I've been walking around lightwood for about 15-20 min just trying to gather 5 potent chamomile needed for the quest to be an alchemist. The random factor in it is not helping. Also, why do the other nearby resources have to disappear once I gather one? I then have to spend more time walking around looking for other resources, again. Why can't other nearby resources remain? That way we won't have to go to another area and possibly do it all
Low level areas really suck for gathering herbs, this gets improved a lot later on.
I don't know does P2P server have a loot pet and is it able to collect herbs/ores - it's the best thing
on F2P although you have to buy the manuals for herbs and ores separate on top of the actual pet.
It does have loot pet, but it doesn't have manuals. I personally think it's awesome, because not every slacker can put the effort into gathering herbs. On f2p herbs are nearly worthless because of those manuals.