This is why i hate gathering with botanist

[Irana]

I been trying for the past hour to get faerie apples so I can level my culinarian...

So far I gotten 3 stacks of maple saps..1 stack of maple logs...and around 30~ faerie apples...

Why are those apples so damn hard to get?!?!?

[Answa]

I been trying for the past hour to get faerie apples so I can level my culinarian...

So far I gotten 3 stacks of maple saps..1 stack of maple logs...and around 30~ faerie apples...

Why are those apples so damn hard to get?!?!?

There's a camp in La Noscea (I think Bloodshore?) where poachers give a bunch of faerie apples.

[Yves]

Monkeys by Tam Tara are L20 and drop em, too. And mint, so you can double your farming efforts ^^

[Kinseykinz]

I saw your post on the CUL forum as well. Where are you trying to farm them and where are you striking the tree? Also, what level is your BTN.

[Irana]

My botanist is 25 just enough to get plenty of tries form the trees near Emerald Moss which should be giving a lot of apples...

I hit the tree on the apples spot which is +2 on the line

[Irana]

What are the mints for by the way? XD

[Rhomagus]

If you fight Level 47-50 pirates on the beaches just north of Bald Knoll they drop lots of Faerie apples. It's a great place to grind too as they drop gil and Ala Mhigan Mustard. I see you have Lancer at 50 so you shouldn't have a problem, but you might want to get a party with one of your lower level classes around 45 and grind there instead.

[Irana]

If you fight Level 47-50 pirates on the beaches just north of Bald Knoll they drop lots of Faerie apples. It's a great place to grind too as they drop gil and Ala Mhigan Mustard. I see you have Lancer at 50 so you shouldn't have a problem, but you might want to get a party with one of your lower level classes around 45 and grind there instead.

That sounds perfect! Im gonna give that a try later!!! thank you <3

[Kinseykinz]

My botanist is 25 just enough to get plenty of tries form the trees near Emerald Moss which should be giving a lot of apples...

I hit the tree on the apples spot which is +2 on the line

You should be high enough rank to get apples (and you are doing everything right). They are however, one of the harder items to get to drop. So upping the gears might help (if you aren't wearing good gathering gears already). Also, maybe try some of the mobs people have suggested as you might be able to gather more apples quicker with your rank 50 DOW's than running back and forth chopping trees with your lower level BTN.

Also, if you have the leves to burn, do CUL leves. These help you to rank at an okay pace without having to farm a lot of mats. (CUL is very mat heavy atm...and worse, less people sell them). If you have FSH ranked (or a FSH friend), grinding on fish might be easier/better depending on how fast you want to rank CUL. (I ranked cooking food for sale/ls friends and really never did the fish thing, but others seemed to level quickly that way.)

Good luck

[Irana]

If you have FSH ranked (or a FSH friend), grinding on fish might be easier/better depending on how fast you want to rank CUL. (I ranked cooking food for sale/ls friends and really never did the fish thing, but others seemed to level quickly that way.)

Good luck

Yeah I got to my rank 36 culinarian thanks to having FSH at more or less the same rank...was leveling them together xD but at this point is hard to find a good fish to get decent experience for my culinarian and apple juice gives me a nice 500~ or more depending on the +% for quality