Doctor Archive

It's becoming obvious to Rangers and Scouts that SOE sneaked in an overall reduction in harvested hides, bones and meat because of the new 60% group harvesting rule.

An example, as a Hunt Master Rangeron a mob I would normally get 49 hides from, after the update I now get around 27 hides give or take depending if the creature is fat and healthy, medium size, or skinny (no way to determine this until it's harvested). If I group with any pet, or with another player I may get 18 of those hides.

To the average Ranger it would now be much more profitable to run destroy missions than to harvest creatures for a living to provide to crafters of any type.

All thismayresult in a shortage ofresources and probably is going to drive the overall costs of resources harvested up, thus resulting in youcharging higher prices to sell your goods. You also might end up having to buy many smaller stacks of varying types of products as well.

Yes and no...

I personally am a ranger/doctor. Yes, the 60% reduction is bothering alot of rangers over on the Ranger board if you solo alot, yes, this is a HUGE hit to your profitability. The ranger you mentioned going to do destroy missions instead of harvesting stuff is still going to harvest stuff he gets on those destroy missions.

Also, I personally think this was a ploy from sony to try and get the group mentality to get going again. Alot of people were soloing everything because it was easier most of the time to get more money soloing stuff then working in a group. Potentally this change will have scouts tend to flock together to do their harvesting/hunting.

For example: Before when I was in a group I had to make sure everyone was ok with me harvesting all the meat I could to try and get avian/herbivore meat which was a huge process in itself. Now I can just ask people in the group that can harvest to do so to help me get supplies to heal their sorry butts. Lets say before we were hunting BigMonsterExample A that when I harvested got me 100 meat. Now, since I have no combat ability myself, since I hunt with usually 4-8 other people (lets say 3-4 of them are scouts) I can get up to 300 meat off the same animal, and no fighting over who's turn it is to harvest.

I like the new way.

Ixiss Chardox

The problem, as I see it, is that you don't often have a group of scouts/rangers. The group I am with the most often only hase one Master Ranger, just like I am the only Master Doc or Master CM. Yet our Ranger is now seriously hampered by being groupd with us, or even going solo just grouping with her pets.

It was already hard enough to try and get meats, now it's near impossible. It seems to me that this actually encourages scouts/rangers to solo because they are getting slammed on resource grabs if they are grouped and there are not at least 2 other similar ability scouts/rangers with them.