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[Arcell]

So why are others complaining about not getting the item they want from a node? I'm confused. I've never touched botany before my rank is - but I'm just basing my opinion off of keeping up with the patch notes and others' complaints.

Before 1.19, there was a much wider variety of items you could get from a given node. An obnoxious amount even, it makes the current variation seem incredibly small. If you know what you're doing and where to place your attempts, you can almost guarantee yourself one of two or three items at most. If I want to gather logs, I can get logs well above 70% of the time. There is some slight variation but it's very little compared to what it used to be.

[Hayden]

Before 1.19, there was a much wider variety of items you could get from a given node. An obnoxious amount even, it makes the current variation seem incredibly small. If you know what you're doing and where to place your attempts, you can almost guarantee yourself one of two or three items at most. If I want to gather logs, I can get logs well above 70% of the time. There is some slight variation but it's very little compared to what it used to be.

I'm not sure if you are pro or con a smaller variation of items...but personally as somebody who has taken Miner from 1-50 over the course of all its various incarnations...I am very pleased with this. No need for 20 different items to NPC. I like having a smaller selection. If I want Mythril, Cobalt, Electrum, Iron, Silver, copper, Alumen, Raw Gem's, Brimstone, I know where to go. I didn't need THREE different incarnations of IRON (Iron Ore, Iron Sand, Limonite), I didn't need two types of copper, gold sand, dust and ore, silver sand.

I'm glad they trimmed the fat, so to speak.

[Arcell]

I'm not sure if you are pro or con a smaller variation of items...but personally as somebody who has taken Miner from 1-50 over the course of all its various incarnations...I am very pleased with this. No need for 20 different items to NPC. I like having a smaller selection. If I want Mythril, Cobalt, Electrum, Iron, Silver, copper, Alumen, Raw Gem's, Brimstone, I know where to go. I didn't need THREE different incarnations of IRON (Iron Ore, Iron Sand, Limonite), I didn't need two types of copper, gold sand, dust and ore, silver sand.

I'm glad they trimmed the fat, so to speak.

I'm certainly for the slimmed down list of possible items from a gathering action, however I think what they've got it down to now is pretty reasonable. I mean again, with only a reasonably small amount of variance, I am able to get the items I'm looking for without much work.