resources throughout Eorzea. Disciples of the Hand can utilize these natural FFXIV Gil resources to craft equipment, consumables and countless useful items. Gathering classes consist of Botanist, Fisher and Miner.
Players wishing to unlock these classes may do so after reaching level 10 (or higher) as a Disciple of War or Disciple of Magic by talking to the Guild Receptionist in their respective gathering guild.
Gathering classes are ill-suited for combat, preferring to use stealth to hide from enemies, though doing so reduces movement speed. Just like crafting classes, they cannot participate in any Duties, as there are no resources to be found in any of them. Gatherers also have an exclusive selection of levequests focused entirely on gathering specific materials.
As expected, EXP is typically acquired by gathering items. Botanist and Miner gain an increasing temporary bonus to the amount of experience earned for your current gathering node by successfully increasing their Gathering Chain. A Gathering Chain is an in-game term used to describe the process of successfully gathering multiple items in a row without missing before you run out of gathering attempts. If you trigger Gatherer's Boon multiple times in a row, you increase your Gatherer's Boon Chain. Failing to receive an item (either by missing or running out of attempts) breaks all gathering chains.
All three classes gain a significant bonus whenever they trigger Gatherer's Boon, and a smaller bonus when they collect a resource for the very first time. The base amount gained depends on the level of the item gathered, not the level of the resource spot, though most items are of a similar level.
To switch to a gathering class, equip the tool of that class from your armory chest, just like you would any other class.
Official Gathering Guide on Lodestone.
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Gathering locations are only visible with the appropriate ability active, and only if the corresponding class is high enough level to harvest it (4 levels lower at most). For example, a level 21 Botanist can locate level 25 and lower spots.
Both classes have a secondary type of resource they can collect at level 11 onward – harvesting (BTN) and quarrying (MIN).
After reaching certain levels, both classes can identify special conditions at certain gathering spots. These will result in various bonus effects if a particular stat is high enough, such as increased gathering chance, Gatherer's Boon chance, extra attempts, and more.
Higher-level resource spots will have certain items with additional attributes:
Hidden: Cannot be harvested from every spot. Eventually an ability is learned that can reveal these immediately.
Rare: Can only harvest a single item per spot. Abilities increasing the amount gathered per attempt do not affect these.
At level 46, both classes gain an ability to spot Unspoiled Nodes in the current zone. Unlike regular gathering spots, unspoiled nodes only spawn at specific times. They can only appear one at a time and last for 2 in-game hours, and can even despawn while you're gathering from them. These nodes contain Crafting Materials that cannot be acquired by other means, until after Heavensward when they often contain only collectables Collectable exclusively.
Also beginning in Heavensward, two new types of timed node become available: Folklore Nodes and Ephemeral Nodes. Folklore nodes are used to gather endgame crafting materials at level caps and are only available after purchasing special tomes with Scrip. Ephemeral Nodes are used to gather collectables Collectable to Aetherial reduction icon1.png reduce into aethersands (also required for endgame crafts).
Unspoiled Nodes, Folklore Nodes, and Ephemeral Nodes are all unavailable while Cheap FFXIV Gil using the World Visit System or Data Center Travel system.
