Quote Originally Posted by Peregrine View Post
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.