Botanist's can grow things too.

[Illy]

I would love growing in the game but I doubt it would work as a stand alone class. Being that growing will(and should) take a bit of time as it did in FFXI it would be nearly impossible to balance as far as leveling goes. It would either be near impossible to level or would be leveled far to quickly making it useless as everyone would do it. The only real way it would work is via Botanist.

The obvious way to balance that out is to have a similar activities on the other gathering classes. Fishing could have some kind of different fishing type(perhaps a way of going after very large fish that is different then normal fishing) and while I can't think of anything for Miner I'm sure either someone or SE could.

It just doesn't make sense to make gardening it's own class. Barring adding it as a another thing for BTN they should just add it as a random thing for everyone to do regardless of class like it was in XI.

[Shyd]

Would be neat, but not easily balanced. Also the Dev's would have to setup a "Moghouse" or a "Warehouse" type instance. Doubt we would garden in the pockets or the bazzars.

[Dras6fin]

Would be neat, but not easily balanced. Also the Dev's would have to setup a "Moghouse" or a "Warehouse" type instance. Doubt we would garden in the pockets or the bazzars.

So something like this then:

DoW "Armory"
DoM "Mushroom Hut"
DoH "Workshop"
DoL "Greenhouse"

for each to put our items and the things we collect, grow, and create ... its a possibility yes.

[Vahzl]

I like the idea of a gardening class. Used to love growing my ores and gathering saplings in 11.

[EdenArchangel]

I dream of an Eorzea where miners actually mine in mines and caves, botanists can also maintain their own garden, and fishers can work a small fishery (perhaps pulling up two really rare fish -> put in fishery -> baby fish farm :3)

Diversity for the win!

[Zahak]

Miners can layout the landscape of the garden/tank. Say building a lizard cage for your house! Miners can design the rocky/sandy ecosystem it needs. botanists can design the floral aspects and fishers can build aquariums or such!!

I want my lizard tanks!

[Yoohre_WildRiver]

i think if gardening is implemented it should be some sort of mini game for all class, but Bot taking a big part of it. something like ALL classes can have gardenenig pots, only Botanist can aquire Seed from the field nodes, also Bots have an ability tha benefits them in gardening ( higher yields , more changes to get Hq items ).

[Dras6fin]

i think if gardening is implemented it should be some sort of mini game for all class, but Bot taking a big part of it. something like ALL classes can have gardenenig pots, only Botanist can aquire Seed from the field nodes, also Bots have an ability tha benefits them in gardening ( higher yields , more changes to get Hq items ).

I like your post but I have to say No about sharing with other classes for growing things, for now anyway. [maybe if greenhouses, inside or outside gardens, etc were available every class could enter and partake, but only Botanist's could work there. ]

Why do I say No? Think is we call are selves Gatherers maybe because we know somewhere deep inside what we have been doing until now is Not Botany At All, more like a Woodsman or lumberjack Gathering Class. I'm not sure about everyone else but I think most would agree. Botanist gather "Lumber/Wood" & "Feathers" etc.. but that's not correct, these is botany right?, gathering should be towards "Flowers" & "Plants" etc.

I have be waiting patiently for the "Botanist" to blossom and grow to what it should been from the start : The Study and Understanding of All Plant-Life; Activities are towards; Studying, Discovery, Researching, Nurturing, Resource Gathering, Growing new Trees&Plants, Plants/Flowers, Attraction of Trees/Plant Essences, Herbs/Medicines, etc. Both for Gathering And Botany. There are Resources Gathering but that's a woodcutting, it not right.

It's the Tools, and the Knowledge we hold that limits the fantasy, the class becomes defined, if only there were more options, or and the current tools had more usages.

As for Potting what would DoM/DoM/DoH need it for?, however I could understand as a DoW/DoM wanted to have gil pots or magic pots;( lol Magic Pot), is that it?. [also switch Tools and their you have it your a gatherer.]

[Lienn]

Well, a good way to make things even between all 3 DoL would be BTN having gardening, where he can harves exclusive stuff, FSH having aquarium, where he can grow exclusive fishes (more like a piscine) and MIN having an archeological rock, where you can extract stuff like old eggs, fossils, ambers and all kind of exclusive jurassic park stuff =P

[normalforce]

Well, a good way to make things even between all 3 DoL would be BTN having gardening, where he can harves exclusive stuff, FSH having aquarium, where he can grow exclusive fishes (more like a piscine) and MIN having an archeological rock, where you can extract stuff like old eggs, fossils, ambers and all kind of exclusive jurassic park stuff =P

Wow, if I could, I'd put you in charge of making that happen!