gathering needs an exp. boost

[JPPILIP]

Title says it all im a lvl 29 miner and it takes 155k exp to level up so as im gathering lvl 30 minerals I get 250 exp for normal quality and 750 for hq at chain of 4. Its sickening really. There has to be some way for S.E. to be able to increase the exp gains for the gathering classes. Its bad enough that gathering itself is a horribly grindy mind numbing experiences in itself. No wonder people are botting these classes.

If you have any suggestions please post what you think.

[Jynxii]

Fieldcraft leves will net you your gathering experience (ie 250 x4), plus a nice gil/exp bonus. (~300gil and ~6k experience, although it varies)
Grand Company provisioning missions can be done once every 24 (12?) hours and require you to gather 10 of a particular thing, and nets you nice experience. (got ~13k experience at level 28)
If you have GC seals to spare, be sure to pick up the books that increase you gathering experience by 50% for 3 hours. There is a 20k and a 40k version.

The books/experience boosts get consumed pretty quickly at later levels, but when you combine them with fieldcraft leves you can definitely increase the pace of leveling. Only real downside is that you don't end up having any actual materials gathered. I did a whole level gathering outside of leves to try and make a bit of money on the market place, and although my gil increased, the levelling pace was torture.

[Ruminate]

Yes, for the love of god please increase the XP on gathering. You need 300k to go from level 39 to 40. At level 39, I have an 85% chance to gain 300-400 XP from a level 40 item(my gear is all HQ, mostly melded with +gathering, so the chance is a lot higher than average).
Mind-numbing is an understatement.

[Issac]

No thanks. Everything else in this friggin game is already ADD-Level fast paced, please keep the gathering pace as is. It is a LOT better than 1.0 already, and really doesn't need to be any faster.

[Rhindas]

Actually it was much faster in the beta to the point people petitioned to have it reduced. And they did. You leveled ridiculously quickly through gathering jobs (well, maybe not so much fisher) with the exp you got plus Guildleves. It's still really fast with leves. I never use leves on combat jobs anymore because they're so much more useful for Hand and Land classes...

[Hawklaser]

Actually it was much faster in the beta to the point people petitioned to have it reduced. And they did. You leveled ridiculously quickly through gathering jobs (well, maybe not so much fisher) with the exp you got plus Guildleves. It's still really fast with leves. I never use leves on combat jobs anymore because they're so much more useful for Hand and Land classes...

This may be true, though at the later levels it is incredibly slow if one does not have leves to burn on it. And like you, I pretty much exclusively use leves for DoH and DoL jobs, but when have the choices of conserving materials for crafting or faster gathering XP, usually the material conservation wins, not to mention the crafting leves are some of the more profitable ones to do.

Perhaps they could tweak the rates at higher levels more to prevent the flooding of the higher items just from leveling, as very easy to end up mining over 5,000 items to get to a new group of nodes at the later levels.

As part of what makes gathering such a chore to level up, is quite often most of the materials can gather while leveling have very little value to sell unless you are able to craft with the items yourself.

[rizer6301]

i found a quest u can turn in 100 times easily for 500k BUT ITS SO HARD TO MAKE MONEY IN THIS GAME

[Ryihito]

i found a quest u can turn in 100 times easily for 500k BUT ITS SO HARD TO MAKE MONEY IN THIS GAME

May I ask which one please?

[Balaur]

Title says it all im a lvl 29 miner and it takes 155k exp to level up so as im gathering lvl 30 minerals I get 250 exp for normal quality and 750 for hq at chain of 4. Its sickening really. There has to be some way for S.E. to be able to increase the exp gains for the gathering classes. Its bad enough that gathering itself is a horribly grindy mind numbing experiences in itself. No wonder people are botting these classes.

If you have any suggestions please post what you think.

You get about 1-1.4k exp for each node you hit at NQ, and when you can produce another strike you can get ~2k per node. If you get HQ at least 25% of the time on a given node, this means you're getting between 1.7-2.3k a node. And you don't risk you life doing so. And whatever you get is pure profit.

Plus, there's leves, which for the fact that you gain exp from each strike therein, also award a huge chunk afterwards. Moreso if you get the evaluation bonus leves and make an effort to go for the higher evaluations.

[Austin]

its fine.. went from 1-32 in 5 hours. Something rewarding should take at least some time.