Gathering Fatigue

[Urthdigger]

I've heard gathering fatigue sets in after a while, reducing your rate of getting items, or even upright stopping you from getting anything, sort of like fishing fatigue from FFXI. What I want to know is:

1: How many gatherings do I have to do before this happens?
2: Is this one fatigue across all three disciplines, or does each one have their own fatigue?
3: Does gathering with my off-hand tool affect it?

[Raldo]

1: A lot. I'm told like... 500 gathers, but I cannot confirm.

2: I don't think so, but I can't confirm.

3: Probably, but again, can't confirm.

[MertonBranford]

Yesterday I harvested for 3 hours, then quarried for around 2 hours, then harvested again 4 more hours. Today I noticed my gathering rate dropped significantly, but who knows if it's fatigue? Some sort of message or "visual help" would be cool...

[Airget]

The "notification" you receive for Logging/Mining is that you damaged the piece, if you know you should be getting it but receive the message that you damaged it then that means Fatigue is starting to kick in.

As far as I know the fatigue is unique for each DoL which means it includes both and it's not 6 seperate fatigues. So if you were to log for hours and then hit fatigue your chances are successfully harvesting would also be affected however if you decided to go mining you should be perfectly fine.

As mentioned above it is A LOT just to hit fatigue if you do it in one day you would have to be logging nonstop for like 3-6hrs lol.

[Raymeo]

Edit: Further testing has been done. This post was very incorrect. Jump to below post for dataz.

dataz n' stuffz

[Urthdigger]

Thank you all very much for the information

[Raldo]

Those are some bold statements considering how difficult it would be to actually figure out that information. I'd take all that with a grain of salt unless there's some actually concrete testing behind it.

[Raymeo]

Today's Test

Began mining at Cedarwood at roughly 2:00 pm. Had my first break at roughly 8:20 pm.

Time elapsed: Approx. 6 hours and 20 minutes.

Point breakdown
Mined successfully: 502 times
Quarried successfully: 80 times (1 item each time)
Missed quarrying: 18 times
Accidental breaks from mining: 4

Edit: This data was used to supplement further testing. Jump to below post for dataz and conclusions.

dataz n' concluzionz

[Duuude007]

1: How many gatherings do I have to do before this happens?
Difficult to perfect, but the higher average rank the items gathered is, the faster fatigue sets in. About 2-3 hours at grade 5, if you are quick to travel between nodes at lvl 50.

2: Is this one fatigue across all three disciplines, or does each one have their own fatigue?
Miner, Fisher, and Botanist have their own independant fatigue.

3: Does gathering with my off-hand tool affect it?
Fatigue is shared between mainhand and offhand

[Raymeo]

1: How many gatherings do I have to do before this happens?
Difficult to perfect, but the higher average rank the items gathered is, the faster fatigue sets in. About 2-3 hours at grade 5, if you are quick to travel between nodes at lvl 50.

What's the source of this information?