Confused About Collectables

[Holy-chan]

I took notice of the new BTN skills that are related to "collectables". I read the patch notes about it, but it's not telling me much about the actual process.

I tried it of my own before asking for help or advice. I'm still confused. Of all the gathering spots I tried (which is many), I only saw two items that were collectable. Both being from the unspoiled nodes of The Dravanian Forelands.

I start by using the skill and gathering the item in question, which brings up the new window. When I use either of my three skills, it increases rarity and wear. I still follow, it's similar to crafting.

When I use either of my skills, rarity goes up by about 100, wear increases by 10 or 15, and at the end, I end up with around 300/1000 rarity, and that's about it. I try to collect, and I always fail. And that's it. I lose my unspoiled node. I gather nothing. I tried this five times thus far and that was the outcome everytime.

So I'm confused. Help?

[Garlyle]

The important thing is that the more wear you create, the less your chance of successfully gathering it is.

Beyond that I don't know much. Something something fisher main instead.

[lordoftheapes79]

I don't think you can actually do any of this for a few levels anyway. I'm not sure why it unlocks at 50 instead of 55 like the turn in.

[Luminius]

At this point i wanna ask bout house of splendors. Anyone knows where and how it works for the tradeins?

[Garlyle]

I don't think you can actually do any of this for a few levels anyway. I'm not sure why it unlocks at 50 instead of 55 like the turn in.

You can absolutely do it now. However, prior to 56, none of the Collectibles are actually worth Scrip - just EXP.

[Alexiell]

So far the only collectable items i found were from unspoiled nodes. There are some in Coerthas Western Highlands and Dravanian Forelands so I think they can be found with lvl 50 already, with 51 it works for sure. However, its possible that you need a flying mount to reach some of them. Note that unlike the hidden nodes from ARR, these new ones last for only 1hr, so you have to hurry if you wanna gather from them and its another reason to get a flying mount first.
For example Yellow Copper Ore is collectable and can be mined between 12 and 1 in CWH (not sure if PM or/and AM).
However, apparently you wont get blue scrips until you are at a higher level. You can get some nice extra exp though.

how it works:
- first you need to reveal the item with Toil of the Mountaineer or by clicking the correct slot (its the second slot in this case)
- then make sure you have the skill Collector's Glove activated so it lets you gather Collectables and not normal items.
- when you click on the ore, a new window will open that shows the item's Wear and Rarity (similar to Durability and Quality when crafting)
- now you can use the new Appraisal skills to increase the Rarity (Quality) of the item. This will also increase the item's Wear AND it will decrease your gathering attempts by 1!
- you can do this until you reach the maximum Wear (30/30), if you go past that, it will decrease your chance to gather the item (you can use your normal gatherer skills to increase the gathering chance, but it doesnt seem to work after exceeding the maximum Wear)
- when you are happy with your rarity (the NPC in Mor Dhona accepts only items above a certain Rarity, the higher the more rewards) you can use your remaining gathering attempts to collect one or more items.

One more tip: If you gather something useless, either because the npc doesnt want it or the rarity is too low, you can right click and "Lower Quality" to turn the collectable into a normal NQ item.

[Aeyis]

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^pretty much this, atleast on lower levels. One thing Id like to add to it is that you can harvest multiple collectibles on the same node, as long as you have gathering attemps left. So if you already have your desired collectible value, consider collecting the item twice, instead of adding more collectible value.

[Zfz]

- you can do this until you reach the maximum Wear (30/30), if you go past that, it will decrease your chance to gather the item (you can use your normal gatherer skills to increase the gathering chance, but it doesnt seem to work after exceeding the maximum Wear)

I tried this on the Yellow Copper Core.

Without exceeding maximum wear (30), I can gather at 96% success rate.
But if I use the +50% success rate skill, then exceed the maximum wear (45), the success rate drops to 10% in one go.

It seems that unless you're gathering something you severely overgear, don't even bother trying to collect over the maximum wear.

[Youkulm]

Where can we turn in collectibles? I have a bunch from fishing but I don't know what to do with them ahah.

Found the NPCs! They're in Mor Dhona behind the NPC that unlocks and gives you the collectable skills and such.