Non-Mining profs need more places like Voidstone Sanctuary

[azure beacon]

Firstly, I just wanna mention that devs have much more important stuff on their plate than this and I don't think this is something that needs priority right now.

I have spent the last couple weeks getting all of my gathering professions to 110. Areas like Voidstone Sanctuary were always a pleasant boost to get during leveling, and they helped make things feel more vibrant and unique amongst the otherwise mundane grind of gathering.

However, it is disappointing that these areas are not present for most material types and for all 4 gathering professions. For instance, mining is much easier than any of the other 3 right now because places like the Llevigar quarry, Maex mines and Voidstone Sanc only include mining nodes (Other than Maex having some fish). I think having more areas, or at least adding other gathering types to the existing ones (For instance the swamp resource tunnels does this pretty well) would help make the grind feel less intimidating and more engaging, especially to new players. I'm unsure how woodcutting could be handled with this since trees are so big, maybe shrubs or something? That's something the more creative people can handle lol

Having areas like this for very low level gatherings would also help incentivize new players, but of course right now you level up so fast early on that this isn't really necessary. Balancing the time it takes to grind and over reliance on xp/speed bombs is a different discussion, though.

Overall, I feel like these areas add so much more incentive to grind out gathering profs, and having them completely absent from so many points in progression just feels wrong. I also think it would be nice if more unique ways of entering these areas were added, like the voidsoaked quartz in the Voidstone Sanc.

Thanks for all your amazing work CT <3

man what a yapper this guy is

[limpid portal]

rol1 cave access

the mines next to llevigar

[azure beacon]

nah i mean like official gathering spots not jus places that have lots of nodes

[heady delta]

profs should get Deeprock Galactic as an alternative to lootruns

[azure beacon]

spots that have some sort of requirement for entering

[azure beacon]

real asf

[limpid portal]

it is official gathering spot

[azure beacon]

the llevigar mines?

[limpid portal]

both requires a quest completion

[azure beacon]

huh i didn know that tbh lol

[limpid portal]

and give 50% gathering bonus

[dim holly]

Levi quarry and rol resource tunnel

[azure beacon]

yea but the fact that its mostly for just mining

[limpid portal]

the tunnel has piranha nodes

[azure beacon]

mostly

ok ill edit my post to clarify

[livid barn]

Having to leave maex mines/voidstone sanc to repair is intentional

theres a blacksmith in the void village because of this

[azure beacon]

yes but it feels bad, your tool always gets low on dura before the voidstone sanc time limit is up so whats the point

[livid barn]

its also the reason that the voidstone sanc time limit is 20 minutes instead of the initial hour

[azure beacon]

your tool still breaks before then 😭

[livid barn]

i mean if anything id rather reduce to 15m and give 4 charges, i dont think there should be a blacksmith in it

[azure beacon]

i dont think there should be a blacksmith either thats what i said in the post

[limpid portal]

if you dont care about xp you could just bring an extra one

[livid barn]

it felt kinda implied that something should be done (or a blacksmith should be added)

but yeah idk i think 15m and 4 charges is probably a good idea personally

but if you are there for xp anyways just gather while its out of dura

[azure beacon]

tru im not a good clarifier im editing my post

[azure beacon]

wait tools still give xp when theyre broken 😭 i didnt know

alr im restructuring this whole post lol

[livid barn]

yeah they do

lol..

you just dont get materials

give me a ping when you restructure it and ill read it again

[azure beacon]

fuc i hit enter early 🥀

Non-Mining profs need more places like Voidstone Sanctuary

ok changed it @livid barn

[limpid portal]

ok i agree now

especially woodcutting

[azure beacon]

im bad at making my point clear its smth i need to work on lol i jus always put focus on the wrong stuf from what i mean to

[naive locust]

is this post hunter approved

[limpid portal]

i approve this message (cba to hunt at mid game)

[dim holly]

i hunted someone in void sanc the feeling was incredible

[naive widget]

yeah

with or without karoc, resource tunnels, maex or the sanctuary, every single prof INCLUDING F*SHING is infinitely more bearable than w**dcutting

[limpid portal]

fishing is so chill tho

[warm maple]

Honestly some for woodcutting would be great imo

Maybe a secret garden or some sort in ROL?

Mining has like 4 boosted areas , fishing has 1 , farming has 1

But woodcutting has 0

[hasty cedar]

are there dark forest tunnels too? or did you mean swamp

[restive wolf]

Aren’t trees in most areas of the map though?

I would think then woodcutting would be the easiest gathering profession.

[frosty haven]

True, what issue does woodcutting have?

[chilly sundial]

Infinitely more scattered than other profs and no dense designated locations like others

[naive widget]

till dernic

[restive wolf]

What about the Eyeball Forest?

[ebon epoch]

Too sparse

[naive widget]

gotta walk 3 football stadiums from one tree to the next

while getting spammed by rickeo-wannabe blinders and grippers

[warped dawn]

Foraging update

I would like to know!

[azure beacon]

i meant swamp lol i kinda treat all that area the same my b ill edit the post

[azure beacon]

trees are not only super sparse but u also dont get any areas that give the 50% gxp bonus for woodcutting (and also the node hitboxes can be goofy at times)

i shouldnt say sparse i meant far apart

[gray dagger]

hop on drg

[warped dawn]

Weirdest thing about woodcutting is:

There are trees are so freaking huge but it drops the same rate (xp and drop) just like any other tree, even the small one drops the same rate 🤷

Other profession nodes are consistent in their design, but tree aren't.

Like, mining, fishing, farming nodes are pretty much the same size throughout the game

[azure beacon]

fr 😭

[somber lodge]

“hop on most boring shit ever”

[azure beacon]

HUH squink i thought u were cool how can u hate deep rock

[somber lodge]

played with two of my friends shit was so zzz

[azure beacon]

😔 maybe youll like the roguelike spinoff more, it also puts way more emphasis on combat

(not out yet tho)

[sacred crag]

BTW BTW WYNN NEEDS MORE MONEY SINKS (Thank you lr update) and MAEX MINES IS PERFECT EXAMPLE... 24EB I think it is to enter, its not a lot but if you wanna get materials and not just xp youll repair too and what not, or you might leave for other reasons... More bonus xp areas that cost emeralds to enter would actually be a good thing, it shouldnt be too much, but like maex mines, 24eb is just fine.

(also i dont think you should just get 50% gxp for free, so paying a bit makes sense)

[sacred crag]

The humble birch tree

[naive widget]

oh yeah birch is insufferable too

[open nova]

Oak 😇
Birch

[frosty haven]

I love how using Mage Island and move-spelling between the massive, spaced out, unclimbable pillars is potentially the best spot to farm it

[main ermine]

Willow if you are craftsman:

nermact willow trees even worse then birch...

[frosty haven]

If you know the right cycle, Willow isn’t nearly as bad as Birch, since you can easily outrun and deagro the mobs around a really nice cluster in Ancient Nemract, whereas Birch is more spread out no matter where you go

[sacred crag]

Two movement spells to go from one tree to another... At the minimum. Very fun.

[livid barn]

birch has definitely gotten better since we redid detlas terrain

it was arguably worse than willow before

[warped dawn]

HSB has a foraging update trailer. When we can get Woodcutting update

[chilly sundial]

the hsb foraging trailer mightve been one of the worst trailers ive seen in my life 😭

[main ermine]

"We heard foraging sucks so here have throwable axes to chop down like 3 mangrov trees while still competing with 4 other tryhards"

[chilly sundial]

my favorite part was right clicking little sapling things on the ground being showcased is if it'd be any fun

if they did this update in 1.8.9 it wouldve taken them less than 3 months 🥀

[main ermine]

"Follow the frog npc"
My guy 99% of the community of hsb doesnt know quests exist unless its the ultra specific ones that actually give smth worthwhile

[azure beacon]

i dont even play hsb and that shit looked ass 😭

[frosty haven]

I love how they're not highlighting majorly updating the server, and instead just focusing on cutting down trees

they're not even doing anything interesting with the version upgrade, just Mangroves bushes and swimming

[chilly sundial]

yeah genuinely nothing that couldnt be replicated with some cool textures in 1.8, what a waste foraging is for them

[torn comet]

i could easily do more of these but it’s a bit hard to find spots where a) it’s actually needed b) it’s thematically fitting and c) won’t take away from existing stuff much

and also fruma is priority

for woodcutting it wouldn’t be hard to get a builder to make some hidden valley/clearing type thing for whatever level; i could easily see it being doable for like. basically ANY level of woodcutting

bit harder to find an appropriate tie in but it’s for sure doable

the problem is that id just rather spend time thinking about fruma profs

a gxp set and whatever else will get you past most of these levels really quite fast

i could make killing raia on the island give a 25% gxp boost actually ,

and i’ve thought abt doing one for dernic woodcutting but having everyone woodcut outside lutho is kinda iconic yk? i feel like there’s a sense of community there

[chilly sundial]

the sense of community is archers making sure theyre away from my shaman ass to unleash their stormy feet

[sacred crag]

the coolest part of the whole trailer was the swimming but thats like just a vanilla thing anyway lmao, i dont get how people genuinely are so hyped for this garbage 😭

[sacred crag]

its people making sure they scroll buff with gxp when youre as far away as possible so only they benefit

[chilly sundial]

Mages type ew in chat, tp away, scroll... the community is fading

[frosty haven]

fruma profs confirmed!

[sacred crag]

wow how surprising

[azure beacon]

wel thats why i said at the start that this shouldnt be a priority for ct

and i agree i dont think every mat should have an area, i do agree that dernic gathering has a good kind of community sense rn

[torn comet]

ppl always scroll me on my ironman

[sacred crag]

true...

[azure beacon]

lol

[torn comet]

its happened like two or three times since i came back already 😭

actually there’s also a LOT more hunteds on prof worlds, it’s crazy. ppl actually jump me now after i’ve been gone and there’s ppl proffing in hunted and stuff

[livid barn]

ironman btw..

[sacred crag]

also i dont think dernic stuff needs bonus stuff, since no other dernic thing does either, but like level 90-100 like maex mines does should have for mining and fishing, regarding dernic trees

[azure beacon]

yea

[torn comet]

there’s fishing and mining & adding an xp boost to raia island will be really easy

some avo farm sanctuary would also be easy but it’ll be the only spot ppl go to

at least raia island is pretty out of the way

[limpid portal]

no one prof in raia anymore 😭