Feedback:User/Tarka/Gathering suggestions: Jute Plants (Tailoring) and Skinning (Leatherworking)
Gathering suggestions: Jute Plants (Tailoring) and Skinning (Leatherworking) | |
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| User | Tarka |
| Categories | Items World |
The process of gathering Jute and Leather Scraps is inconsistent with the processes of gathering wood, gemstones and metals.
When a player requires metals or gems for crafting then they are required to gather the materials from mining nodes (unless they obtain it from another player). Similarly, when a player requires wood, they are required to get it primarily from chopping down trees. However, when players need cloth or leather scraps type materials they are required to get them as drops from mobs.
I think it would be better to have cloth fibres (e.g. "Jute Fibres") gathered from specific types of plants that should be found throughout the game world (e.g. "Jute" plants). The "Sickle" tool that is used for collecting other plant-type gathering materials could be re-used for gathering Jute as well.
Also, Leather scraps should be obtained via a "Skinning" gathering ability that perhaps requires the use of a skinning knife. The knife could either have it's own slot on the character sheet (like the sickle, logging axe and mining pick has) or occupy one of the existing slots mentioned (inferring that the player would need to "swap out" one tool for another).
The benefits of the above is that players are not being forced to persistently kill mobs, relying on random number generation systems, just to get certain crafting materials. It's not fair on Leatherworkers and Tailors that they are forced to do this, when other crafting professions don't rely on such systems as much.
