Foraging & Gathering should switch names.

[Vyndian_Thor]

I wonder if anyone else feels the same way here. I'm not suggesting any change to how these two professions work-- only to their names.
"Foraging" to me is intrinsically linked to the forest and gathering food. You collect food items in both places (Hopeport and Hopeforest), so it could work in either one, but I think it makes much more sense for the forest.
"Gathering" is really just a more generic word with the same meaning. But I really feel like I'm *gathering* those monument pieces more than I am *foraging* them.

This is an opinion, and many will disagree! That's OK! Keep it clean and classy, fellow guardspeople. =]

[Greb]

I think they should be merged, while also being a "global skill" not specific to any episode.

Then another skill added relating to the recovery of inanimate things like bones and so on, probably "Excavation" or "Reclaimation" or whatever. Also used for gathering salvage, scrap wood, hazardous materials like crystals, all of that kind of stuff.

Foraging / Gathering merged into living things like fruit, herbs, flowers, small lifeforms, bugs, that kind of thing. The least "alive" thing would be stuff like shells on the beach, which are a morally grey area, right?

Different tools for both - nets, shears, secataurs, garden fork, sickle etc for Foraging / Gathering, and then stuff like Protective Gloves, Trowel, Rock Hammer, Tongs for Excavation / Reclaimation.

Then Excavation / Reclaimation could have its own major focus being the restoration of monuments, recovery of huge fossils, crystal pieces, in each biome specifically. As well as recovering useful materials, of course. I think that'd be neat. Monument in Hopeport, some giant fossil in Hopeforest, maybe a giant clockwork mechanism in the mines, and some museum filled with antiques and artifacts in Crenopolis etc.

Basically we'd be turning every Guardian into Indiana Jones and Lara Croft. Come for the bones, stay for the ancient history and antiques auction.

[Omega Haxors]

The first region's skill should have been called "beachcombing" yes it's not exactly 100% accurate but it's more accurate than foraging, which is more of a forest thing.

[God]

I agree with the OP. But I'm used to them now and I don't really pay much attention to that as it's not especially important. Lvl 35 baby Titan spiders are.

[Pyro3000]

Personally, I'm excited for a future Rummager profession, and maybe a Collector.