Quote Originally Posted by Orcishgrappler View Post
Oh yeah get out that mining pick! It will make you feel so much better! Mining is ALOT of fun and it makes it so much easier to gather. You only need 3 spots to rotate between mining/botany so you can do one mining node and two trees, or to mining nodes and one tree, or one bush, one tree, and one mining node. It makes it so much faster to level! (The best is when you get a mining node, and bush, and a tree right next to eachother, (for the quarry node in treespeak) then you can just get those three in a tiny loop of pure joy!!!
I have often seen people switching between the two recently and wondered how they had the patience to level both. I see that I have clearly missed a beautiful oppurtunity to level both in only keeping with one. I unfortunately did not think to pursue the reasons why they were switching between mining and botany, and just assumed it was to take advantage of nodes spaced very close to each other!

Thank you for the pointers both of you, and until this is either scaled down (hopefully) or removed (wishful thinking), I will take these pointers and try and maximise my efficiency. I think when I'm gathering on Botanist there's going to be a lot of fails on Grade 5 mining spot! I wonder how much a fail at R6 on a Grade 5 will give me...