147771-unable-to-harvest-nodes

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At the moment, if you are under a certain level in a gathering tradeskill, you may be completely unable to harvest nodes in a new zone. Unless you go back to a previous one for the sole purpose of mining etc., or wait to patiently level up the tradeskill in your housing plot, you will be unable to progress further from that point onwards. This is especially an issue for players like me who have leveled up mainly through PvP, lacking gathering XP due to skipping certain zones altogether.
 
My solution is really simple, why not allow us to farm higher tier nodes for experience only? Alternatively, we would need some low tier nodes strewn in among the higher tier nodes. What are you supposed to do if you pick up a gathering skill late in the game, go back to your starter zone?	
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 What are you supposed to do if you pick up a gathering skill late in the game, go back to your starter zone?
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			I don't think avoiding mindless farming is dumbing down your game, there's no challenge to mining. I can see the value of getting high level players back into starter zones, but blocking progression for players that have leveled through PvP seems like sloppy design to me.	
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			I believe this and the greatly increased hp on plants were put in place to stop the army of low lvl teleporting bots harvesting everything from higher lvl zones. We had a very serious issue at launch with them, hundreds of teleporting bots harvesting everything seconds after it spawned,
			
				
	Edited December 3, 2015 by ValeS	
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