The hell was square thinking with mining/botanist.

[Ksenia]

The gatherer's economy is already a mess and I think that the huge stacks of ore people accumulate when leveling is a primary cause to this. Earning potential of high level mining pales embarrassingly next to spiritbonding gear or some of the crafting classes.

Having people gather probably 5-10 tradecrafts worth of ore per level was probably not a smart design decision.

Been saying this for months. It's distorted and creates bottlenecks in the beast mats and Shards. The system is ripe for RMT.

Post 30 they fall off hard, the XP TNL starts to greatly outpace the total XP you get under a scroll(80k+40k bonus). By mid 30s, a scroll, with rested XP isn't even a level. A bit after 40, you'll need 2 scrolls with rested XP for both to level. 49-50, you'll need 3 scrolls with full rested XP for all 3 and you still won't get to 50. And your XP per hit gets comparatively horrible each level. Even with scrolls you'll get a fairly large surplus of raw materials unless you use the extremely inefficient gathering leves I mean you only need like 8 to go from 49-50.

OW exper never scaled in FF14. They are terrified of people leveling in the OW and I'm pretty sure Gathering shares its exper resources with OW combat so they can't fix Gathering as long as they have this fetish with blocking OW leveling of combat.