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The impression I have from Holo'spost and the response by GreenMarine is that this is a full nerf. The only bug is for those who are only grouped with their pets. It also seems there is a disagreement on how much the nerf was and that <b>may</b> be due to a bug or it may not.

What's ironic is that Holo made the same assessment that Delta did in a reply to my comment in an unrelated thread. It came up because Holo was saying how much they've improved communication by saying how detailed and accurate the patch notes were, and I brought this issue up as being a steath nerf.

He said it was a bug, but, and correct me if I'm wrong (I'm repeating myself here) the patch notes said that group harvests were at 60% and we know full well that group harvests are far below that and solo harvests are much less than before also and this was not addessed by the patch notes at all. And it was GreenMarine's response (as quoted by Holo) that said it was intended, but just disagreed with us on the amount. My own opinion is that the hunt bonuses are not applying correctly and maybe it is both a bug and a nerf?

Another piece of irony is that someone had the "nerve" to tell the devs (Holo or GreenMarine?), once the 60% rule was announced, to make sure pets didn't count as part of the group - and in light of such wonderful news that person was flamed for making a pointless statement and that of course the devs would do it right.

Go figure.

SBJ,

The person wasn't flamed. I just said "have a little faith".

Obviously, my faith wasn't justified. Lesson learned.

In any event, I am of the opinion, based on my conversations with the Devs and my experience in game, couple with the comments here that there is indeed a bug in the level of the decrease across the board in the level of harvests, and getting this fixed is my #1 priority.

B

I still think the whole system is flawed. Pulling the same resource off an animal multiple times is gonna bring rangers to their knees. Yeah the camo kits are great, but aside from the huge amounts of materials to make them, they break and wear off too fast. Don't hand me a turd and tell me it's a Baby Ruth.

let's say I, at master ranger pull 50 meat off an animal, in a group @60% this would be 30 meat.

Now let's get a group of 3 guys - a novice scout and 2 Chs. Let's say they can pull 35 meat off the same animal. 60% is 21. 21 x 3 = 63 meat off one animal.

63 meat vs. 50 meat solo, or 30 meat grouped with an entertainer or something is just nuts!

Where is my income?

I'm still confused about what's going on. We hunted Krayts last night and I remember the only other time I went on a Krayt hunt, I examined it and saw CL 275, hides 671 (I think). I didn't get to harvest then as I had died and didn't get revived in time to harvest (a shame as the scout exp is fantastic but I'm maxxed out now). Last night was a different story as I harvested several times. I was harvesting either 671 hide or 452 bone. Another ranger in the group managed to harvest 1 meat. So maybe the hunting bonuses are in effect but the harvest nerf was around 33%? Just a guess.