Retainer Level?

[LlenCoram]

The two comments above say exactly what worries me the most. "They can do this if you don't feel like it" or "it gets done if you're busy." I'm a gatherer, I like gathering, and I like supplying what I gather to other people. That's what makes an economy work. With this SE sanctioned botting, it turns gathering from an actual profession to "just some nuisance. Let the bot handle it."

I'm usually too busy gathering to ever bother with crafting. Therefore, my retainer should craft for me.

So far exactly what I predicted would happen is happening. All the people who've said they like this proposed system, or the new gathering system, are generally people who enjoy crafting or fighting far more than gathering, if at all. Unfortunately these are the people I feel the new gathering system is aimed at, instead of people who actually enjoy gathering. Please try to put yourself in our shoes. If tomorrow they released a brand new combat system - one where you run up to a mob, click it, and a dice roll decids whether you kill it or not - as a way to "streamline combat because who cares about that, crafting is far more important," the people who like combat the most in the game would be up in arms. It's a similar thing here.