I'm on my 4th toon, been around since launch, and this has always been by far the most infuriating gathering skill in the game. For starters, the yield for fabrics and metals is waay too low. Even at 400, the yield for grade 4 metals and fabrics is moderate to abundant, at best. Second of all, 1 fabrics mission and 1 metals mission along with 5 freaking comp gift missions (and as often as not ALL comp gift missions) does absolutely jack for people who get the skill for anything other than comp gifts. It gets particularly irritating when you get to the point where your comp is gone for a half hour, and comes back with 3-4 blues, and they go right in the bank with the other 3 stacks I've acquired during the course of trying to get enough purples to craft a freaking armoring mod. A stack of 10 grade 4 purple metals is going for 150k on my server. So I can do that, or a one-time use gathering mission for 30k with which I may get 2-3 purples, if im lucky. Please give us underworld traders some love and fix this.