Why are we not allowed to be pure gatherers effectively that isn’t skinning and something else? I personally love being a miner and herbalist. I am a gatherer at heart and the fact that we somehow can’t be that for some reason is so bizarre to me. I have never liked crafting, I have always gathered though and it is frustrating not being able to do that effectively in classic and forever for seemingly no reason what so ever. They made Find Treasure function with find herbs/minerals so why not herbs and minerals work together? Turning them both on and off over and over is honestly annoying and so far a few times it broke my UI needing a reload because I stopped being able to turn on either.
If the only reason is because “bots could exploit it” is a really bad reason to hinder normal players. Also, its not like bots don’t read the data to find them to begin with.
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An argument could be made for Paladin’s Sense Undead and Druid Kitty forms Sense Humanoid as well. Hunter tracking too? Something to consider maybe
so we should be able to track everything at the same time then huh. your wrong bud
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I mean they are definitely leaning that direction with the Dwarf racial as a said, also why would that even be an issue? Its not like our characters are too dumb to track an undead or a human while also looking for minerals and herbs. The only reason I can see in my mind why we shouldn’t be able to is because you’re one of those “no changes” people and WoW Forever is full of changes.
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Because there has to be a trade off somewhere. If you take herb/alch, you don’t get to mine. If you take mining/eng you don’t get to collect herbs. As long as resources are finite it has to be as fair as possible. Dual gathering is already its own advantage and should not allow a handful of people to easily keep an entire zone depleted of resources. Allowing them to track both only makes it easier to do so.
And yes, people do things to circumvent this. That doesn’t mean the game should officially implement it.
That honestly seems like a reason to enable it, I know for a fact that people run around with addons that do the tracking for them, and basically people act like its “it is what it is.” No, its dumb that people with addons that a huge chunk of the playerbase uses get advantages over people that don’t. Even I am considering it because if Blizzard won’t allow something because of community perception of being bad but it still happens anyway I will just download the addons.
TL;DR By not allowing people to track both, it just gives people a disadvantage compared to those that do use addons to able to track both. Be it an auto switcher or a database overlay. I prefer to use as few addons as possible.
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The tradeoff is not having a creation profession.
In practice, minerals in mineral heavy areas, herbs in herb heavy areas, herbs in mixed because a lot of the time you can just spot the minerals by eye.
pretty sure it’s because they just dont’t want to update the map ui to support multiple tracking types.
I could’ve sworn that someone @ Blizzcon specifically said that being able to track herbs and mines at the same time, AND dwarf treasure should be possible.
I just wish find herbs would stop turning itself off on death.
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