Offhand Gathering Grade 5

[Feanturo]

Anyone else got the problem when gathering at Grade 5 with your Offhandtool you gain so many Colours what makes it a pain to the ass, to get at least a decent amount of stuff you really need.

For example Laurel leaves or Sagolii leaves i ended up with

140 Blue = 140 Gatheres
50 Cloves = ~15 Gathers (mostly got 4 per attempt)
45 Laurel = ~ 12 Gathers
130 Moko Grass = ~ 30 Gathers (mostly 4 or 5 per attempt)

at least a little bit slower rate of colours dropping would be nice, cause no one needs soo many Paint cause you aint get SP for dying cloth.

Anyone else got this or am i just unlucky?

Br Fean

[HiirNoivl]

Hello there from Nine Ivies! I'm currently Getting Giggy with it. I haven't been counting my attempts and successes so I can't say for sure if I'm getting too much paint, but I do have 2.5 stacks of Purple Dye.

Edit:



Hmm... you might have a point.

[Raldo]

Most dyes are where the money is. I'm certainly not complaining.

[HiirNoivl]

Well, its okay if gils what you're after... but I'm after seals and the GC is asking for box turtles, not dye. =/

It really should be more balanced.

[Raldo]

Sell dyes, buy turtles.

/shrug

Edit: I realize the wards may be devoid of turtles. Replace turtles with some other item the GC is asking for. I'm not saying it shouldn't be changed to give less dye, but I'm sure not complaining how it is right now. Money money money moooooooooney~♪

[HiirNoivl]

Don't you think the shortage of turtles might be related to the issue with the imbalanced gathering results? And putting so much dye on the market so that it sells in time to turn the gil into turtles would likely mean some serious undercutting. And that would mean I'd get less gil to turn into turtles.***

Meaning either way, I don't get much seals.

***or anything else the GC is asking for

[Raldo]

I'm pretty sure there's a shortage of turtles because Fishers have no reason to spearfish. Did they remove the ability to get them while fishing? I am not a fisher, but I thought you used to be able to fish them up in... Horizon? I could be completely wrong.

I understand where you're coming from, and I'm fine with a reduction in dyes if SE decided that's for the best, but I also like the idea of certain materials being rare.

[Feanturo]

as it is on Lindblum there is no Money in Colours cause there are soo many in the wards due to this there are so many Gatherers and all seem to have the same horrible Colour yield and the time it takes to sell 140 Colours is just not worth effort, have been undercutting the prise now for 6 Days ended up now with 700 Gil / Colour and only sold 4 Pieces xD

So maybe you are lucky and there are not many Gatherer on your server so you can sell them @ a decent rate.

[Rukkirii]

Thank you guys for bringing this concern up.

Since there are only a few replies to this topic, I wanted to post and see what a wider group of people thought about the issue. Let us know what you think and we'll be sure to pass it along to the dev. team!

[HiirNoivl]

Thanks Rukkirii.

There is a very small request just to even out the gathering rewards in Offhand Grade 5 so that it is more even. It's ok to get dye, but getting dye in 7 out of 8 tries is stressful.