Well I'm a decent lvl crafter and gatherer atm i think it was 29 mobbing and 31 goldshmith and I have no problems with my materials true I run out of shards every now and then but then I farm up for a hour or so and I can lvl up futher no issues there I also have like 90 allowence left and enough materials for my crafter to get 5 lvlin no time so my plan is to get my minner to 30ish gather some mats that I dullness at a later stage and then boost him to 40ish with leavequests. At that point I suspect there will be nodes with triple quadruple item gain what will result in me getting around 20 shards or other materials from one node (i already got plenty locations with rubble held with some skils making it tripple)