Quote Originally Posted by Castillan View Post
My approach is this:

You know which slot it's at (the thing that you want), so no need to use Toil. 1 pick will clear it.

Leaf Turn II
Collect twice
Ageless Words
Collect 3 more times
Activate Brunt Force for last collect (assuming all 5 collects were successful)

I'm actually 50 miner/49 bot atm, but that's what I do with miner, I just replaced the abilities with the equivalent Botany ones.

Generally I'll get at least 2 x HQ gathers per node. If I'm lucky, 4.

If you've got >=630GP (using food and more melds) use Field Mastery I at the start as well for a 95% gather chance, and activate Ageless Words after the 4th pick when your GP comes back up to 300.
Ageless Words and Toil have the exact same GP cost so why not just use Toil? You also are not getting 100% success and the RNG in this game is stupid. I would rather have the sure thing and get generally (same as you) 2 HQ swings a node.