Game Mechanics Add More Ingredient Gathering Spots

Intro:
I am suggesting adding more gathering spots where crafting ingredients can be obtained rather than the standard crafting materials.

Motivation:

Spoiler: Motivation:

With the addition of gathering xp gear, leveling up gathering professions has become much less tedious. However, now there is the issue that it is significantly more difficult to level up crafting professions compared to gathering professions. Personally, I have gone through the process of leveling my farming, fishing, cooking, and alchemism professions simultaneously, and I always reached the next gathering tier with 3-4 more levels of alchemism and cooking required before I could craft with the materials from that higher tier.

Adding more spots where players can gather ingredients would help streamline the process of leveling gathering and crafting professions simultaneously and enable players to level up their crafting professions without having to spend a significant amount of time grinding mobs for tier 0 ingredients to craft with.

Adding more varied kinds of gathering spots would also diversify the gathering experience and make it more interesting.

Precedent:
There are already a couple in-game spots where items besides crafting materials can be obtained:

Spoiler: Mushroom Gathering (Nivla Woods)

Spoiler: Bamboo (Canyon of the Lost)

Spoiler: Sunrise Flour (Sky Islands)

Implementation:
Models:
Models for new gathering nodes could remain virtually the same as is the case with sunrise flour, or new models could be made, as is the case with mushroom gathering nodes and bamboo. Models could also just be slightly changed by re-skinning existing models, such as swapping out the blocks in the current ore model for new ones.

Obtainable Ingredients:
Only tier 0 ingredients would be obtainable via the new gathering spots, in-line with the current tier 0 mushrooms obtainable from mushroom nodes. Alternatively, a small chance could be implemented to obtain higher-rarity crafting ingredients. For example, at a potato-gathering node, normally you would receive a potato ingredient. However, perhaps 1% of the time a rare potato would be obtained instead.

New tier 0 ingredients could be designed specifically for these gathering nodes, or current tier 0 ingredients could be incorporated. Here are some current tier 0 ingredients that could be incorporated into gathering spots:

Spoiler: Potential Ingredients

Mining:

• Unmeltable Ice (lvl. 92, found in Freezing Heights)
• Ancient Metal (lvl. 64, found in Dernel Jungle)
• Gritty Rocks (lvl. 32, found in Desert / Rymek Canyon)

Woodcutting:

• Thick Vines (lvl. 53, found in Troms Jungle)
• Wood Shavings (lvl. 43, found in Llevigar Plains / Nesaak)
• Wood Snippet (lvl. 16, found in Detlas Plains)

Farming:

• Bright Petal (lvl. 73, found in Realm of Light)
• Rose (lvl. 18, found in a cave near Detlas)
• Potato (lvl. 1, found in a variety of locations)

Fishing:

• Sludge Parasite (lvl. 102, found in Silent Expanse)
• Fish Scales (lvl. 75, found in Lake Gylia)
• Squid Ink (lvl. 28, found in various spots throughout the ocean)

Conclusion:
Overall I believe adding more gathering spots where crafting ingredients can be obtained would diversify the gathering experience and make it easier to level crafting professions alongside gathering professions. Let me know what you guys think.

 

You're forgetting Bamboo

 

Oh, I didn't realize bamboo was already implemented in a gathering spot. Was this added in 2.0?

 

It's been in Canyon of The Lost for a long time, since at least 1.20

 

I see. I guess I never noticed since I don't really do woodcutting. I will look into it.

Edit: Bamboo has been added to the list of existing ingredient gathering spots.