While this is about Bard prereqs, I wanted to comment on gardening since a lot of the concern was with it. Gardening is currently mind numbing. My first 2-3 weeks I mostly gardened cause I found it fun. The problem is once we get high level in gardening we are still required to sit there basically like a zombie and click stuff to get crops/flowers. I for one just gave up as I found this skill to be far too mind numbing to repeat after getting it maxed, and most anyone I know feels the same.

I'd suggest that we be allowed to make crop boxes or something that grow over 24 hours (like with mushroom farming) once we get high enough skill (50, or 70 in gardening). This would reduce tedium while also allowing high level gardeners to get some flowers/crops. It would also be a nice reward for those who leveled this just for Bard since they could unlock the class and also have a passive source of items. One final point, something like this would feed the economy. Just look at mushrooms, before the mushroom farming was added it was somewhat impossible to find most mushrooms for sale, now there are plenty but they are not so common as to be devalued.