The hell was square thinking with mining/botanist.

[KisaiTenshi]

We had a minigame/ QTE in 1.0. People complained and they took it out. Now you just... select your item.

V1's was super slow, it would take 5 minutes to mine one node, and everything you got was RNG. All V2 needs to "fix" this is to shuffle the positions into quantities (eg if you have a higher rank DoL you either get 1xitem at 100% or 2xitem at 60% or something)

Instead of making Miner and Botanist even more pointless by making it super easy to level you guys should have focused more on making crafting and gathering classes worth a damn at endgame instead of borderline useless.

I'll agree that crafting seems to be completely pointless since everyone can just buy non-HQ gear from NPC's. How about making the NPC's actually "buy" the items from retainers for the best price passed along to the player when an item is bought from a NPC?

[Tiraelina]

V1's was super slow, it would take 5 minutes to mine one node, and everything you got was RNG. All V2 needs to "fix" this is to shuffle the positions into quantities (eg if you have a higher rank DoL you either get 1xitem at 100% or 2xitem at 60% or something)

No, no it did not. If it ever took you longer than a minute you were doing it wrong. It's also ignoring that you had 8 attempts per node instead of this awful 4. Zero interactivity now and you spend even more time running around. Each node also had its own items, everything was not random.