Has Resourcing been Hijacked

[rooboy]

I think its obvious to anyone with high level resourcing that this has been nerfed for some reason.. At least it is to me . The Cynic in me says this is obviously to drive up high end resource prices so we use more Tc's and Jeff Makes more Monety. Have a missed a notification that this obvious Resourcing Nerf was occuring or are we supposed to belkieve that we are all just very very very unlucky?

[hotshot64]

Originally Posted by Pansy

T30 dye is expensive now because of very high demand for the new 99 epic equipment. It takes a dye and a cloth (which has another dye embedded) to make a consumable recipe from the master copy. And the recipe may call for yet another cloth. So at the moment there is very heavy demand for the T30 dye, and supply is limited because they are so hard to find.

I forage every day in North Lake Halcyon in hero mode with the compass, and I have found T30 plants only three times. One of those was actually when I was looking for a gator in VD3. You know you're having a good day when you go epic farming and find Starfire Berries!

But prices will come down, and 99 equipment will become more affordable because more players will continue to raise their foraging skill. I remember when T25 dye sold for the price we pay for T30 dye now. I had to painstakingly upcraft hundreds of plants for weeks to make the dye I needed for 78 armor. Now the same thing is happening with T30 dye and 99 equipment.

It is frustrating when you risk life and limb fighting some god-awful heroic monster in a high level zone and then you just get 3 thistleberries for your effort. But the problem is that if T30 plants/ores/veggies become common, that is the end of the line for resourcers. Unless the Glitchless skunkworks has a legendary T31 plant under development, then we have nowhere to go. At least now we still have a small chance to find a valuable resource. If T30s become common, we won't even have that any more.

Read carefully, as this is the best summary I've ever heard of the reason why resourcing is the way it is.

[Sanluciferr]

Words of wisdom.

[hotshot64]

Indeed, Pansy is smart and experienced, it's a good idea to listen to her.

[rooboy]

I am not talking about the always present and Fair extreme difficulty of the T30 resources I am talking about a clearly obvious decline in anything above the lowest possible returns for Resourcing.. The decline is about 1 week old.. and very obvious across my activities in Foraging and Gardening..

[hotshot64]

Apologies then, carry on :P

[rooboy]

Thankyou Hotty.. -)

[thatperson]

i noticed this while farming nlake in heroic i got 4 sets of bison and a tier 11 along with a couple tier 5s through an entire hour of rrt this is with 55 hunting


but my group members got several rare ores and berries including 12 tier 27 berries

[Jadakris]

I just got my compass and only have 75 foraging so, I can't really comment on this.. But on 7-8 hrs RT I usually come up with about a total of say maybe 20 t15-17 berries (from upcrafting and collecting) and perhaps a total of 10-12 t18-21 berries..

So we will see what the compass brings me, but you have to keep in mind the large amount of players who are no able to obtain the compass.. To be honest, I would be expecting a maximum skill cap boost soon (say 105).. >_>