The hell was square thinking with mining/botanist.

[ethyreal]

Is anyone noticing higher experience on gathering classes? My miner is only level 14 right now so maybe it's too low to notice the difference and my BOT is 50 so I don't get experience so it's hard to tell.

You should notice it if you do fieldcraft levequests those seem like a 200% buff per turn in. But your right in that until you get higher in level you'll not notice as you need to little experience per level in comparison to the upper levels, hell even in the mid low 20s it started to feel like a huge grind without leve's.

[Xerius]

Is anyone noticing higher experience on gathering classes? My miner is only level 14 right now so maybe it's too low to notice the difference and my BOT is 50 so I don't get experience so it's hard to tell.

After going back and reading the patch I found out that the higher exp doesn't even begin until level 16. Perhaps I should read the patch notes in the future before I open my mouth. XD

[DukeBurden]

Hey, guys. How long was the update for FFXIV? I'm currently at work so I have to wait to get home and do it on my PS3. Curious to see what the updates did to Botany and some of the level 50 dungeons. I wish they'd tell us exactly what they did versus just giving us a brief bullet.

[Hwasung]

Hey, guys. How long was the update for FFXIV? I'm currently at work so I have to wait to get home and do it on my PS3. Curious to see what the updates did to Botany and some of the level 50 dungeons. I wish they'd tell us exactly what they did versus just giving us a brief bullet.

My level 29 miner is seeing xp gains from regular mining in the neighborhood of 50% for a successful chain of 4 on a node. Was getting ~830 xp last night per 4-chain and seeing 1200+ xp today on the same nodes at the same level.

[DukeBurden]

A buddy of mine suggested I level weaving and carpentry while I gather. Crafting seems easy enough in this game. I could level weaving to 50 in like 2 types of ingreds from what I\\'ve read. People just cap 50 using flax. I\\'ll just get around to that when I finish botany. I don\\'t feel any rush to level crafting when they all use the same formula. Use a low leve, spam to 50.

[MrObject]

The point of gathering professions is the grind, it's a deterrent to stop everyone from raising them. If everyone raises both gathering professions then people like me who rely on mining for my income will no longer make any income alone. After this hotfix I am now regretting leveling mining, I might just leave it at 48 since it's becoming more and more of a waste of time.

Has anyone even been following the prices of darksteel and gold ore? I predict they'll be at 100 and 50 gil each respectively. HQ will most likely drop to 200 and 300-400 as well... I have absolutely no clue as to the reasoning behind raising the xp for mining and botany, I was getting 1 mining level per 30 mins using leves. You don't have any leves? So save them up like I did and level using that method, you don't need mining at 50 yesterday.

[DukeBurden]

The point of gathering professions is the grind, it's a deterrent to stop everyone from raising them. If everyone raises both gathering professions then people like me who rely on mining for my income will no longer make any income alone. After this hotfix I am now regretting leveling mining, I might just leave it at 48 since it's becoming more and more of a waste of time.

Has anyone even been following the prices of darksteel and gold ore? I predict they'll be at 100 and 50 gil each respectively. HQ will most likely drop to 200 and 300-400 as well... I have absolutely no clue as to the reasoning behind raising the xp for mining and botany, I was getting 1 mining level per 30 mins using leves. You don't have any leves? So save them up like I did and level using that method, you don't need mining at 50 yesterday.

This. Making it faster to level gathering jobs is going to hurt the economy. Gathering = work. WORK for your gil!

[Xerius]

Has anyone even been following the prices of darksteel and gold ore? I predict they'll be at 100 and 50 gil each respectively. HQ will most likely drop to 200 and 300-400 as well.

I understand where you're coming from but to make money in a MMO is the same as making money in the real world you have to know how to navigate the market. Even if everyone started the game with level 50 miners it would still require the same amount of work to gather the materials. Honestly, in terms of gathering the best most reliable money is always going to be in crystals because their needed by every crafter for every craft they do. The other thing is you have to know how much the market can handle if you go out and havest 12 stacks of darksteel ore thinking you're gonna make a killing you're wrong. You're just going to flood the market and drive the price down.

[Husband]

What is the point of these jobs?

in 1.0 we could do Hamlet Defence as DoL and DoH... really hope this is brought back in some shape or form

[DannyNobuser]

everyone complains at the exp that miner and bot get. there is a dramatic difference in the amount of exp gotten from 10. too 2.0 my piece of advice quit whining and play the game it does not take half as long to lvl from 1.0 to 2.0