[Responded] Mining Gems Gives Low XP

12/14/2017 7:42 PM
Title: Mining Gems Gives Low XP
Reproduction Rate: 100%
Blocker? Mining gems yields an exceedingly low amount of crafting XP... like 100, even though it takes a similar amount of time to mine a gem as an ore node.

Most players do not mine gems because it is considered a waste of time, and better to get them from a troll. I'm reporting as a bug because I am questioning why the devs would have intentionally implemented a game mechanism that is useless.

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OS: Windows 10 (10.0.0) 64bit
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz (8) System RAM: 16274
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 GPU RAM: 6084
SotA.EarlyAccess.LIVE.Win.64.709.Date.12.13.17

 

So misconception to note. Different difficulties of harvest do take different times. Currently down at the bottom floor of Eceter Crag. At my current speed it takes 6 mattock strikes to harvest a 93% ore node, 5 mattock strikes to harvest a large gem node and 4 mattock strikes to harvest a medium gem node. I do agree that gem nodes being 100 is a let down though.

 

Thanks for the correction... Sure then perhaps somewhere around 65-85% of the ore XP.

It would be nice to pair up with somebody in a mine... You take the ore, I'll take the gems.

 

No problem. With my regular group we had to divide floors due to harvest speed in olde Elysium. If two of us were working the same floor we'd easily outstrip the respawn rate.

 

Not really useless; certain color gems spawn in different scenes and if you are there mining already and need them for enchanting they can be good. They can be very abundant in certain areas...there is one underground passage I'm thinking of particular. Upping the XP could possibly be exploitable for crafting XP. There have been no code changes here. If it changed mysteriously, I could submit as a bug review. Trolls do drop them but you obviously don't have a choice in what kind you get.
@Jaanelle DeJure

 

Thanks for the reply, @Lexie . If it is indeed intentional design, I will stop harassing you in the bug forums about it!

 

It's all good!