Mining and herb gathering were paths to wealth for many players in God's Domain.
For ordinary players, there were very few ways to make money. They generally relied on quest rewards. Regular monsters rarely dropped money; only monsters at the elite level had a slightly higher chance of dropping it, but even then, it was only an extra two or three percent, and the money dropped was all copper coins.
As for earning materials from monster drops, the chances were even lower than getting money...
When players had first entered God's Domain, farming ordinary monsters was more or less enough to cover weapon and equipment repair costs. However, as their levels rose and their equipment improved, the money earned from regular monsters was nowhere near enough for repairs. Usually, only by farming elite monsters could they barely cover those costs. If they were lucky enough to get a Bronze weapon or piece of equipment, not only would their daily repair expenses be covered, they could even make a small profit.
Unfortunately, that sort of good fortune only existed when God's Domain had first opened.
With every evolution of God's Domain, the Main God System lowered the drop rates for weapons and equipment. Now that God's Domain had evolved so many times, even elite monsters rarely dropped Bronze weapons or equipment. Such items were generally only obtained from field Bosses or dungeons.
That was precisely why lifestyle professions had become so popular.
And the development of lifestyle professions mainly depended on all kinds of materials.
As long as ordinary players were active in the field, they would constantly pay attention to their surroundings. This was not merely to guard against surprise attacks from monsters and other players, but more importantly, to look for ore and herbs.
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