Offhand Gathering Grade 5

[HiirNoivl]

Maybe give us off-hand abilities that allow us the players to 'gather' what we want. Here are some examples:

Botany Offhand: Dyehunter (raises dye drop rates but lowers all other drop item rates)
Textilefeeler (raises drop rate on cloth fibers but lowers all other drop rates)
Veggiefinder (raises drop rate on edibles but lowers all other item drop rates)
Fishing Offhand: Spearhunter (raises speared fish/reptile drop rate but lowers all other item drop rates)
Dyepoker (raises dye drop rates but lowers all other drop item rates)
Bugfinder (raises drop rates on bugs/insects but lowers all other drop rate)
Mining Offhand: Dyefinder (raises dye drop rates but lowers all other drop item rates)
*** my mining is level 0 so i have no other ideas on mining off-hand***

Also, make these abilities 'learnable' by obtaining certain levels. So maybe around level 10 BTN you learn "Veggie-finder". But have to wait until level 45 until you learn "Textile-Feeler". Oh, and DO drop the baseline drop rates of dyes, they are too high currently. Also, raise the rates of other items. Maybe even change it so that not every node in each zone drops dye. (similar to how Catalists work).


On current dye drop rates: Yes, the playerbase did ask for them to be raised, and SE did adjust accordingly, but that was back when the dye was a new thing AND required to raise the stats on your equipment. Now that dye is just a 'vanity' item and also now that we've had several months to allow the markets to build a supply, it is time to lower the dye rate drops...even if that is all that is done to 'fix' the off-hand problem.

That's a bit much... all they have to do is lower the drop rate a little. Nothing else is really needed.

[Kinseykinz]

That's a bit much... all they have to do is lower the drop rate a little. Nothing else is really needed.

Except some players like me really DO need to be able to 'select' what we're aiming for off-hand wise. We can with mainhand by changing our aim...this is a way to allow off-hand to do it. (You can keep it off if you don't care what you get off-hand). But I'm a CUL and I NEED Popatos, Tomatoes, Carrots etc. It would be far more efficient for me to just be able to switch to an ability that allows me to raise my gathering percentage on these items, than NPC/sell all the 'crappy' stuff I don't need...plus, with these kind of abilities I would be able to spend less time gathering...which I'm all for .

It was just an idea, they asked for ideas.

[LytheJade]

I would like to see dye moved to a rare item, and as more colors are added (as Yoshi implied), ways of choosing which dyes we would hunt for, or at least separated by nodes, and nothing more 20% rate on dyes should keep the amount of dyes at a rate that crafters would actually use.

[HiirNoivl]

I tried that and it didn't work.

[Kyra]

Way to much dye on grade 5 nodes. its ridiculous.

[zaviermhigo]

They need to implement the gathering system they talked about where you would be able to get what you want and not other useless crap. Honestly not only dyes, but you go to Grid you get flax out the ass, you go to LL you get more moko grass, go to uldah you get cotton bolls, these drop rates need to be reduced also. If anyone who doesn't have there wvr that level can just go do what everyone else did and do leves for the materials or gather them, just at a lower drop rate, no excuse to skew it heavily in the direction of those materials since the levels they support are low and easy to get through.

[Jinko]

I'd suggest separating the dyes to their own nodes.

You could have graphics such as blue flowers or yellow ore to signify what it is your gathering.

With Alchemy being revamped this patch how are we supposed to get the items needed to level.

[HiirNoivl]

Thanks Rukkirri for fixing this.

Thanks a lot guys. We really really appreciate it!

[Viritess]

As a low level botanist i'm bringing in a large amount of green dye, pre patch i'd find maybe 1 per or 0.5 per (every other node) on 6 gathering attempts on a single node (Off hand bronze sickle).

Now i'm pulling anywhere from 2-4 green dyes per node. And nearly no mats i need because of it T-T

If i was a panda i'd be a sad panda, a completely green dyed sad panda.