Please remove gathering from easy and Normal Diadem

[Ashkendor]

OP, you didn't do your homework before posting this:

There are more effective places to get hardsilver, titanium, and Mythrite ore, the other ore is not even useful in anything that i've seen.

You must not have looked very hard because they're used in a lot of the Sky Pirate pieces, as is Cloud Cotton. Royal Mistletoe is used in Max Potions and Max Ethers. All of the other items in the nodes are Hidden items when harvesting nodes outside of the Diadem.

The same fish in here can be caught outside safer,

Bzzzzzt. Wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. There are several Diadem-exclusive fish. Pterodactyls make leather for the Sky Pirate pieces, Gem Marimos make Max Potions and Max Ethers, and Retribution Staves make the current best crit food in the game.

the chests they gather are not frequent enough to warrant wasting the time on them.

That I'll agree with you on. Chests are ridiculously rare.

You're there to perform a task not run off and punish others for having the misfortune to meet you. I suggest if you want to gather you form a party specifically to gather. ^^

Uh. Funny, I didn't know that I was there to perform any specific task for anyone besides myself. Diadem is pretty open-ended content. Here's a question: can you gather in Expert Roulette? Of course you can't. If SE didn't mean for us to gather in Diadem you wouldn't be able to do it at all. If one person's absence from the party is hurting you that badly, you need to be looking at what the remaining seven are doing wrong. If you're down a healer or a tank, switching class is a thing in there. There's zero penalty for it. If DPS are putting out crap damage, well that's hardly my fault if I'm across the map fishing to make raid food and potions for my static.

I suggest if you want to fight, you form a party specifically to fight. You queue in Duty Finder, you deal with what you get.

The problem I see is that I WANT to gather in diadem, but would probably just be pissing off any group I accompany randomly. I could create a party finder, but I have the feeling that gathering itself isn't very popular in diadem on my server. The majority of people I meet just want to farm 210 gear, and neglect other enemies and activities in Diadem.

Honestly, as long as you pass on the combat drops (common courtesy imo) they have nothing to complain about.

[Asmodai]

Honestly, as long as you pass on the combat drops (common courtesy imo) they have nothing to complain about.

Considering the amount of coddling people around here give to the 300 dps crowd if someone leaves you may not have enough dps to get the gold chests from a star rank. So yes, they do.

[Ashkendor]

Considering the amount of coddling people around here give to the 300 dps crowd if someone leaves you may not have enough dps to get the gold chests from a star rank. So yes, they do.

If one person's absence from the party is hurting you that badly, you need to be looking at what the remaining seven are doing wrong... If DPS are putting out crap damage, well that's hardly my fault if I'm across the map fishing to make raid food and potions for my static.

You apparently didn't read my entire post so I'll just put this here. ^^

Lay the blame for bad DPS where it belongs - on bad DPS. Not on me.

[Khalithar]

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What this guy said. There are lot of really nice items you can get from diadem only, plus you can use the spoils you gather up for some nice materia and crafting items that you can sell or keep for yourself. It's still very profitable/worthwhile to gather.