This idea has been brought up occasionally for a long while, but I don't think SE would implement it since they likely want to leave some things for newbies to grind out to get some small amount of money before diving into DoH/DoL.

That said, I really wish they could find some way to implement something like this without freezing out the newbies. I can go out and gather a thousand ore no problem, but the RNG and attention involved in drops makes farming even 200 hides, crawler silks, etc. pure torment for me, and I'm happier to throw venture tokens at my retainers for a few days rather than to have to farm it myself.

I appreciate what they did with fate gems in SHB since you don't have to fuss with spawns and RNG, but it's still my least favorite sort of gathering by far even in gem form, and a DoL would suit me better.

Still don't think they'll do it, though.