I recently unlocked the Deep Deep and I was so disappointed. Especially with the added gems, the amount of stuff you can find in each location is simply too much with the size limit of the cart and the fact that you have to drag unsmelted ores back and forth (constantly using up those precious few slots in the cart) if you don't get the right amount. This really needs to change. Why am I still finding silver ore in the Deep Deep (the highest level area), when you can already find silver ore in the second area?!

There is no need to be able to find silver ore in 4 of the 5 areas. There is no need to find iron ore in 4 of the 5 areas. Remove them from the higher level areas. AND (possible an 'or', but ideally an 'and') let is drop off unsmelted ore at the furnace (not as in discarding them, but dropping them off to be smelted later), so that even when you don't get the right amount now, the limited slots in the cart aren't constantly wasted by dragging the same stuff back and forth.

@Gaia - I was so looking forward to unlocking the Deep Deep soon, as I assumed that silver would stop dropping there. Disappointed to learn that it doesn't. (-____-)'

I've been super disappointed to hear about how much of a waste of time and resources the later mining areas get. :/

The way a lot of professions are designed right now really hampers my enjoyment of the them, and desire to level them up as a whole, so I haven't progressed as far as a lot of people have despite being here from the start as well-- even the way the campaign unlocks behave with later levels of mining and fishing and what sounds like incessant spam of certain encounters in certain encounter zones even if you don't have the materials to engage with them, instead of being locked behind you already having the prerequisites so you don't just lose 5 stamina for encounters you can't even do.

It's just a bummer, professions should be exciting and beneficial to the player, right now they just feel like a constant micromanaging battle with very little in the way of fun or benefits to even leveling them up.