The hell was square thinking with mining/botanist.

[Hekla]

Greetings,

The development team is aware that the experience points awarded to botanists and miners is somewhat lower than what is awarded to fishers. As such, during the Hot Fix that will take place next week, we will be increasing the experience earned gained by these two classes.

I feel like I've just been punched in the stomach. I worked very hard to level MIN & BOT and now that it's lv.50, you want to increase the experience points gained while leveling? Not very happy about this.

[roohan]

I feel like I've just been punched in the stomach. I worked very hard to level MIN & BOT and now that it's lv.50, you want to increase the experience points gained while leveling? Not very happy about this.

This is standard MMO buisness. I almost needed a full year to get my first level 75 job in FFXI. Now you can get level 99 in less than a month. I think better adjust it now instead of many months later when even more people did it the hard way.

[TohruHonda]

I feel like I've just been punched in the stomach. I worked very hard to level MIN & BOT and now that it's lv.50, you want to increase the experience points gained while leveling? Not very happy about this.

I am let down by this too but this is how it goes, people just want hand outs. It wasn't even that difficult to level either.

[Quanta]

Greetings,

The development team is aware that the experience points awarded to botanists and miners is somewhat lower than what is awarded to fishers. As such, during the Hot Fix that will take place next week, we will be increasing the experience earned gained by these two classes.

This is a good change, but I think it's just a band-aid fix for what are probably the worst designed classes in the game right now. There's no cross-class synergy to be found between the three Gathering classes (Fisher in particular is the worst, having zero cross-class skills) and the supply chain is completely messed up, with an over abundance of materials flooding the markets at every tier, though that's more a symptom of the low exp gains that anything else. I really hope the design team has plans to update the gathering classes to be more in tune with the crafting and battle classes as far as synergy goes.

[Onyxys]

Greetings,

The development team is aware that the experience points awarded to botanists and miners is somewhat lower than what is awarded to fishers. As such, during the Hot Fix that will take place next week, we will be increasing the experience earned gained by these two classes.

Please. NO no no!!! Online game is a kind of game, where something can be reached by spending a lot of time. IT MUST BE SO!!!! The game is already booring on 50 level. Now, with this "fix" botanist and miner will reach 50 level for 1-2 weeks. Is it right? Dear Hvinire, if developers make this "fix" they compleatly destroy game interest and destroy ingame economy. Please, dear Hvinire. Dont let to make you fool. If fishers gain too much exp- it is FISHERS, who must be nerfed, but not UPing botanists and miners. Please, listen to my words!!!

[roohan]

All these people yelling... You guys do understand that earlier or later there will be a ton of miners and botanists anyways, right? Everything rapidly drops in price on the market boards the last two weeks like crazy. Instead of blocking people from enjoying the botanist and miner Job you should blame the crafting and armor system. Crafters are the persons who level pretty damn fast and don't really need all the materials you gather. Every damn piece of armor can be obtained from quests or dungeon so crafters AND gatherers don't get involved. People leveling botanist/miner faster now is not the biggest issue here.

It's the whole system that doesn't work at the moment. And really lower XP doesn't really prevent people from leveling miner or botanist. It might be a slower process, but at the and they gonna do it anyways.

[Khalette]

Greetings,

The development team is aware that the experience points awarded to botanists and miners is somewhat lower than what is awarded to fishers. As such, during the Hot Fix that will take place next week, we will be increasing the experience earned gained by these two classes.

I'm in my twenties, so I'm not sure if this has been implemented and/or if it's increased good. Anyone noticing a difference?

[SkyfangRauss]

I'm in my twenties, so I'm not sure if this has been implemented and/or if it's increased good. Anyone noticing a difference?

its happening during the hotfix on the 14-15 of October (depending on where you live)

[DNO]

Can I ask a stupid question. How do you make money off fishing? is it food or what?

[Phogg]

Fishing supplies crafting materials mainly to cooking and alchemy classes.