103460-survialistthe-most-worthless-skill-ever

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Survialist, what is the point?
 
1. You dont seem to ever get enough leather. no matter what type of beast/animal you kill.
2. you dont seem to get enough meat to raise cooking with.
3. who needs all this wood?
 
Why is this skill so useless?	
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			oh and lets not even get started on heavy bone?!?	
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			Nope, Relic Hunter is worse. You can't even vendor the materials for decent profit.	
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			It's probably the best gathering job.Get free materials for killing things you were going to kill anyways and get to gather wood in large quantities that has a high npc price	
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Nope, Relic Hunter is worse. You can't even vendor the materials for decent profit.
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Relic Hunter is kinda good when paired with Technologist if you know what you're doing, just saying ;)
 
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			I think the best part about survivalist is that I get mats for  my outfitting  plus crap I can sell. Not really something the other gathering proffs can do.	
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			Survivalist is the most underrated gathering profession hands down.	
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I thought wood was like freaking gold around here. I make more off of 10x wood than I do 30x ore 
I was mad when I didn't see it and got an ore plot instead of a thicket. Thicket=plat=free creed	
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			Nuh uh, no way. Wood sells well and the bones you can find that sell for like 6-7g each are awesome. 	
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			Survivalist the best gathering tradeskill for making gold, hands down. Wood vendors for a lot.	
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My friend is an architect so I'm constantly feeding him wood. I'm stock piling every bit of leather and bone for an outfitter--if I ever do start leveling my stalker again.
 
But most definitely WTF on bone and leather drop rates!	
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			Mining + Survivalist is a very good combo to get some decent income. Bought 3 CREDD total just of farming and running harvesting circle.	
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Mining + Survivalist is a very good combo to get some decent income. Bought 3 CREDD total just of farming and running harvesting circle.
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Survivalist isn't useless, but leather and bone (particularly bone) drop rates are so low that you need to sell all the extra wood you find (and you'll find a ton) to be able to afford to buy enough materials to level Outfitter.  (Which is why taking Survivalist without Outfitter is great for making money right now.)
 
It's a bit broken, (Mining and Armorer/Weaponsmith are much better balanced) but it works, sort of.	
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At least it's not Architect that needs everything plus a lot of wood.
 
On a side note, is it normal for non-Survivalists get Survivalist exp from killing animals? While I was leveling my main (which was Relic/Tech at the time), I noticed that I occasionally got Survivalist exp. I didn't think much of it until I was level 50 and swapped my Relic for Survivalist. I then noticed that my Survivalist was high enough to gather t4 timber. I just find the whole thing strange (but lucky).
 
If it matters, I swapped to Survivalist when I was lvl 15 or so, but immediately swapped to Relic Hunter before I even gathered anything as a Survivalist.	
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Drop rate on leathers is fine. 
 
Drop rate on bones? Not so good, however they can be salvaged at a decent rate from Rotten Carcass, Trophy Kill, Meaty Abdomen, etc... 
 
Farm or GTFO... :) . JK.   You can find what you need farming or just buy it on the exchange if you don't have the patience.
 
Augmented leather/Infused Bone----> NE Malgrave  
Rockhide Leather/Tempered Bone/----> W Malgrave, just west of Gravestone 
Split and Thick Leather/Thick Bone----> Auroria (Dominion) the cows and bulls. Not sure what the Exile's equivalent location is called.
 
I find it to be more cost effective to get reinforced leather and steel and tempered bones on the exchange. 	
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			All leather and bone -----> Thicket housing plots :)	
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It's probably the best gathering job.
 
Get free materials for killing things you were going to kill anyways and get to gather wood in large quantities that has a high npc price
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Yeah, I think it's important to separate this into two areas:
 
1) Money Making
2) Craft Support
 
As a money maker, Survivalist is probably the best gathering profession. Wood vendors for twice as much as ore. As craft support, it's pretty decent for Architects. For Outfitters, it's total and complete junk. You absolutely cannot in any way use it to support dailies, let alone crafting tree completion. My Armorer/Miner literally gets as much leather/bone as my Outfitter/Survivalist does, and I'm including carcasses in that. I get perhaps one carcass per 30-to-40 kills and, at the level cap, I have to go out of my way to find mobs that even drop carcasses (with the exception of the one spider daily). The only way to get a sufficient amount of leather/bone as a Survivalist is to vendor wood and buy it on the CX, which is a really strange and inelegant solution to something that never needed to be a problem to begin with.	
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Survivalist = #1 ... minning = #2 , Relic hunting = #3....
 
You can get stuff just by KILLING creatures as a survivalist.... you don't have to go out of your way to make money...	
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Survivalist = #1 ... minning = #2 , Relic hunting = #3....
 
You can get stuff just by KILLING creatures as a survivalist.... you don't have to go out of your way to make money...
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What you should really compare is the resource nodes between the two - wood and ore - and see which one made you more money by the end of the zone.
 
Salvageable carcasses is just a minor bonus to Survivalist. The resource that they actually gather - wood - is meant more for Architect. Outfitter is just like Tailor in that you can't gather materials from some convenient resource node. It just so happens that there are so much more humanoid mobs to drop cloth than there are animal mobs to drop leather, so Tailor doesn't have a hard time.	
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			Survivalist is by far the best gathering tradeskill atm, especially because it can't be touched by bots. I've made about 50plat in the past two weeks from survivalist. It does depend on the price of bones on your server, and leather and meat does not really matter I vendor it anyways.	
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			Hardcore tree farming has bought me Expert Riding, a years worth of CREDD, 6 Elite Thickets, and various other things.	
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Survivalist isn't useless at all!
 
Bones can sell for a lot (example: Thick Bone is worth 1 gold on my server now) and selling wood will give you a LOT of money (100 knotted heartwood [about 20+ trees if you average on 5 wood per tree] vendors for 2 gold+)	
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One thing to note is that very few quests ask  you to kill beast type enemies which drop leather. So it is natural not to get much in the levelling process.
 
I actually wish the dailies involved killing more beasts. It would definitely bring more leather/bones into the economy	
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Sorry to say, but it's because you're an idiot.
Wood is the material with best sell price.
Join a survivalist circle and farm. I could get 80g in less than an hour just getting lumber from t4/elite thickets.
Been gone a weekend, came back to a plat because my thicket was constantly farmed.
 
Who needs all this wood?
People who know how to make money.	
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