Hello NW,
As a crafter and gather, the game is very enjoyable, you have multiple good routes for a lot of resources allowing if someone is doing runs somewhere you an travel somewhere else and usually be able to gather a good amount of material. HOWEVER, with motes its a whole different story, its painful and no matter where I travel to it seems they are never up and I have to sit and wait at a single node for the respawn timer. This makes it incredibly hard to level up arcana, engineering, and many more crafting professions. I think there needs to be some consideration to increasing the nodes around and potentially having good motes routes in higher tier zones or increasing the amount that drops. ALSO seems that earth motes in particular and maybe others arent dropping at same numbers. with a strong proficiency potion I get around 15 air motes but for earth ill get maybe 10.
Please consider helping out your gathering and crafting community with the mote issue. I understand there is some PTR work with tool perks however I still feel there should be better routes and more node locations around the map.
Thank you,
MistaGump