2013-09-12, 04:17 AM
Tikey Wrote:I just starting leveling up my botany but it's so painfully slow. I don't want to use my leves on them because they give garbage exp. :/
Try to buy some gathering manuals if you can. That 50% bonus exp REALLY makes a difference for lower levels. I didn't know leves were so bad at that level. It started to slow down for me, even with manuals, after 24 or so. What I did up to that point was basically find a new mat or series of mats on the same nodes and then go farm until I had a full stack (regular, not HQ) of each. Seemed boring, but setting that goal really helped me focus. I then just dumped the mats into the company chest for anyone to use.
By the way, they REALLY need some qol changes! I want an automatic split/retrieve function for retainers like you can do with your company chest. "How many would you like to retrieve?" Uh, that'd be amazing. Stealth slows you down to a glacial pace and it drives me insane. GP costs are EXTREMELY high, especially for crystal gathering. I don't notice the 100GP skills as much as I used to, but I still can't spam them constantly without consequences, and I can only use a shard skill once every couple of rotations. Um, helloooo, we need a crapton of shards; at least bump up the initial yield to 2-3, even more if you're feeling generous, since they give negligible exp. On a personal note, I think gathering a HQ item should give you 10 GP instead of the regular 5, that'd make the system more interesting, and really make you strive for HQ gathers, since at my level it's kind of like, "If I get one, great. If I don't, meh."