Quote Originally Posted by cgbspender View Post
Took me 4 hours each gathering job to level them from 50 to 60, having breaks inbetween. Slow you say ?
OP is likely referring to 1-40 which is a real grind. Leveling from 50-60 is a joke due to collectibles and company issue survival manuals. So much so that i think you have forgoten where you came from (probably a long time since got to MIN/BTN 50). It was made pretty clear to me when i recently leveled 2 Alts so that i could stockpile redscrips. 1-50 is no joke. It just takes too long.

OP is right that the grind from 1-50 is absurdly long in comparison to the 50-60 grind. You would think that with all the shortcuts we were given in HW that they would have nerfed the gathering grind or at least incorporated another means of obtaining gatheirng exp. Sadly, its just as time consuming leveling a miner as it was in 2.0 when this game was released. I think thats an issue.