138613-novice-relic-blaster-to-apprentice

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Hello.
 
 
Is there any apprentice relic hunter blaster ? I mean there should be available at the vending maching but i cant find it, nor on the npcs	
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			Currently the only place to purchase advanced gathering tools is the crafting voucher vendor in your capital city.  As you could guess from the name, the crafting voucher vendor only accepts crafting vouchers as currency, so you need crafting vouchers to buy tools for your gathering tradeskills, which have no way of earning crafting vouchers.  This leaves people with two gathering tradeskills with the choice of leveling a crafting profession to be able to do the dailies, buying the combi-tool off the cash shop, or suffering through the really slow gathering rate of the initial harvesting tool.	
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Currently the only place to purchase advanced gathering tools is the crafting voucher vendor in your capital city.  As you could guess from the name, the crafting voucher vendor only accepts crafting vouchers as currency, so you need crafting vouchers to buy tools for your gathering tradeskills, which have no way of earning crafting vouchers.  This leaves people with two gathering tradeskills with the choice of leveling a crafting profession to be able to do the dailies, buying the combi-tool off the cash shop, or suffering through the really slow gathering rate of the initial harvesting tool.
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Is the only ramification of using the beginner harvesting tool is the speed in which you harvest?  Can you get less items from a single harvest, or fail at getting some items, by using the beginner tool?
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It just does less damage. Higher level gathering nodes have more HP, so a better tool harvests them faster.
That said, since harvesting tools are technically just lowing the HP of the nodes, you can also gather from them just by hitting them.
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			you know weapons still work right?	
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			I would suggest buying the multi-profession tool from the store, you can get it with omnibits and not only does this prevent you from having to swap tools according to the node, but it serves as a max level tool.	
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Novice tools work just fine for any level nodes. I just got an Expert Relic Blaster to test if it really is better. And it is about 2x faster compared to Novice tool. If one were doing regular runs thru gathering circle the difference might be significant but in open world it's neglible.
 
My fresh tier 5  lv 41 needs to reapply Novice tool to fully gather a Kinetic Node unlike Expert blaster. But in open world Kinetic Relic Nodes are not encountered until at higher level areas.
 
And to answer OP: One can buy Novice tools from grafting vendbot for 99 copper but crafting voucher vendor  sells higher level tools. Apparentice 500,  Journeyman 1000, Aritsan 2000 and Expert 4000 vouchers. Research Commisioner Tyranea at Luminous Gardens, Illium. Brigade Researcher Segarden in Thayd. Suggest saving your vouchers until Expert or buying the the Quantum Harvester from cash shop (390 ob / 195 nc) if you don't craft.
			
				
	Edited October 12, 2015 by belymt	
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