Casual gathering should be casual. If you want low level NQ items, one click and BAM you get it... this system is great for people who don't want to spend a whole lot of time gathering low level or NQ mats they need and filling their inventory with useless junk in the hours it takes to get just 1 stack of what they were actually aiming for!!

*takes a breath*

That said, there should be another level for HQ. This would be for all the people who spent HOURS hunting HQ darksteel which gather rate was a 14% if you stacked yourself to the gills with perception on a GOOD day. And that's just among darksteel. You would have 2 stacks of NQ darksteel by the time you got one stack of HQ steel and that was doing good??? Not to mention that hoards of other crap you gathered like zinc.......

Don't even get me STARTED on low level mats in high level areas.

*takes 2 breaths* Ok Hiir just keep it together... let the memories fade...

*ahem* HQ gathering should be like HQ crafting, methodical, sensible, and most of all, intentional. We should be able to gather HQ mats the way we make HQ items, with a bar, with abilities, with skill.

Ok I'm done now...