Gathering

Gathering is the process by which a player can collect crafting materials from resource nodes. There are four gathering Professions: Butchery, Herbalism, Logging, and Mining.
5 of any gathered material can be refined into crafting materials by using the appropriate profession's Workbench. All gathering professions use the Crafting system to refine materials.

Process

Progress bar for Herbalism. The item has not been identified yet.

A Fragrant Root has been identified.

The process of gathering can be outlined as follows:

To locate a gatherable resource, players must out for distinguishable features of the node and a change in the cursor to a harvesting tool when hovering over the node.

Upon interacting with the node, a progress bar will appear above the skill menu. At first, the progress bar will show a generic icon and the name of the resource the player is gathering from.

There is a chance of identifying the item. Once an item is identified, the icon and name will change to the respective icon and name of the specific item that has been found.

If the progres bar finishes and no item was identified, no item will be gathered. The gathering process can fail after successful identifiaction, and no item will be gathered.

After an item has been identified and the progress bar finishes without failing, the item will drop from the resource node ready to be collected.

This process repeats until no more gathering attempts can occur at a resource, at which point the resource disappears and no more can be collected from that spot for a while.

Bonuses

Gathering resources can increase the corresponding gathering profession's Experience and Efficiency. A gathering profession's efficiency will only increase if the player gathers resources whose tier is greater than or equal to the profession's Mastery Level.

Higher-tier resource nodes are unlocked one at a time, corresponding to the gathering profession's mastery Level. A higher mastery level additionally increasese the total number of gathering attempts for the corresponding resource nodes.
Increasing a gathering profession's efficiency increases the chance of finding rarer resource and reduces the chance of gathering failure.

Resource Nodes

An Old Magic Tree logging node.

Each gathering profession can collect materials from three tiers of resource node. Players gathering from higher-tier nodes will have a higher chance of collecting rarer resources, with epic resources only being collectible from tier-3 nodes.

Appearance

The general appearance of nodes per profession are as follows:

Butchery nodes take the form of the carcasses of low-level creatures. When hovering over a butchery node, the cursor will change into a skinning knife.

Herbalism nodes take the form of vibrant bushes. The cursor will change into a sickle when hovering over them.

Logging nodes take the form of blue trees. The cursor will turn into an axe when hovering over them.

Mining nodes take the form of ores. The cursor will change into a pickaxe when hovering over them.

Types

Resource node tiers are not to be confused with item tiers.

Profession	Node	Tier	Description
Butchery
	Lower	I
	Middle	II
	Prime	III
Herbalism
	Thick Bush	I	Red bulbs.
	Old Bush	II	Red and blue bulbs.
	Ancient Bush	III
Logging
	Magic Tree	I	Blue leaves, not completely covered.
	Old Magic Tree	II	Blue leaves, tall, completely covered.
	Ancient Magic Tree	III
Mining
	Metal	I	Brownish ore.
	Polymetal	II
	Ancient Metal	III

See Also

Gathering Professions