Materia System

[Peregrine]

Yeah you can't necessarily exclude lowbie gatherers from getting catalysts but for christ's sakes you can't give rank 28 amateurs access to any catalyst that is supposed to have any worth at all...otherwise it won't. At all.

Rank 30 miner: not able to participate in Rank 40+catalyst economy.
Rank 40 miner: not able to participate in Rank 50 catalyst economy.
Rank 50 miner: The guy you go to to get catalyst for your rank 50 epic piece.

Bad: Scrub miners selling best catalysts for cutthroat glutted prices. IE the entire mining industry to date.

A rank 28 miner should be about as relevant as a rank 35 crafter. That is, not very relevant at all. A rank 28 miner should max out their catalyst power at about a Ironclad Cavalry bow, then be completely irrelevant to any higher materia activity. They should have NOTHING to do with what is done to crab bows. Not even close, they need to come back when they're a REAL miner, not a dabbler.

Rank 35 crafters have nothing to do with R40+crafting markets, and yet R35 gatherers can spam R60 level materials that crafters can't even use yet. No. Not more of that.

Or R30 miner: you dabble in piddle str point additions that no one cares about.
R40 miner: you dabble in better attributes like attack bonuses that destroy R30 miners.
R50 miner: you own the catalyst that gives double attack, and % bonuses that destroy R40 miners.

[Amineri]

A rank 28 miner should be about as relevant as a rank 35 crafter. That is, not very relevant at all. A rank 28 miner should max out their catalyst power at about a Ironclad Cavalry bow, then be completely irrelevant to any higher materia activity. They should have NOTHING to do with what is done to crab bows. Not even close, they need to come back when they're a REAL miner, not a dabbler.

Rank 35 crafters have nothing to do with R40+crafting markets, and yet R35 gatherers can spam R60 level materials that crafters can't even use yet. No. Not more of that.

It's even worse than that. I pretty much stopped mining when a horde of rank 1 to 10 players got White Stainsand before I could at a Grade 5 node. At the time I was rank 41.

It felt the same as if a zerg of rank 1 to 10 DoW/M could come along and kill the high rank NMs. That is to say, made it feel completely pointless ranking up miner.