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    Player
    Polaritie's Avatar
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    Rose Wilde
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    Sargatanas
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    Arcanist Lv 70
    Quote Originally Posted by LunaRhiki View Post
    Totally agree on this topic. It makes no since to have drops off of mobs. Drops that come from so few mobs, and that you must compete for, but the mats that drop from DoL nodes are done solo. Kinda bites SE that I can harvest nearly 300 Flax in the south shroud in about 2 hours, but in the same time period, I'd be lucky to get 20 fleece.
    This pretty much sums it up - I can harvest flax well into excess, but fleece? Not happening. Two people with good reflexes can pretty much claim ALL the Karakul spawns on their own. Diremites are slightly more spread out (in that there are three points, rather than two), but it's still pretty bad.
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    Oppie Mortis
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    Excalibur
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    Culinarian Lv 50

    Yes more mobs or something.

    In many crafting jobs there are times when you need 1 or more ingredients and you want to craft that item usually multiple times.

    Then you go to farm what you need only to find it will only drop off of a certain mob and then in the zone there is only a total of 8-10 max, and ohh look it also happens to come from a mob used in a quest, so now you have to compete against any one doing the quest that needs the mobs or even other farmers. Don't get me wrong I understand and don't mind competition but when there are so few mobs to start with it is damn annoying especially when it happens over and over while trying to farm your materials instead of forking over the price off the market boards.

    To fix you Could add more mobs that drop the current materials or could leave it the way it is but drastically increase the drop rates and drop amounts of crafting materials.
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    RisikaClarenille's Avatar
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    Rissillia Vellichor
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    Hyperion
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    Astrologian Lv 70
    I don't think this is a totally unreasonable request. There's a lot of open space in Coerthas to add more sheep if it's too, for "realistic" sake, unlikely find balls of wool in a harvesting point. However if I can find a cocoon from a mob that doesn't even exist in the game I think I can find a web from one that does in a random bush.
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    Player Gemma's Avatar
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    Saskia Sinwolf
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    Sargatanas
    Main Class
    Archer Lv 73
    I have to agree its driving me crazy when I need to go farm HQ mats and there's a bunch of ppl farming it too either for mats as well or for quests. Not only do they need to add a few more spawning areas I also thin they should bring back quest mobs like they had in 1.0

    They don't drop anything and give crap xp, they are specifically for the quests. That way ppl can farm mats & others can do their quests without having to compete.
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    Mialin Leingod
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    Moogle
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    Arcanist Lv 50
    Who the heck tought this was a good idea to have mob drop Main crafting material? Node i get, but 6-7 mobs outside a camp where people fate farm. And you need this all the way to 50.

    Make Fleece on a node not a monster drop! Or make more mobs drop them, how am i suppose to level weaver when there is 50 other people trying to kill a mob at the same time?

    Oh, do it during the night duh. Still people there! And some people gotta work, that leaves some people at 4 hours during peek times. Which is 6-10. Then there is more people there!
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    Sesile Kokoro
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    Hyperion
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    Lancer Lv 100
    They should just create a new gathering class for monsters. Like zooligist or biologist. Or something. Can use shears and taxidermy knife as its tools. Then just spawn corpses to gather from in the level appropriate area. (or happy little monster that don't need to be killed for their wool/feathers/eggs). And if they want to limit the influx of items just make longer respawn of the critters. Then also add a chance for all uncommon trade items to drop from monsters, so you can either kill for random drops or harvest specific ones.
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    Player avecha's Avatar
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    Etoinelle Dolet
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    Ultros
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    Thaumaturge Lv 50
    Quote Originally Posted by Blindheart View Post
    They should just create a new gathering class for monsters. Like zooligist or biologist. Or something. Can use shears and taxidermy knife as its tools. Then just spawn corpses to gather from in the level appropriate area. (or happy little monster that don't need to be killed for their wool/feathers/eggs). And if they want to limit the influx of items just make longer respawn of the critters. Then also add a chance for all uncommon trade items to drop from monsters, so you can either kill for random drops or harvest specific ones.
    Sheep brush up against bushes and leave wool on it. All that needs to be done is add bushes with fleece for botany.
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    Flarestar Bladesinger
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    Malboro
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    Warrior Lv 70
    Primary crafting materials should always be on nodes, not on mobs. Weaving and leatherworking both have serious issues in this regard.

    If they want to put secondary materials on mobs that's... ok, although still not great, but at least that spreads people out some. The current system just promotes massive overpopulation for farming a very limited number of NPCs - a good chunk of which aren't even tradecrafters, they're just farming the stuff to sell on the market.
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    RisikaClarenille's Avatar
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    Rissillia Vellichor
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    Hyperion
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    Astrologian Lv 70
    Starting to see more and more threads being started about fleece problems. Would really help add more sheep. Had someone competing against me last night while I was trying to farm and actually started calling me vulgar names because he was trying to make money.
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    Zana Anbolho
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    Malboro
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    Arcanist Lv 50
    group up with others farming fleece or other materials. All in the party can receive drops and you won't have to fight over spawns.
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