Quote Originally Posted by SeleneVenizelos View Post
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...
Oh yeah take that pick with you on grade 5 nodes for sure for two reasons:

First you will get about 170 sp per miss and that really adds up!

And Second you will be able to then just get two trees in a close loop to it (Or more likely in iron lake a tree and a bush) then back to the mining node for a quick 170 sp!

And the best part is its 320 sp or so when you dont miss!

There is no down side to it! Don't feel like you missed a oppurtunity, feel like you just got a brave new one!
Venute forth gather people of Eorsea! Wahoo!