Hunting. Something needs to be done

Vasorion

After testing the Hunting profession with the help of the guild, we found the following:

There is a poor drop rate for high-quality hides. Most of the drops are white (common), while green and blue (uncommon, rare) hides are extremely rare. This makes crafting high-quality medium armor nearly impossible.
No one in the guild has been able to craft medium full set above blue (rare) grade.

Volgaris

Maybe just redo hunting altogether? It's the strangest system even. I can kill some wolfs with a weapon, but others I have to pet to death? So weird. Would it be so much to ask for some actual hunting mechanics?

Cabelus

It'd be interesting if they modeled real life hunting and used weapons that differ from combat weapons. If you kill with a sword or fireball you'd destroy the resources (like a shotgun or fully auto rifle IRL) landing white/green mats. If you use a hunting bow/sling/dart it'd be a much more difficult kill (probably some tracking) but you don't damage the hide and meat netting higher "quality" rewards.

Volgaris

@Cabelus I agree. In other games the ranger class could track mobs. You could add that in as a skill the player could pick at whatever level, or they could track different mobs at different levels of the hunting skill.

I want to be able to track, trap, and harvest. Each of these could be skills or abilities that progress in some way with the character hunting level.

I don't know if the designers know about hunting and dislike or have no clue about it. I can understand not wanting to "hunt" something, but our characters are literally casting fireballs at the same critters, I think any care of the cuddly things is more than a bit hypocritical.

Cabelus

@Volgaris Agreed, something akin to a fishing rod for hunting specific purposes that delineates between killing and farming.

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