[Tsubame]

WARNING: This guide is image-heavy ^.~

Materials are essential for alchemy. One can create armors or even weapons
with these materials (and are waaayyy better than the Marshall people’s stuff
=P). To get your hands on these materials, you can either buy them from
other players, or collect them yourselves. This guide will show you how to
obtain these stuffs for your needs ^^ (hoorraay~!).

I. The Basics
a.) How can I collect materials?
b.) How can I obtain higher grade materials?
c.) How can I level my collection skills?

II. Materials Information
a.) Farming
b.) Fishing
c.) Forestry
d.) Herding
e.) Mining
f.) Meditation

III. Harvesting Location Maps
a.) Eversun North
b.) Eversun City
c.) Eversun South
d.) Swan Lake Basin
e.) Copperhorn Mountain
f.) Darkdale
g.) Placid Plains
h.) Giantwood Forest
i.) Collington
j.) Grassgreen Square
k.) Blakatoa
l.) East Sea Plain

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THE BASICS

How can I collect materials?

It is essential that you must first have the commoner skill for collecting
the specific material you want – be it Farming ([Farming Finesse skill),
Fishing (Rising Water Skill), Forestry (Forestry Finesse Skill), Herding
(Heightened Herding Skill), Meditation (Thickening Thoughts Skill), or
Mining(Maxi Mining Skill). Next, you need to go to the specific place where
you can collect. The place depends on what do you want to gather:

Farming -- Farm
Fishing -- Fishing Spot
Forestry -- Forestry Area
Herding -- Pasture
Mining -- Mining Area
Meditation -- Meditation Area

Once there, you will find some Royal Guard NPCs, an Apprentice Refiner NPC,
and a Merchant NPC. In order for you to start collecting, you must have the
required "tool item" for gathering, specifically :

Farming -- Hoe
Fishing -- Rod
Forestry -- Axe
Herding -- Fodder
Mining -- Pick Axe
Meditation -- Incense

So talk to the Merchant NPC there and buy the tool needed. Next, find a spot
around the collection area, where you can see a small collection icon at the
top of your chat box. Click that icon, and you will be prompted to choose
what item to use for gathering. Click and drag the item you need to one of
the four boxes to the right, then confirm. Now you’re gathering! ^.~
However, these materials you’re gathering are still raw, and need to be
processed/refined for them to be useful. That’s why there’s an Apprentice
Refiner NPC around. He’ll be willing to refine 20 pieces of the raw materials to
1 piece processed material. ^^

How can I obtain higher grade materials?

To obtain higher grade materials, you need the required level of the
collection skill, as well as the correct tool item with the appropriate grade
required for gathering. For example, to get a Grade 2 material from Meditation,
one needs Commoner’s Everyday Skill in Meditation to be at least level 2 (or at
least Meditation level 10), and use Sandalwood Incense (for gathering Grade 2
and 1 materials).

How can I level my collection skills?

You can level them through leveling your Commoner job and earning skill
points, or using Commoner Spring items. Change to your Commoner job
through the Career Advisor, then press Ctrl A and go to your skills tab and
click Everyday Skills. Then choose the collection skill you want to upgrade.
You will be able to upgrade the skill only if you have enough skill points for it.


Note: It is probably best if you specialize in just one collection skill, unless
you want to level your Commoner job. If you want to be in Alchemy too,
spare some skill points in Apex of Alchemy skill.

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MATERIALS INFORMATION

Note: 20 pieces Raw materials are needed to create 1 Processed material.

Also, per material gathered, the durability of the tool goes down according to the tool's grade.
eg., a grade 3 tool uses 3 durability per unrefined material gathered.
Take note, you cannot repair the durability of the tool, ok?


Author's note: Will be adding the missing names once they're out.

Farming
Farming will enable you to gather materials required for potions that recover HP and SP.
Best paired with Fishing.



Fishing
Fishing will enable you to gather materials required for potions that recover HP and SP.
Best paired with Farming.

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Forestry

Forestry will enable you to gather materials required to make Clothing type
armors (Hunter, Martial Artist, Merchant, and Thief class).



Herding

Herding will enable you to gather materials required to make Robes
(Doctor, Shaman, and Wizard class) and Dancer’s Costumes
(Bard and Dancer class).

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Mining

Mining will enable you to gather materials required to make Heavy
(Mercenary class) and Light (Blademaster, and Fencer classes) Armors.



Meditation

Meditation will enable you to gather materials required to make weapons
for all classes.

[Tsubame]

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HARVESTING LOCATION MAPS

Author's note: Will be adding more harvesting locations once implemented. ^.~

[Tsubame]

[Tsubame]

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References:
Dream of Mirror Online - www.mmosite.com
[Reference List] Collection Grounds Locations - DOMO Aeriagames Forums


Credits
Tsubaki for being my photographer.. <3

[Lord Smoo]

Hmm this is really nicely done. I was going to do something similar (minus the maps) on the website, but with your approval would like to use bits of your work :P Do you still have the .psd files ?

[Tsubame]

Sure, can use them..^^

About the .psd files, I just have two (one file for all mats & other for maps).. then just hide layers and save.. :P If you want I'll make separate .psd files for each kind of mat type and map..

[Lord Smoo]

No, I'll just need the psd for the maps. What I'm going for is on the domoguide recipe guide... in the right menu bar, list the different collection area and when you highlight/click on them, a transparent overlay would apear onmap with the little logos you made to overlay the map.

The only thing missing from your guide is what tier materials you can mine at what location

[Tsubame]

..yeah.. trying to gather more info on those.. :P

btw, how can i send u the psd files? @__@