The hell was square thinking with mining/botanist.

[TH4C]

Where are the leves for mining after lvl 15? I'm 25 now and I haven't seen a mining leve since I left Drybone in East Than.

Try the adventurer guilds.

[Riion]

Try the adventurer guilds.

I did. Usually I go there to avoid wasting a leve on unlocking a levemate, and for my DOH leves it works. I've gotten a new set every five levels or so without unlocking any new levemates. However, this is not the case for my DOL class. They just stopped after lvl 15. I'm wondering if I may have to unlock the DOL leves through the levemate. I read that lvl 30 mining leves are in Costa Del Sol. Maybe there's just are no mining leves for 20-29.

[Scotchio]

You can get lvl 20-25 mining leves in Quarrymill

[SkyfangRauss]

DoL gathering was more involved and less find node > press enter repeatedly back in 1.0 but they got rid of that. Presumably because some loud people didn't like it.

the mining/gathering 'minigame' in 1.0 was absolutely horrendous

i'm not saying the current mining/gathering doesn't have it issues, but i'll gladly deal with slow leveling over that abomination that was 1.0 mining/gathering

[Kijimea]

Can someone pls tell me what is the "luminary axe"? Whats special abt it and what is needed to get it?

[Riot55]

The thing you guys dont seem to realize, is that yoshi made fishing into a hobby class, while mining and botany stayed the same. Its about 2-3 recipes using fish thats worth your time, how much can you make with mining?

I'm glad people think this and didn't level fishing, because I am making 25k an hour fishing at the moment. =)

[Tigrress]

I disagree with it being horrendous. What it is now has made it a mindless grind. At least before there was something to it.

[Chazychaz]

You also have to remember that fishing gives you a random item. So it could take a while to even hit the fish you are looking for Material wise. Mining and Botany you can choose what you are farming. Makes it extremely easy to farm one specific material. I'm leveling my blacksmithing with my Mining and selling my crafted items. If you do Botany with Blacksmithing, there's almost always something that uses just the ingots and wood from the same level so it makes it ultra easy to level Armoursmithing or blacksmithing while gathering your mats.

[KevinC]

Yeah let's make it easier so everyone can level it to 50 in 2-3 days and destroy the economy...

[WellFooled]

I'm only level a level 20 botanist currently, so take this with a grain of salt, but I feel it's just about right. It is grindy, but you can break that up with leves and the game offers a lot of ways to break up the monotony (for example w/ FATE popping up around you or class quests every few levels). Right now it does take a decent sized time commitment to level which makes it an accomplishment, but if it were any easier than leveling up would mean little.