Quest To Upgrade Gathering Grade Level

You can't collect Grade D or higher grade mineral? or Gemstone? or Plant?
That's because your Gathering level is not high enough to collect higher grade materials.

I think now it's time for the quest for leveling up your Gathering level.
Unlike Crafting Skill level which always leveled up with each time you produced a new stuffs, Gathering level can only leveled up if your experience is max and you finish the quest for that corresponding level.
Well if your Gathering level isn't get higher, you can't collect higher grade mineral, thus you also can't produce higher grade crafted stuffs, ultimately your crafting skill will also stuck, in the end you can't produce higher/better stuffs.
So I will give you the guide on how to do those quest.

Grade E > Grade D Quest

Quest to get your Gathering to D Level. It's very easy.
1. Max your gathering bar first keep gathering the material of your choice(mineral, gem, or plant). Press C and click the Gathering tab to see your gathering exp bar. If it's full then proceed to the next step.
2.Talk to Colek NPC at Crafting Studio and accept the quest to upgrade your Gathering level to grade D.
3.You need to collect 20 piece of each kind of materials for your job gathering type. For example : if you are on gemstone, then you need 20 Green Mano, 20 Imperial Topaz, 20 Cat's Eye, 20 Aquamarine and 20 Spinel. Grade E.
4. When done report to Colek and your Gathering level will upgraded. Now you can collect Grade D materials.

You can buy the next grade equipment for Gathering and Crafting at NPC Kinsendel inside Black Dragon Sanctuary. He also sells blueprints for the grade D. Be sure to buy some so you can produce higher grade and gain more crafting level.

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 Grade D > Grade C Quest

1. Maximize your skill at Grade D first which is 125 point. Check your Gathering bar always.
2. Now go to Crafting Studio and accept the new quest from Colek NPC.
3. After this, go to Black Dragon Sanctuary to meet your next NPC. You can go there via Tormaline Quarry Entry Bindstone and go South from there. Buy the portal stone at Arbelorn Sundries if you didn't have it.
4. When you arrived, depending on your Gathering type job, you need to speak with certain NPC.
For Gemstone, you have to speak with Laine NPC, she is inside BD Sanctuary, just after the first turn near entrance. There are many Eyeball monsters nearby that is quite dangerous if you are underleveled. Be careful.
For Mineral, you have to speak with Giff NPC, he is just in front of Laine NPC.
For Plant, you have to speak with Chubchub NPC, but he is outside BD Sanctuary. Look for him just nearby the entrance.

Laine NPC

Chubchub NPC

Giff NPC

All of them will ask help to recover their gathering equipment. Different NPC has different equipment and the location is also different(rest easy you have me to tell you where).
The problem is, they are all inside the sanctuary, and many dangerous monsters lurk inside. You have to be very careful and have a good gear to survive the journey. I'm not joking!

Here's the location.

Yellow Square indicating room with Laine's equipment. You can find her equipment in this room.

Green Square indicating room with Giff's equipment. You can find his equipment in this room.

Red Square indicating room with Hoyar/Chubchub's equipment. You can find his equipment in this room. Be careful there's a BOSS in this room.

Laine quest

Chubchub quest

Giff quest

5. After you recover the thing, go report back to the corresponding NPC(Plant = Chubchub, Gemstone = Laine, Mineral = Giff)
6. Finish, now you can gather grade C materials.

Oh and you can upgrade your equipment for collecting into Grade C equipment. If your crafting level is 11 now, you can also upgrade your crafting equipment and start to produce Grade C stuffs.
The equipment and blueprints can be bought from NPC Siselone at Rahkon Dungeon Lv1.
To get to him fast follow my guide.

Buy Portal Rahkon Dungeon Lv2 at Gathering Hall.
Now use it and you will be ported to Rahkon Dungeon Lv2.
Go to the gate portal nearby to be ported to Rahkon Dungeon Lv1.
When you arrive at Rahkon Dungeon Lv1, look  for Siselone NPC nearby.

Siselone NPC

Buy the stuffs you need to maximize your performance of gathering.
NOTE : This is the best Crafting and Gathering Equipment which is at Grade C. 
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Grade C > Grade B Quest

This one is pretty simple.
Go to your respective NPC in Black Dragon Sanctuary(Mineral = Giff, Gemstone = Laine, Plant = Chubchub) and accept the quest.
They will give you a very simple quest, which is testing your knowledge about which one is the material they will ask you to determine.
Behind each of these NPC there are 5 type of material that we are used to collect in the world map. Now you are to choose which one is the correct material they asked.
Just choose one.
If by any chance you messed up, or chose wrong material, you can quit the quest via press "J" and choose quit and go to the NPC to start it again. Very easy.
When you chose the correct material, the quest will be completed and report back to your corresponding NPC. Gratz you are now Grade B collector level.

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Grade B > Grade A Quest

Maxed your Grade B collection skill level?

Alright this prolly the hardest quest because you need to be in a very high level and strong. We will venture inside Rahkon Dungeon Lv4(R4)

First go to Gathering Hall and buy Rahkon Dungeon Lv3 Portal Stone.
Use it and you will be ported inside R3. Now you need to travel into the portal that will lead you to R4.
Below the map and the Green Square indicated the room where the portal to R4 lies. Follow the Green Arrow to reach that room fast. Be careful many monster with high level lurks along the corridor.

Rahkon Dungeon Lv3 Map.

 After you arrive there, go to the gate portal to be ported to R4.

The gate portal in R3 will send you randomly to one of the four room in R4. In those 4 room, there's a portal that you can use to go back to R3 again You need to be in the room in the Green Square. If you are not in the Green Square room(which is where the NPCs is), go back to R3 using the nearby portal and re enter R4. Keep repeating until you are in the Green Room in R4. Refer to the map below for Green Room. If it still won't let you port to the Green Room, then sadly you need to manually travel there first.

Rahkon Lv4 Map

`Now talk to your corresponding NPC. Teebon(the gemstone), Twin(Mineral), and Haigee(Plant). Accept the quest.

Gemstone Quest : You need to find Black Stone.
Mineral Quest : You need to find Tungsten.
Plant Quest : You need to find Golden Tree.

Below is the room where you can find these items.

Rahkon Lv4 Map

Green Room : Black Stone
Red Room : Golden Tree
Yellow Room : Tungsten.

Remember, go back to R3 and Re-enter R4 just so you get teleported to the nearest portal to the room where the item lies.

WARNING : There is a BOSS in every room in this map. You want to be in high level and geared properly to survive this map. The hardest is getting the Tungsten, there are many stun monsters along the way.

I only give screenshot to Black Stone which is my path for Gemstone. But the other items should be in the room I indicated with the Colored Square. When you done, report back to the corresponding NPC. Congratulations! You are Grade A for Gathering skill level.

Now you are in the highest level of Gathering. What are you waiting for? Go maximize your Crafting level too and create a great quality stuffs.
Happy crafting :)

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