Red Scripts (gathering)

[silverhope]

They really love giving us the illusion of options in this game, huh? You absolutely must pick of battle, one gathering, and one crafting job you want to max out for the next few months rather than being given the choice to pick between multiple. I wish they would at least raise the weekly limit to allow us to gear 3 battle, 3 crafting, and 2 gathering classes in the same timeframe. It's very discouraging for those wanting to play with multiple classes.

you cant get 1 gathering up decent gear without having atleast 2 gathering lvled up and both folklore books. thats the issue its just grind grind to be useful

[Doki]

Don't forget, it's ALL THAT GRUELING WORK, and what do you get to make? Stuff that is still mostly inferior to stuff you can get with tomes or out of savage. Yes, I know that in some cases the higher crafted stuff fully melded out will be close or superior, but the overall ridiculous cost to purchase that means only top tier guilds with maxed out gil will bother with them.

I feel like at the very least, crafters should be rewarded with Unique/Unsellable/Untradeable special gear/weapons/armors they can use for themselves that are equal or superior to other methods.

[Diana_Pepper]

Are the favours more valuable to spend on than the new i180 gear?

So far, posts have mentioned mostly favours but hardly speak about the new DoL/DoH gears.

[Verdan]

They'll do it slowly. The way you gathered high level things before was to overmeld all your HQ 50 stuff, now there's a progression path. It's gonna take a while, and there's lots of sticker shock involved, but there's a way forward for everyone, whether they be spending 16 hours a day gathering or 1 on their days off.

[Snugglebutt]

Gathering classes have had to use in game timers long prior to HW and the blue/red scripts. Timers for unspoiled nodes, fishing for big game fish at certain times of the day and such, that has not changed, just expanded upon.

[AskaRay]

Remember when gathering was relaxing? when if you wanted to farm some items you could.. remember when your life didnt revolve around the ingame clock?

Well never then because as soon as I started endgame gathering my life was tied to the ingame clock................

[Nekodar]

Even just going for Adamantite Ore nodes, that time between node pops is short enough that it's pointless to queue up for DR: Expert, or other DR or dungeons that have a risk of taking more than half an hour.

[silverhope]

Even just going for Adamantite Ore nodes, that time between node pops is short enough that it's pointless to queue up for DR: Expert, or other DR or dungeons that have a risk of taking more than half an hour.

cant do anything other than the gathering go round..

[Kallera]

I'm turning to gathering this patch. Not as fast as others, but im at least making gil and mats.
I thought the scripts were supposed to be a longer term alternative compared to melding?

[PotatoWafflez]

So am I to understand that this is the minimum set up required to gather red scripts with the blue script gear?
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/R15T

That is, without doing more melds than necessary.