Mollusks and Crustaceans

You should also be able to select which of the two you get.

100% agree! I seem to remember someone saying shellfield used to be able to be hand sampled like other resources (through the complete sampling tool?) a long time ago - could it be reverted back? If I've made that up, obviously ignore me!

All about it. There is a current issue with that quest - I'll try and get it sorted and get a tool so I can start some testing and build a case for it.

Good PV!

Alright - went and did some testing - and I concur with the OP - Here are my thoughts:

1. There should be a system message that tells you that something is happening when you use the tool. Right now you get nothing until the 5-6 seconds where you find out what (if anything) you located.
2. Yield is too low. I'd almost say this should scale with creature harvesting or another similar stat that gives Scout/Ranger the edge for quantity.
3. Definitely agree - auto-stacking is a must
4. The ability to choose what to search for on the tool would be a big benefit.

I would anticipate something like this getting a much closer look when Scout/Ranger starts getting eyes. On board with OP suggestions. Thanks for the PV!

Good call phil, Right now I just sample to see if the shellfish are any better than the current fish meat in the water. I know the Quest for the tool is being reworked also so I am glad I got what I have.

With the current drop being of decent quality, wanted to bump this. It is pretty awful trying to get any amount of this. You basically have to just sit there and manually stack them in your inventory. A full day of babysitting yielding like 50k.

I didn't see this one, and made my own. But yeah, I will upvote this too. The tool is just worthless. I had like 1k after an hour, and I was bored out of my skull. 1k of meat is like harvesting 1 level 70 creature as a xx4x Scout, and that takes a minute at best. With a droid and a spin group you get millions in an hour.

As Sarsaparilla themselves told me to add the info here from my own voice:

As it stands, a Scout (Just xx4x, Master Scout is almost double that) can harvest a level 70 critter from a random spin group for about 700-1000, depending on the health of the creature. With a droid and veghash, a scout can rake in over a million in meat/hide/bone in a mere afternoon of spinning. Extremely lucrative.
Now, fishing... you have a minigame that requires bait. If you manage to catch a fishie that you can harvest, you get some extra bait. It isn't *QUITE* self-sufficient, but you can go for a long time.
The harvests yield about 500ish per fish, if my memory serves. You can get some cool collectibles, a title, etc. Not as lucrative for getting your meat but at least it is somewhat engaging, with some rewards similar to Scout Harvesting (with what the bone/hide/meat/egg/milk collectibles) The yields could be better for the effort one has to put into it.
But now we get to the Mollusks/Crusteans.
You cannot pick which one to go for. Often, you will find nothing. And if you do, the yield is 7-12. It is boring, it is pretty much the same as surveying, but you need to manually use the tool again after every use, your yields are pathetic, there are no minigames attached to it and worst of all, you might not even get the resource you're after. I am fairly convinced at this point that it is more lucrative to use the survey tool that always yields 1 resource is a faster method, because if you're unlucky and get a streak of nothings and/or the wrong resource, the "always gets 1 resource at a longer cooldown on yielding anything" will inevitably catch up.
I was doing it for an hour. Standing in water, and just mindlessly clicking the same damned thing. I got 1k of the thing I want 100k of.
It was all that I could stand.