I've got mixed feelings about this idea and personally wouldn't go this way to make any improvements. But what would you say is the problem here, journals or gathering itself? Journals and labourer feature could use some dev love, not sure how tho since it's supposed to be just a nice little bonus on top of your grind, while turning them into famebooks is huge of a change and could possibly encourage journal farming in safer areas.



I'd agree tho gathering is very grindy and could be improved since it's also the only activity (maybe with farming as an exception) where you cannot really boost it in any way like crafting or PvE. Had an idea that would address some of current issues with gathering and resource economy, similar to crafting study, where you could "study" a resource node instead of gathering it, which would grant higher amount of gathering fame but destroy the resources in the process, so you could boost your gathering if you really wanted to without flooding the market with resources you gathered just to level up gathering.