Is harvesting in Roots still possible after todays patch ??

[shrike]

Oh, make no mistake, the patch certaintly did address the situation.

You cannot compare the fubar'ed harvesting situation of aeden with prime roots. For example, getting q150+ excellent mats isn't very difficult in the outskirts of witherings.
You can get 1 qualitylvl better mats in prime roots, but you have (now) also a more dangerous enviroment there and you (now) cannot mass-harvest them. Prime Roots are now actually quite balanced compared to the "normal" (ak non-Tryker) Mainlands.

The main problem were IMO not the prime roots as they were pe se, but that harvesters can get supreme mats at lvl 35. With that it was perfectly possible to get supreme mats at DAY ONE. Lvl to 35, get into roots, enjoy. If the "get better mats" abilities would have been more spread along the harvesting tree (10/30/100/175 instead of 0/10/20/35, for example) the whole mess wouldn't have happened in the first place.

[violete]

Updated report:

Getting to the roots without teleport ticket can be done. My guildmate did it yesterday alone, in Abyss of Ichor. When inside, just keeping your distance to patrols (and having radar on 250m) will suffice.

As for the mats, I found plenty of supreme mats already, and even more choice/excellent. Getting supreme so far is based on luck (as it's virtually impossible to interpret patterns or whatnot by yourself) and the EXACT spot you're now digging choice can have supreme, say like, in 15mins for 2mins. When you find supreme you won't be digging it up very long, so might as well try to take as much as hominly possible. Excellent is available for a bit longer than supreme, but is based on the same thing: it's there when it's there.

How exactly did he get inside? I racked up my DP to the maximum trying to get past those Awesome Kinchers at the entrance. I'd like to harvest in roots to just get some different color Choice mats.

[oloriun]

How exactly did he get inside? I racked up my DP to the maximum trying to get past those Awesome Kinchers at the entrance. I'd like to harvest in roots to just get some different color Choice mats.

Wait until they are in such a position that you can just walk by. It may take 10 minutes.... may take an hour.. agro range is about 25m if I remember correctly.

[mboeing]

How exactly did he get inside? I racked up my DP to the maximum trying to get past those Awesome Kinchers at the entrance. I'd like to harvest in roots to just get some different color Choice mats.

Or get a group of 5-6 people that know what they are doing, kill them off, and find your way to the nearest teleporter. From then on just make sure you are always supplied with tickets.

But I would hurry up, because it might not be possible anymore after patch 1.