Gathering Gauge. Kill Mobs Rank 1-5 to Star and your Gathering Gauge fills up as you take part in fighting mobs, the amount you gauge fills up is based on how much work you put into the fight with every 100% allowing you to gather from 1 node. You can fill the gauge up to 1k% allowing you to gather from 10 nodes, when you run out, go back to fighting, rinse repeat. This would encourage gatherers to fight so that they can earn the ability to gather and thus serve a limitation to just being able to gather freely with no restrictions.