Yoshida says we have enough Disciples of the Land. Let's prove him wrong...

[Joe777]

I'll grant him this: it is indeed hard to come up with something useful to go with what we have now. However, what if what we need isn't something to get new material types but old material types? Therefore I propose this class: Hunter.

Disciples of the Land are classes that gather materials from nature. Well, aren't animals and beasts part of nature? So why not have a gathering class that can get meat, hides, and other various goods off such creatures at a far higher rate than simply killing mobs as a Disciple of War or Magic (which we already know has very low drop rates in expansion zones that make us rely on Retainers more than going out and farming)? You could even use different tools to acquire different types of materials, such as traps for hides or spears for meat.

Open to thoughts on the Hunter concept or anything else that might prove useful alongside Mining, Botany, and Fishing. Let's give YoshiP some good ideas for a 4th Disciple of the Land!

[Misstique]

Please NO!

My inventory space can't handle any more random crap or crafting mats. Along with the fact that gathering is the most boring thing in the world (Sorry, I can be a bit of a drama queen)

[Lilseph]

Well, the only way it could work that way is like they made it work in WoW. The corpse must remain on the field so you could skin it, sadly in this game it just vanishes a couple of seconds later. I personally think that the hunting itself is fine the way it is right now, you know... having the low drop rates we have. Retainers usually are a great help with some materials that are hard to farm, or were.

[Joe777]

Well, the only way it could work that way is like they made it work in WoW. The corpse must remain on the field so you could skin it, sadly in this game it just vanishes a couple of seconds later. I personally think that the hunting itself is fine the way it is right now, you know... having the low drop rates we have. Retainers usually are a great help with some materials that are hard to farm, or were.

Not if they make them like nodes, where a hunt creature would stand until you attack it, or you lay a trap at a designated spot and then wait for the creature to walk into it (the latter would have a waiting period similar to spearfishing).

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

I would welcome a gathering class that provides animal skins and other items that normally comes from mob drops only.

[Niqote]

While I love gathering, I also hate the item bloat that we have.

We need more uses for all the useless materials we already have before thinking about a new way to obtain all the useless materials we already have.

Retainers are already ''hunters'' and thats on top of just killing the mobs yourself; which encourages people to visit zones they might not have visited for a while

[Joe777]

While I love gathering, I also hate the item bloat that we have.

We need more uses for all the useless materials we already have before thinking about a new way to obtain all the useless materials we already have.

Retainers are already ''hunters'' and thats on top of just killing the mobs yourself; which encourages people to visit zones they might not have visited for a while

The drop rate, on the other hand, discourages going and farming them. Also some of the Stormblood recipes use low level mats. In fact... Urushi, which used to only be used in getting 1 of the Master Recipe Books in Revenant's Toll, is now used in the crafting of 1 of the Lv70 specialist recipes. Slowly but surely unused materials are being given new use... Indeed though item bloat is a very serious problem and would be easily remedied by the addition of a couple more retainers in my opinion.

[BigRed5392]

in 1.o there was going to be a shepherd class which was gonna handle the meat/skin of creatures.

they are right though, outside skin/meat what is really needed gathering wise. and you can farm skins by killing mobs. if anything fix the drop rate a lil

At least give 1 skin a mob with random chances to earn more. not enough mob drob in the game to really justify this though.

[Zumi]

We do have enough as is in my opinion.

[Joe777]

in 1.o there was going to be a shepherd class which was gonna handle the meat/skin of creatures.

they are right though, outside skin/meat what is really needed gathering wise. and you can farm skins by killing mobs. if anything fix the drop rate a lil

At least give 1 skin a mob with random chances to earn more. not enough mob drob in the game to really justify this though.

Well it is just a concept I threw out there as a means of getting another Disciple of the "Land" out there. Anyone can feel free to chime in anything they think might be better than a Hunter class. This thread is purely for brainstorming the possibility of a 4th DoL class.