120 diremite web in 10~ minutes. No camping!. No fighting RMT!

[Roez]

And if we could get fleece I'd be a happy clam.

Though deep down I know 3:1 and 5:1 shard ratio is still the bottleneck in the game when it takes just as long to gather them at 50 as it did at 5.

You're so very wrong about shard gathering. I am at somewhere around 900-1000 shards an hour, which you can't do at 5.

(1) At 26 mining/botany you have access to the level 30 gathering nodes which yield 2x shards. It's one node out of the four for the level 30 nodes.
(2) At 20 mining/botany for 400 gp you get 2 extra shards (extended to crystals at 40 and clusters at 50) per swing. It takes about 3-4 minutes to gain 400 gp. Mining gets 3 of them, Botany the other three, 1 for each shard type, and they can be shared.

All farming areas have four nodes. Two of the four will always be spawned as you gather. This means once you are level 26 you can chose areas for the shards you want, where you can farm 3 of the 4 nodes. The idea is to farm the 2x shard node once out of every three nodes, instead of once out of every four. This way you are getting a 4th node free every 3 nodes you gather from.