how to get 150-250 clusters per ephemeral node. Money!

[monterrey4ever]

Why do you think that? The window for any ephemeral node is four Eorzean hours per Eorzean day. To get one to spawn, you have to clear out two patches of nodes which eats into the window. The material that can be reduced into this amount of clusters appears uncommonly: like, 1 in 5. If they were going to fix something related to this, it would be the trick that allows you to save time on the node respawn which would be deserved, but there's zero reason for them to fix the reduction yield itself.

You mean the "trick" to refresh nodes lol, so much secrecy for something many people consider common knowledge by now, it has made farming maps and hidden items much faster for everybody since forever. OMG Secret reveladed please fix exploit.

[Laerad3993]

You mean the "trick" to refresh nodes lol, so much secrecy for something many people consider common knowledge by now, it has made farming maps and hidden items much faster for everybody since forever. OMG Secret reveladed please fix exploit.

Is this really why the boards have seen a huge influx of Archeoskin and up? Well, guess I won't be able to do these as often now... I just thought there were a ton of people on my server putting them up daily :<

[Ashkendor]

Is this really why the boards have seen a huge influx of Archeoskin and up? Well, guess I won't be able to do these as often now... I just thought there were a ton of people on my server putting them up daily :<

Eh? People have been using that trick since ARR. It wouldn't make it so there'd be a huge influx of maps or anything. You can still only get one map every 18 hours. It just cuts the time that you might spend getting any single map.

People complaining about this post and people telling everyone about it.... just means you people using it have a high chance of a ban hammer since the Terms of Usage explicitly state that if you find an exploit you need to report it and not abuse it.

People keep using this word. I do not think it means what they think it means.

[Laerad3993]

Eh? People have been using that trick since ARR. It wouldn't make it so there'd be a huge influx of maps or anything. You can still only get one map every 18 hours. It just cuts the time that you might spend getting any single map.

Oh? I didn't know that. Well, thanks for the information. I guess I have nothing to worry about then. :P

[hagare]

You can still only get one map every 18 hours. It just cuts the time that you might spend getting any single map.

wait what? only one map every 18 hours?
but I've gotten multiple maps in an hour from gathering

[monterrey4ever]

Is this really why the boards have seen a huge influx of Archeoskin and up? Well, guess I won't be able to do these as often now... I just thought there were a ton of people on my server putting them up daily :<

No, it just saves you time on the gathering phase, you just open the gathering window, see contents, if the map / hidden item you want is not listed, just close the gathering window and move to the next node. You dont need to actually gather the nodes to make them refresh. Just try it on a small zone and you will learn easily how the node spawn works.

[Ashkendor]

No, it just saves you time on the gathering phase, you just open the gathering window, see contents, if the map / hidden item you want is not listed, just close the gathering window and move to the next node. You dont need to actually gather the nodes to make them refresh. Just try it on a small zone and you will learn easily how the node spawn works.

^ exactly this. Personally, I haven't been doing it; I go to search for my maps at nodes that have something that's of use to me. I have a lot of crafters to level up, and hunting for maps helps grind mats and gatherer exp. ^^

[Limecat]

Is this really why the boards have seen a huge influx of Archeoskin and up? Well, guess I won't be able to do these as often now... I just thought there were a ton of people on my server putting them up daily :<

No, you can still only get one per 18 hours. People are selling them for less because they probably don't drop anything particularly great, and there will be a lot of people who focused on the MSQ and leveling a combat job to 60 over gathering which might just now be starting to poke around for maps and the like. In this case "faster" means checking nodes as they respawn to save yourself time getting your one map.