For someone like myself who suffers quite severely with RSI, I think the gathering mechanic in this game is really archaic, and serves aggravate existing health conditions. Having to continuously perform the same action for hours on end, can be really quite painful.

So my proposal is for some kind of auto-gather function to be implemented, which if you can imagine, would be like the auto-synthesis for crafting. This would be limited to:
  • No wards, or any percentage modifiers
  • A base chance for a failed swing, even if the gather rate appears 100% - (you are sacrificing gathering rate for convenience)
  • Lowered HQ chance
  • Increased item wear
  • 4/5 swings would take the same amount of time as the average manual gather from each node

Personally the sacrifices above would all be worthwhile, if it meant that my mousing hand remains comfortable.

Any constructive thoughts to add to this would be great.