how to get 150-250 clusters per ephemeral node. Money!

[XLauncher]

Let me ask you, what else could it be for?

Nothing else I've seen could possibly require an "emergency maintanance".

I think the community would've noticed if there was something else, don't you?

Why did you ask for this to be kept on the quiet...? If it's perfectly legitimate ofc...

Your arguments are poor. What else could the maintenance be for? Beats me; that's the point of emergency maintenance. To patch things before they become mainstream knowledge. Back during 2.0, they did an emergency patch and it wasn't until after the fact that pretty much anyone found out about being able to use miners to bug Titan. As for why I would have preferred that this remain uncommon knowledge, that's a silly point. Something doesn't have to be illegitimate for people to want it to be uncommon knowledge. Coke isn't doing any illegal, but they don't go giving out the formula for Coca cola to anyone who asks.

[Laerad3993]

You mean the "trick" to refresh nodes lol, so much secrecy for something many people consider common knowledge by now, it has made farming maps and hidden items much faster for everybody since forever. OMG Secret reveladed please fix exploit.

Is this really why the boards have seen a huge influx of Archeoskin and up? Well, guess I won't be able to do these as often now... I just thought there were a ton of people on my server putting them up daily :<

[Shai]

I'd just like to point out that you can Aetherial Reduce certain collectable fish with absolutely no "skills"
You just fish them up and reduce them.
You literally reel in the fish, then click reduction and instant clusters.

They give between 45-60 Clusters.

There's no skill exploit or unintended effect happening here.
This is exactly what Aetherial Reduction is for and working exactly as they intended it to work.

[Frysia]

People complaining about this post and people telling everyone about it.... just means you people using it have a high chance of a ban hammer since the Terms of Usage explicitly state that if you find an exploit you need to report it and not abuse it.

[Ashkendor]

Is this really why the boards have seen a huge influx of Archeoskin and up? Well, guess I won't be able to do these as often now... I just thought there were a ton of people on my server putting them up daily :<

Eh? People have been using that trick since ARR. It wouldn't make it so there'd be a huge influx of maps or anything. You can still only get one map every 18 hours. It just cuts the time that you might spend getting any single map.

People complaining about this post and people telling everyone about it.... just means you people using it have a high chance of a ban hammer since the Terms of Usage explicitly state that if you find an exploit you need to report it and not abuse it.

People keep using this word. I do not think it means what they think it means.

[Laerad3993]

Eh? People have been using that trick since ARR. It wouldn't make it so there'd be a huge influx of maps or anything. You can still only get one map every 18 hours. It just cuts the time that you might spend getting any single map.

Oh? I didn't know that. Well, thanks for the information. I guess I have nothing to worry about then. :P

[IllyriaKnotfred]

I think the people who are screaming exploit are just upset that they personally weren't smart enough to figure this out on their own. It's not an exploit, people have been doing this since the day people had gear to do so- all you had to do was basic math, use the skills GIVEN to us- and aetherial reduction.

[hagare]

You can still only get one map every 18 hours. It just cuts the time that you might spend getting any single map.

wait what? only one map every 18 hours?
but I've gotten multiple maps in an hour from gathering

[Gunspec]

People complaining about this post and people telling everyone about it.... just means you people using it have a high chance of a ban hammer since the Terms of Usage explicitly state that if you find an exploit you need to report it and not abuse it.

I've been telling people about aetherial reduction for two weeks now, because it isn't an exploit. It's a mechanic that enables SKILLED gatherers to farm crystals better than lv 25 RMT bots. It's a positive design shift in gathering and crafting.

You might as well file a report because you've found an ilevel 190 weapon that does more damage than your ilevel 135 relic.

[monterrey4ever]

Is this really why the boards have seen a huge influx of Archeoskin and up? Well, guess I won't be able to do these as often now... I just thought there were a ton of people on my server putting them up daily :<

No, it just saves you time on the gathering phase, you just open the gathering window, see contents, if the map / hidden item you want is not listed, just close the gathering window and move to the next node. You dont need to actually gather the nodes to make them refresh. Just try it on a small zone and you will learn easily how the node spawn works.