damage (which most AoEs tend to do) your gathering process will be interrupted, unspoiled node lost, mooched fish disappeared.

[Cyrus-Wallace]

Hi, you totally missed the point.

I'm not talking about YOU getting aggro, I'm talking about other people getting aggro and their aggro dropping AoEs on them which happen to hit you. For which Stealth currently doesn't do jack, you'll still be hit. And if it inflicts any direct damage (which most AoEs tend to do) your gathering process will be interrupted, unspoiled node lost, mooched fish disappeared.

Thanks and I'm sorry for the mistake. You have rules for that, it's gameplay disruption, a thing that you can report to a GM if it's done on purpose, which is hard to determine. Even though your suggestion is nice, I don't know if they are going to implement it. Good luck with that.

[Fynlar]

In terms of balance, if you as a DoL get immunity from AoE's I demand:

-Immunity from AoEs as DoW/DoM unless targeted to me. Hey, it's only fair and it brings balance.

That's fine with me too if they actually want to do that (it's another sort of change to FFXI they eventually made after a while and it certainly didn't cause the end of the world to happen there), but you're just ignorant of how the game works if you think anyone else needs the change as badly as DoLs do.

DoLs must go to specific highlighted points to do their gathering and can't move mid-progress while gathering like DoWs/DoMs can with most of their actions, and even in the cases where it does interrupt/fail an action they can just try again after a second or two. DoHs can craft almost anywhere they want, including areas without any monsters. DoWs/DoMs almost always have freedom to move and don't experience automatic action cancellation upon being hit by any damaging AoE, nor would it force them to potentially have to wait another hour to do whatever it was they were doing even if it did work that way.

[Tupsi]

That's fine with me too if they actually want to do that (it's another sort of change to FFXI they eventually made after a while and it certainly didn't cause the end of the world to happen there), but you're just ignorant of how the game works if you think anyone else needs the change as badly as DoLs do.

You're quick to throw the word ignorant around (sorry to burst your bubble but I love gathering, probably more than you do.) It's just the simple fact you take the risk of gathering near hostile monsters or getting hit by an area of effect skill, that in itself is working as intended. Interruptions does suck, but it's not ignorance other than not realizing if they do this change, they have to do the change universally or balance is skewed.

This includes to battle content as well. So no, don't twist my post into something it's not - no where did I say "x needs it more than y".