Tonight while mining, I kept hearing a chime. A guy told me that it was toil of the mountaineer. Now Ive had botany at 50 for a while now, and just got mining to 50. The way Ive always done botanist is that I would completely ignore the toil of the pioneer ability, and just hit the node i wanted to once to uncover it. Then from there, I would use blessed harvest II, which increase the number of items you get from the attempts. This gives me 5 attempts of 5 items each time, giving me 25 items total if I'm successful. However, if you use toil of the xx, that takes 300 gp, so then you don't have enough to do the BHII to get more items, meaning you will only get 18 items total if you are successful in all attempts.

I mean I guess if you're not sure where exactly the item is, then you would use it, but hell its all over the internet. i have a little cheat sheet of where everything is. just seems inefficient to me. Is there something I am missing here? I am doing it the best way right?