Miner / Gatherer

[Terao]

I thought it would be nice to give the the gatherer and miner crafting class every 20 lvl +50 bulk as ability, not masterable. I think this will help these classes a bit, they are way too much grinding and besides of the nice skill gain there is no reason to use them.

[Terao]

The ability should be gained via some nice little quests, would give some additional fun.

[awdz]

this is a really neat idea, imo. :-)

[Dhalin]

It'd give a nice bonus across all tiers, instead of making it so that miner/gatherer only gives you results at T5+....

[Terao]

This might be a better explanation of my thoughts:

lvl 0: +50 bulk Ability "Miner's / Gatherer's Improvement I", gained with T1 Quest
lvl 20: +100 bulk "Miner's / Gatherer's Improvement II", gained with T2 Quest
lvl 40: +150 bulk "Miner's / Gatherer's Improvement III", gained with T3 Quest
lvl 60: +200 bulk "Miner's / Gatherer's Improvement IV", gained with T4 Quest
lvl 80: +250 bulk "Miner's / Gatherer's Improvement V", gained with T5 Quest
lvl 100: +300 bulk "Miner's / Gatherer's Improvement VI", gained with T6 Quest

[Dhalin]

This might be a better explanation of my thoughts:

lvl 0: +50 bulk Ability "Miner's / Gatherer's Improvement I", gained with T1 Quest
lvl 20: +100 bulk "Miner's / Gatherer's Improvement II", gained with T2 Quest
lvl 40: +150 bulk "Miner's / Gatherer's Improvement III", gained with T3 Quest
lvl 60: +200 bulk "Miner's / Gatherer's Improvement IV", gained with T4 Quest
lvl 80: +250 bulk "Miner's / Gatherer's Improvement V", gained with T5 Quest
lvl 100: +300 bulk "Miner's / Gatherer's Improvement VI", gained with T6 Quest

This is pretty much what I assumed you meant.

And as I said, it'd give an actual perk to being a miner/gatherer beyond "increased T5/T6 results".

If you took the time to level Miner or Gatherer to 100, I would think that you should see some kind of bonus even when you're doing T1-T4.

Here's another idea, if the Devs don't want to do that:

Miner's Skill I: -2% delay when gathering anything a miner harvests.
Miner's Skill V: -10% delay when gathering anything a miner harvests.
Gatherer's Skill I: -2% delay when gathering anything a gatherer harvests.
Gatherer's Skill V: -10% delay when gathering anything a harvests.

Either way, I think Miner/Gather should get some bonus to all crafting across the board, not JUST at T5/T6. Since modifying the engine to improve baseline results, or the "low" number is out of the question (as they've told us), ideas like this could work instead.

[x_fangorus_x]

Agreed. This would be nice.

[Guaran]

Don't they already get more capacity as they level, via cargo gear?

But new quests are always fun.

[Garfonso]

I like this idea.
Gatherer was my first craft class and I kind of like it till today. Would love to see it get something special, so that I school it more often.