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

[Shai]

Do any of the people saying this is an exploit even have a 60 gathering class? To do you the rotation he showed takes 600 gp and to get 300+ rating you need fairly high perception (hq main hand id suppose).

... or as I said, you could just fish up a fish and try it yourself. ^^
No GP necessary!

It's working as intended. The fish are regulated by fishing RNG - you got to get it to bite, you got to reel it in, its randomly generated size effects the quality of the reduction, etc - but still a 8/8 fish literally exploded with clusters. I was quite pleased.

[Jinglybell]

With fishing you cant refresh the node though, so youre getting about the same because its slower to mooch them up. Using that one new skill that increases hq (helps with mooching) takes 470 gp. So yes I agree completely with you. I have reduced some of the tupuxuaras and pteranodons.

(edit also I meant to quote Shai oh well ^^; )

[Shai]

With fishing you cant refresh the node though, so youre getting about the same because its slower to mooch them up. Using that one new skill that increases hq (helps with mooching) takes 470 gp. So yes I agree completely with you. I have reduced some of the tupuxuaras and pteranodons.

Right. It's regulated by different rules than the other two jobs, and yes you can use GP to ease the process along.

My point is I'm not using some sneaky combination of tricks or skills that the developers didn't plan for.

I'm just fishing up a fish and its giving me a ton of clusters. No tricks. It's completely intentional.