[Rivvik]

So I like restarting game apparently...either that or I forget what I was doing and restart.

So I'm looking at the second and third armor sets of the game, Leather and Chain.

Leather set gives you the gathering skill, which if I recall, lets you milk a node once or twice more.

Chain set, gives Whim, preventing things like pickaxes and bugnets from breaking as often.

I know both is nominal, but if you had to choose just one for the sake of argument, and only one, barring things like armor and other skills, which would it be?

[Solyeuse]

Now, at endgame, I'd prefer Gathering. Pokke Farm works wonders for not needing Bugnets and Pickaxes; they're cheap, too.

For early game, I'd probably still pick Gathering.

Battle Armor is still best, though.

[Flaxfire]

Conditioner has more votes then gathering? For shame Minegarde...
I prefer Gathering. More materials to build better armor sets. Of course, that means that you're going to have to bring more pickaxes and nets, but thats ok with me.

[SemajChaos]

SO SORRY TO INTERRUPT!!!

[Chaa]

WTF I don't have permission to vote?

I got pwn'd by the forum itself.

(ﾟoﾟ;;

[S13driftAZ]

Having a pickaxe break on you 2 hits before the ruststone/firecell/what-have-you sucks worse than not getting all the extra parashrooms.

[Ecclesiastes]

Whim is for cheap punks who can't afford moar pickaxes.

3 Old Pickaxes/4 Iron Pickaxes/5 Mega Pickaxes(replace with Bugnets as applicable) with Gathering for the win. The only way that's not enough to get through the several primo spots in a given area, if not the whole map, is if (1)you're mining in the Volcano, or (2) the game's trolling you, in which case (1)you're still walking out with several piles of mats or (2)you're going to be boned regardless of the skill you have.