Quote Originally Posted by Amineri View Post
From the Nov 25 2010 Patch Notes

The change to battle drops didn't keep the +3 drop rate the same, it increased it (effectively a stealth nerf to gathering). I was very surprised that the exact same action wasn't taken for gathering drops.
I think that was more of a panic fix. They saw people desperately wanting more inventory and changing a couple of variables in the code seemed like the easiest way to apply a quick fix.

I actually wouldn't have a problem with +1 and +2s returning to battle drops if they handle the inventory better. But I want gathering to be on equal footing so either get rid of +1/2 in gathering or re-add them to battle drops and find a better way of handling them in the inventory.