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Concern about Gathering
In other MMO's I typically find myself playing as a gatherer. I like to go mine, collect herbs, etc. However, this usually ends up being unrewarding, and usually I am forced to level up my crafting skills in order to be able to mine or collect certain things.
The thing is, I don't want to be a blacksmith. I just want to collect stuff. But since it is usually tied in with smithing or whatever, there is no demand for somebody to go collect things, because a master smith is also able to go collect his resources. If every blacksmith can gather their materials, the price of those materials will drop, because why pay a decent amount for something when you can just go get it yourself?
This may just be me, but I really want gathering specific skills. If a blacksmith wants to gather his own materials, he should have to put in the time to be able to get those higher leveled materials, not just spend a few minutes googling where to find Mithril and running over to collect it himself. Or, like in real life, purchase the materials from somewhere to create his weapons/armor. The materials will cost a little more because not every smith and his dog can go collect it, just the people like me who invest their time mining, logging, or whatever (or the smiths who spend time leveling both skills).
I mean, you already have strong monsters that drop stuff like rare leather, that a smith can't just go grab without having a high level in combat, or getting a high leveled warrior to go kill it for him. So why not apply the same kind of limit to other resources?
TLDR; If you combine the mining and smithing into one skill, the demand for people to gather goes down, and forces people like me to become a blacksmith even if I just want to gather and sell top tier resources, but why bother with that if all the money comes from the crafting side rather than the gathering. If I want to make a sandwich IRL, I can do that. But I don't have the knowledge on how to make peanut-butter or bread; I buy those from somebody that does.
The thing is, I don't want to be a blacksmith. I just want to collect stuff. But since it is usually tied in with smithing or whatever, there is no demand for somebody to go collect things, because a master smith is also able to go collect his resources. If every blacksmith can gather their materials, the price of those materials will drop, because why pay a decent amount for something when you can just go get it yourself?
This may just be me, but I really want gathering specific skills. If a blacksmith wants to gather his own materials, he should have to put in the time to be able to get those higher leveled materials, not just spend a few minutes googling where to find Mithril and running over to collect it himself. Or, like in real life, purchase the materials from somewhere to create his weapons/armor. The materials will cost a little more because not every smith and his dog can go collect it, just the people like me who invest their time mining, logging, or whatever (or the smiths who spend time leveling both skills).
I mean, you already have strong monsters that drop stuff like rare leather, that a smith can't just go grab without having a high level in combat, or getting a high leveled warrior to go kill it for him. So why not apply the same kind of limit to other resources?
TLDR; If you combine the mining and smithing into one skill, the demand for people to gather goes down, and forces people like me to become a blacksmith even if I just want to gather and sell top tier resources, but why bother with that if all the money comes from the crafting side rather than the gathering. If I want to make a sandwich IRL, I can do that. But I don't have the knowledge on how to make peanut-butter or bread; I buy those from somebody that does.
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To me, as I have yet to see anything stating otherwise, it just feels like they lumped together the gathering and smithing aspects. This is just the biggest thing I dislike in MMO's. Whether or not I'm right or wrong about this, I just want to voice my concern.
Hopefully I'm worried over nothing.
https://www.twitch.tv/ashesofcreation/videos/all
Plough through them and consider yourself informed.
Whereas a character may only have points available for one gathering path, if they also put points into processing and/or crafting.