The point of gathering professions is the grind, it's a deterrent to stop everyone from raising them. If everyone raises both gathering professions then people like me who rely on mining for my income will no longer make any income alone. After this hotfix I am now regretting leveling mining, I might just leave it at 48 since it's becoming more and more of a waste of time.

Has anyone even been following the prices of darksteel and gold ore? I predict they'll be at 100 and 50 gil each respectively. HQ will most likely drop to 200 and 300-400 as well... I have absolutely no clue as to the reasoning behind raising the xp for mining and botany, I was getting 1 mining level per 30 mins using leves. You don't have any leves? So save them up like I did and level using that method, you don't need mining at 50 yesterday.