Stress Resistance / Zen Mastery / Meditation Mat balancing

[SwePow]

Meditation Mat is now craftable only at Zen Mastery level 7 which requires Stress Resistance 7.

I am now level 124 after a few weeks playing every day on this server, averaging 60 hours per week. This took me to level 1 Stress Resistance. So even if its not a logarithmitic scale of levels on this one (as it might very well be?) it would take 840 real life hours of playing to get the Meditation Carpet recipe in my example.

Of course there may be some way of leveling Stress Resistance that I dont know of so more opinons and more statistical input is needed.

In my point of view the Meditation Mat should be available after perhaps 100 hours of real life played time so putting it at Zen Master 1 or possibly 2 is my opinion.

[XythQ]

I think a part of this issue is that few folks know how to activate meditation during daily activities without a meditation mat. I'm leveling up Stress resistance pretty quickly now. As it does level slowly with deliberate effort, maybe we should only have 5 levels with mat at level 5?

[pamduncan]

The idea with the mat was that it was supposed to only really be available, as its cheap and easy to make and basically OP when it comes to meditation - very late in game. Since there are many good ways to level up stress resistance at a decent amount it was decided that the mat would be moved to a very end game position when OP would not be a real issue. If the mat is going to be made as something you can get before level 7 then we should consider making it a great deal more complicated to make - ie making a herbal infusion that could be used to treat the threads used on the loom to weave the carpet (as in aromatherapy to aid meditation) and then once the carpet material was made then making it into a meditation mat instead of it being made by running along and picking some grass and creating a carpet, and some of these steps would need to be level gated still. The other option is treat it like rare OP items and make it something that cannot be crafted but is only found in certain high level areas as a rare drop