Hey, guys. I started Botany last week. Just got to 31.5 tonight before maintenance started. I think Botany and Mining levels at a perfect pace considering it only takes 1.5hrs per level. The way i'm looking at is i'm trying to complete my logging achievements so I stopped using levequests for leveling and making every swing count. Not only do you get materials to sell like this but you're working on your achievement. I know the Axe of the Luminary has the SAME STATS as the quest axe but I read somewhere that SE might implement using the Luminary Axe as an upgradable tool. To me, this is probably what they intended with making each swing low exp. The point of gathering jobs is to WORK. With this new update coming out tomorrow, I feel it's gonna hurt the economy with letting everyone level gathering jobs faster. Botany/Mining is perfect the way it is, I wish they weren't changing it for whiners that don't know how to put in work in an MMO.