Botany makes me question my self worth.

[Brisbanoch]

I am at level 43 Botany, and I have to say it is without a doubt the most mindless grind I have ever endured in a video game. Is there something I am missing, or is it really just a monumental grind? Right now it is something like 250-275 nodes per level, just makes no sense at all.

[Feilina]

Seriously, what did you expect?

Did ou inform yourself what gathering was in version 1.x ?

[des]

Do leves, exp rewards from them are pretty huge.

[Draegnar]

Gathering leves give you just over 3% xp in return you get no materials, i'd hardly call that huge :P

[Shiji]

Gathering leves give you just over 3% xp in return you get no materials, i'd hardly call that huge :P

Depends on the leve I would say. When I was doing a leve around 22 it was giving me the exp PLUS double if I fulfilled the optional requirement, not to mention the exp from gathering. Only trade off being like you said no materials.

Leves are good but, yeah it will be a grind.

[Tigrress]

took under 3 hours to go from 47 to 50 miner using levequests. I would say that's pretty damn fast.

[Matrioshki]

Gathering takes no resources or investment (other than gear) to accomplish. It's designed to be a grind.

I will tell you that doing my CRP and ALC at the same time has kept my Botanist very busy trying to get HQ items to complete Tradecraft Leves for them. But if you're a stand alone BOT just slamming away at nodes..... You're right... but that's how you chose to do it.

[Trife]

I am at level 43 Botany, and I have to say it is without a doubt the most mindless grind I have ever endured in a video game. Is there something I am missing, or is it really just a monumental grind? Right now it is something like 250-275 nodes per level, just makes no sense at all.

The games not even been out a couple weeks and you're already at level 43. I have a feeling you don't know what a "grind" is.

[geekgirl101]

I sort of have to agree, while I can HQ crafts and get 200%+ xp per craft if I don't break it there's nothing special for botanists. It's the same low xp every time. I'm constantly trying to catch up with botanist to keep up with the other crafts.

[Dakre]

If you could focus on HQ items as a gathering class, it would go by faster, but that's kinda hard at least until later (50+)