The hell was square thinking with mining/botanist.

[Maku]

The exp boost was really nice. I was 31 when the boost fix hit and leveled to 33 harvesting Flax. Then I decided to try my first gathering leve. I never use my leves so I had a full 100. It took one day and 80 leves but I got from 33 to 50 in about 7hrs.

I had just under, probably 980ish, flax when done. I was able to level from 31 all the way to 41 by doing nothing but making linen thread. I am going to start making linen fabric which I am assuming will take me to at least 46 (I use a macro to increase quality as much as possible instead of just using quick synth and was getting about 3,400-4k exp per thread). It just seems ever so slightly out of balance still if I could manage to do that. ><

[LenLeander]

The real issue is not really that it's long or quick to lvl up....it's that it's boring as hell. SE did a great work with DoH which is fun and actually requires you to pay attention if you want to get HQ. With DoL you just have to click repeatedly and just hope the RNG will be nice with you... I wouldn't mind that leveling is long as long as it's fun...
This little boost in exp rewarded didn't really help... it's just less painful.
Also lag makes it even worst...

[coffeeking]

yup it's a grind