So how about a new gathering class?

[IceSpear]

Maybe a bird catching class? Kinda of stupid I know, but it would be to collect or "harvest" the feathers from the bird then return them to the wild. The feathers could be used for weaver to make different kinds of hats with them little feathers on top? It could also be used for the ink and quill recipes? Just a thought.

[Gralna]

Archeologist, go to various ruins throughout eorzea to harvest artifacts, which can be used to craft new recipes for other crafts, or are used in actual recipes. Could be used to also add some lore to places like Nym or Amdapor.

[Wulfyn]

Junk Monger

[Squand]

How would you propose giving them items to collect that fit into old recipes? That seems like a large logistical hurdle.

[LineageRazor]

How would you propose giving them items to collect that fit into old recipes? That seems like a large logistical hurdle.

Assuming this question is in reponse to the Archeologist suggestion, in addition to artifacts, bones are something an Archeologist could certainly find which would fit into a number of existing recipes. Additionally, Archeologist could find things like Aged Spear Shafts, or other aged items used to create Zodiac weapon quest items; currently these aged items are only available through desynthesis, but as relic quest difficulty gets nerfed as time goes by making these items available through other means certainly isn't out of the question.

There are doubtless other ingredients that one could finagle into Archeologist that aren't immediately apparent. After all, Botanist has a few oddball harvests (like frogs and scorpions), and so does miner (Adamantoise shells and ogre horns). There's probably a few other existing items that you could think up some excuse for Archeologists to find. Tallow Candles? Tiny Crowns?

[Squand]

This is the question for all of the gathering classes being proposed. Like you, I can only think of a couple, and they are all available through other means. To warrant a new class you'd need 100s of nodes all giving a variety of unique items. Those items would have to be useful for something. So you'd probably have to create all new low level recipes to be retroactively added to various crafting classes.

Or you create a new gathering class that has it's completely separate eco system? In which case how do you envision that working?

I like the idea of a new gathering class, would be fun, but it won't happen in 3.0 series and... it also seems like a logistical nightmare.

[LineageRazor]

SE adds new low level recipes all the time. The biggest batch, of course, came with the addition of housing. In addition to an entirely new category of housing items, things like nails, mortar, and such were added to the existing Crafting Log. Since then, new low and high level recipes have been added pretty steadily, at the rate of generally a few per update.

Would the addition of Archeologist (or any new gathering class) require the addition of a lot of new recipes to be worthwhile? Sure. It certainly wouldn't be the first time SE's added a bunch of new recipes at once, though, so it wouldn't be out of the question.

[Alistaire]

papparazzi. take photos of players in various glamours to level up.

[LsharNunh]

Hunter! You hunt for game in special spots. Game can only be killed by hunters, and they get skin, meat, bones, feathers etc. Much more than you get with regular mobs. You can set traps with your secondary tool.

How about it?

[Shadygrove]

Shepherd was in the 1.xx .dats but never implemented. The Shepherd's guild still exists.

Of the various classes proposed on the forums, archeologist would be the easiest to implement, but open world, not in dungeons as mentioned above.

We have a LOT of ruins after all.....