material rankings need to go, its just adding more time to crafting and gathering which favors bots that can do it all day.
If the goal is to add more time and value to items Why not just turn gathering into an anti bot mini game in a separate window every time you tap a node? The better you do at the mini game the more resources you gather.
I wish all professions would be made fun again.
Because players like myself that farm their own mats would grab pitchforks and take you to the town square to be dealt with.
yea i dont want to play a mini game when i am mining herbing or skinning
if you get hit with lag on the last node guess what lvl 1 or 2 item
i dont mind crafting having ranks since it at least shows your progression as you skill up and get knowledge so you have something to show for the effort but for gathering its just a waste of time and bag space. why do i need to have 3 ranks of 6 different items in my already small resource bag? lets just accept the bots for gathering and focus on crafting
You mean like the mining mini game? That information is provided to the client visually so it’s only a matter of time before bots reverse engineer it (Probably already have).
Bots, reverse engineering and enough AI will overcome anything.
No, they definitely don’t. And that’s irrelevant to botting.
The last thing I want is to spend any more time than I have to gathering a node…
Maybe if it were an occasional special node that gave a lot more rewards for completing the mini-game. But I’d rather be able to just zone out while gathering instead of having to solve puzzles.
This drives me nuts. At least let us learn a way to upgrade lower level items into higher level ones. Maybe by combining them. Anything to make them useful again.
Edit: Heck, I’d even be willing to do a mini game to improve the lower-level mats if that’s what it took. But not to pick them up in the first place.
There is a way, but you have to unlock them in the skill tree.
You can do that if you have enough skill/points. I can convert tier 1 herbs into 2 and then 3.
Because real players would fail at those, and complain that gathering is now too hard.
Ah. Well, I hate the “new” profession interface so much, I haven’t worked on them like I should. Maybe I would have found that out myself. Thanks for the info.
One of the best ideas I’ve read on the forum in a long time. I’d like to see crafting be a mini-game, too. The crafting mini games in FF14 were one of the things I most-loved about it.
Just look at all the complaints about EZ-Mode veins and those just require avoiding red circles.
They have said that it is going back to classic style single tap gathering nodes soon. First person gets it thats it to combat against all these bots. Looks like Ion is making gathering great again!
You know what’s going to happen? They’re going to set up bots at all the spawn locations and actual players are never going to get anything.
This does not seem plausible Blizz is combatting bots not helping them so I trust single tap gathering will be the ultimate fix.
Bots can’t play minigames?