Gathering locked by main scenario

[Pulsahr]

I liked to lvlup my craft and gathering classes to craft my own equipment before leveling my combat classses and advancing in main scenario.
that's what I did in 2.x, because it was possible, and that was awesome !

But what happened to the gathering in heavensward ? There are 51-55 ingredients in the farest areas. To get there, you have to use a flying mount, in order to access a zone only unlocked with a flying mount !
The said flying mount is unlocked only with main story.
And, just to be sure to make things worse, you have to move even further in main story to be able to fly in areas.

You, Square-Enix, were proud to separate craft and story, and you were right, and it was great so far. Why the contrary now ?

I have to exp my combat classes, to progress in main scenario, in order to progress in my craft classes, in order to craft my equi... wait no, there's no point now.

Fix : move gathering point to first zones, or untie the flying feature from main scenario (better).

[lordoftheapes79]

Yeah you don't need flight to gather in any of the early areas.

[Roth_Trailfinder]

Almost everything in ARR is locked behind MSQ progression. Why would you expect an expansion to be any different?

[Verdan]

You could pretty much always move to an area in ARR, even if you couldn't fight there. As a botanist, there's a ton of stuff(including the 55 quest) in The Churning Mists, which is behind a trial and a dungeon, which makes it pretty impossible to level up your gatherer first like I did in ARR.

[Pulsahr]

You could pretty much always move to an area in ARR, even if you couldn't fight there. As a botanist, there's a ton of stuff(including the 55 quest) in The Churning Mists, which is behind a trial and a dungeon, which makes it pretty impossible to level up your gatherer first like I did in ARR.

Aaah thank you Verdan, someone who really understand my pain.

[Zorlinta]

Try also fisher... pools access also locked, you cant reach many of them without advance in story, also the collectables must be get from some of those pools.
So thats not so bad after all but the worst is that baits (goblin jig) that are needed for the collectables in not-so-locked content is locked too.
So to get it need get a gsm lvl 58+ or those levequest lvl 58 wich require fish on innaccesible pool. Not to said that with the fail caught rate you keep loosing those bait.

[Pulsahr]

Try also fisher... pools access also locked, you cant reach many of them without advance in story, also the collectables must be get from some of those pools.
So thats not so bad after all but the worst is that baits (goblin jig) that are needed for the collectables in not-so-locked content is locked too.
So to get it need get a gsm lvl 58+ or those levequest lvl 58 wich require fish on innaccesible pool. Not to said that with the fail caught rate you keep loosing those bait.

So, that's everything which is locked, not only MIN / BOT and flying mount.
I hope they won't do that mistake again.