[dev1039] How does this work?

[TirionCrey]

All I can say is what has changed for me since the patch, and that is Mining on my current Rank became a random calculated luck game again, which makes me completely furious.

I'm 31MIN, I mine on Grade 4 since 28, mostly Silver for my BSM grind and GSM later on. I know all the Nodes at Humblehearth which have Silver in it. Going by the Remainder Bar I was able to determine which item I'll dig up(at least 90% of the time, since Silver shares the same Remainder Bar with Obsidian). Silver Ore/Sand was usually in between the Center and Middle Circle of the Mini-Game(90% of the time at least). It was consistant and made Gathering "enjoyable" cause it was my "own" skill that made it easier for me to gather, not something that was "calculated" by the game.

Now, since the patch the situation is completely different. Silver Ore/Sand is just at any Circle Area and it changes almost any gathering attempt. This is me on MIN31 on Grade 4 Nodes with capped VIT...so which Rank does SE want me to get to to have Silver Ore/Sand at a fixed location...before the patch it took me 2 hits max to get my Silver...now it can take me up to 4 damn hits because Silver is just anywhere.

Conclusion: Why does SE have to get a really good patch ready and then change something, that was all fine and worked for everybodey(Disciples of the Land will have fun changing/theorycrafting all the information again...) into a stupid Random BS...cause that's what is right now for me. If R31 is not enough to get me a fixed location for Silver...what Rank am I supposed to get to for something as common as Silver?????

All I can say now is, Mining became annoying for me(and I really liked Mining before the patch)...cause before it had a pattern that I could follow, now its just stupid Random nonsense. And if there is anything FFXIV needs right now, its not RANDOM calculated nonsense.