I.e. I have one character with maximum investment in double gathering. An hour per week (could be in 10 minute chunks) provides enough herbs to feed to an alchemist for phials. Admittedly, I play healers, my potion needs are very modest, but even so this is my strategy. If I was playing dps and needed dps potions I would farm a few more herbs. My alchemist(s) only need 1 phial every 60-90 minutes of dungeon/raid time.
Fish and meat are not hard to come by; I kill whatever attacks me, and very occasionally I spot an Islefin Dorado school and fish it. I did the feast a lot in season 1 and have 3x flavour pockets, so I use 1 food per 2 hours.
It does not take as much time to be self sufficient as people think. Whether 1-2 hours/week is personally worth it to you, that’s another matter; but if you are trying to pug as dps and spending your time running circles around the Valdrakken fountain (there’s always something to circle…) then just maybe that character should invest in herbalism. Most professions appear to have hit a dead end at this point, and it might be time to admit it.
I want to enjoy farming / making gold… But that quickly goes away when I realize I could make FAR more gold by picking fruit in Lincolnshire for slave wages.
If i farm ~20k gold per hour, that’s equivalent to a whooping £1.00 per hour. No thanks!
Unless you live in Eastern Europe where a lot of people have under 7 euro per hour lol.
I like making gold by doing old raids and vendoring stuff and selling boe’s, doing the fly quests and picking plants in zaralek. Generally just playing the game.
Playing the game is way to go, I just like progression
Yesterday I did 4 dungeon call to arms, got 11 runes plus gold in bag - in total got almost 23k gold, just from playing few dungeons during right moment
Oh yeah i also did 1 call to arms in a random heroic dungeon yesterday and got 2 augment runes… got about 3.5k from those. xD
But sadly i didn’t have another bag show up.