A DoL successfully gathering an item is IMO the equivalent of a DoW/M successfully slaying an enemy/mob. Which means that when we FAIL to pull that item in because of this hidden fatigue system, it would equate to a DOW/M suddenly being killed by 70%+ of anything they try and attack.

Even on the lowest grade a fully capped DoL can fail 80-90% of their harvest attempts do to this hidden system. Could you imagine if a DOW/M suddenly just started being insta-killed by 80-90% of the mobs in this game due to a system as terrible as this? Not only that but being insta-killed at 50 by a WARF RAT?

Not only that but this actually does more than affect are chances at gathering. It affects our leveling as well. I can go gather on fisher and hit fatigue. Now I swap to botany to rank up some. Oh guess what, now I have insta-fails on my botanist because I played my fisher for a few hours earlier. Completely ridiculous that one class can affect me ranking another class. Hidden fatigue should not be in game at all. But having is PERSIST across ALL dols is absolutely ridiculous. No other archtype in-game deals with this stuff, except for DOL.

I realize its SE's attempt to stop RMT but it does not stop them, it hardly hinders them. It hurts more legit players than it hurts RMT. It is RMT's job to make money off in-game resources. So what RMT will go gather until they hit bad hidden gather fatigue. Then sell those resources off for gil, sell the shards they acquired while DOLing for gil and in the case of fishing use alchemy to turn those fish into shards, to sell for gil. RMT is not being stopped by this.

At the very least if not removed it needs to be revamped and SE needs to just own up and admit that it is there instead of dodging and ignoring questions and topics about it as they have since beta.

At the very make it so that it affects ONLY the class you are ranking.
Make it so that the failure chance for gathering goes down as you get deeper into normal surplus. Aka you hit surplus/yellow you now have a 10% chance to auto fail, then at the next rank of surplus 20% and so on and so on. Its better than what is in now and makes more sense. But even still this is still a bad solution, as this system just needs to go.