Would you spend AA's on Forage AA Skill?

[GrimwoodCT]

Would you consider spending aa's on a tiered Forage Skill as an aa skill?

Forage:
4 or 5 tiers, 3 points/tier with an increasing skill cap with each tier.

Be nice for non-forage classes/races to get a shot at some of the foraged items out there, maybe even up the difficulty by making the forager create a ND foraging sickle or bag or item.

Just a silly though as I cast for the 440th time for Cobalt Cod.

Grim

[Nolrog]

Isn't this horse dead already.

/em dons his flame retardant suite.

FLAME ON.

[Saleani]

Let's see. It takes about 8 hours in Thurgadin to forage enough tufts of dire wolf to make one haversack, with 180s skill and the foraging machete. Pressing the forage key every time it recycles, I've been getting a skill up in forage about once per 24 hours of foraging. I have no clue how those folks with 10+ haversack tokens in the bazaar got that many.

Would you consider spending aa's on a tiered Forage Skill as an aa skill?

No. At the rate tradeskills are getting fouled up with half-thought-out changes, I will have quit the game before I could get another character to near 200 skill.

All the other folks in my guild are level 70 with ~400-600 AAs. I, however, have wasted too much time tradeskilling and questing. I wouldn't even qualify to app my current guild. Some of the raids now take place in zones I cannot enter for 2-3 more levels.

[whatparadox]

Let's see. It takes about 8 hours in Thurgadin to forage enough tufts of dire wolf to make one haversack, with 180s skill and the foraging machete.

<derail>
You might want to try Kael Drakkal for those. No hard data to prove it, but I'll claim the rate is better there.
</derail>

[tnexus]

Or Eastern Wastes, I destroy them like mad there.

[Itek]

Would I? Possibly...

Will I -ever- be able to? ..... Unlikely...

My third character is (well, was as I no longer play him much) a druid taxi/forage bot. If I need tradeable foraged stuff I usually have a surplus... like a mule or two full of foraged junk...

(Made a buddies day one time, he wanted veggies and they were going for 2pp or more EACH in the bazaar.... Give him almost 400. Thought he'd offer to have a baby for me.)

The only thing 'forage' would be nice to buy for is the Gunthak Gulf Water for my cleric (character number 4 and the one I play the most right now) ... but since I figure to finish that quest right around level 51 I'd be NUTS to sink AA points into forage.

[Aryse Andenter]

(Made a buddies day one time, he wanted veggies and they were going for 2pp or more EACH in the bazaar.... Give him almost 400. Thought he'd offer to have a baby for me.)

Back when veggies were going from 20-50pp per... yes per... I would have given my eye teeth for a forage AA I could get (or even some veggies at 2pp per ). If there was an AA that allowed my erudite to forage I'd probably wind up getting it sooner or later, and using it, but it isn't one of the more pressing issues to me. And if it is only for those who can forage already to improve their skill... well, not even any of my alts are foragers, unfortunately, so it just wouldn't matter.

[Druegar]

Hell yes I'd spend AAs to be able to forage!

[Hildaorm]

As a Barb Shaman/Alchemist my only skill up route above 200 with reasonable cost requires foraged stuff (while I question the wisdom of requiring things for a class based trade, to need things they can not easly get) I would very much buy a forage AA skill.

[Xodar]

Level 70 woodelf ranger, I spent AA just to be able to forage *more*, lol.

Nature's Bounty AA, 3 tiers, with third tier "Your foraging mastery has enabled you to find something else" fires ~70% of the time (shooting from the hip, could be higher, will have to parse).

It's most useful to me for LDoN (limited forage window and I hate smithing more every day) and foraging for big batches of clockwork grease or planar fruit. For a tradeskiller it's a real timesaver.

I do have to concede that non foragers catch the shaft on a lot of PoP+ combines. You can't just start a low level alt and forage in PoP zones.

[Itek]

You can't just start a low level alt and forage in PoP zones.

Um, the time/exp taken to gain say... 9 aa points....

VS. the time it takes to PL a druid to 46....

That's gotta be pretty close I'd think...

In the end I'm not holding my breath for Forage AA for non-class-ability people. Of course since I've retired my Enchanter main and Druid alt for a 36 Cleric... I'm not doing nearly as much Tradeskill stuff anymore. (I'm already trying to decide if I'm ever going to try the Epic/Shawl quests on the cleric. The click rez sounds nifty... but snow griffon eggs and geonids make my eyes bleed with boredom just thinking about it.)

[Moraganth]

would it be nice.. yes

would it be right to dilute yet another set of classes of a skill that's theirs alone... no

we don't need all the classes to be the same

[CaiserSoze]

Don't see it ever happening... but heck, I'd have no problem paying 20 AA per tier for the ability to forage... easier than going through the hassle of loading up a foragebot and hitting forage hotkey repeatedly since there isn't an autoforage command... (programming gamepads to do that is bs. =) )

[Xodar]

Um, the time/exp taken to gain say... 9 aa points....

VS. the time it takes to PL a druid to 46....

That's gotta be pretty close I'd think...
(trimmed a little)

Hmmmmmm. I recently PL'ed a chanter with a friend to 60 (we both would 2 box her for xp in solo time). The 45-46 range was a major goal, because then we could simply group her and do regular soloing. Now keep in mind I have at my disposal on accounts seperate to the chantie and each other a lvl 70 ranger, lvl 70 cleric, lvl 65 shaman, and a 66 rogue, although I only run any 2 + the chantie at one time. So buffs are a non issue, as is any healing, decent ds through me and sham potions, chanter able to safely charm red mobs because of her back up......................................maybe 50 hours played to get to 45. I may have been able to be a little more efficient, but not a lot, and was particularly well suited to small scale PL'ing (I'll concede if you can run 5+ toons you would probably go faster but.....).

I can solo 9 AA on my ranger in 9 hours while I watch tv and without the stress of boxing. It's not a very direct comparison.

And again, I am not hurting for any forages personally, but I know that I have made more friends then I can count happy because they have no access to them themselves shy of paying pp for them when they can find them.

Ever see what a gnome does when you give them 200 clockwork grease, lol? = )

[Yuliya]

50 hours?

After reading your post I logged in to check my brother's warrior that i have been pl'ing with him... Ironically, right at 50 hours and level 56.. that's with grouping with pl chars on my other accounts sometimes.

I have never taken a copper piece for pl'in, but I do consider myself a **** good pl'er. 46 should take no more than 30 hours if u have a druid... like me

It's all about imagination..

They should make pl'ing a tradeskill.. hehe

And.. where do you get an aa an hour solo..?