Quote Originally Posted by Elamys View Post
While there's definitely a lot of botting and scripting going on in gathering, in this case, macros slow down gathering. I've been doing scrips for long enough that it takes me hardly any time at all to slap the buttons and move on.
Macros do indeed slow down things but not to the extent that can be seen on Leviathan when a certain "person" is farming Ephemeral Nodes. I've seen the person appear at a node at exactly 04:00 (pop time) seemingly out of thin air then open, do the rotation, fly to two other nodes (opening & closing) & return to the first node before my simple collectable rotation is completed. It's definitely not just the macro delay. Reporting does nothing. They also manage to be at every 'important' node as it pops 24/7. Log on at 4am because you can't sleep - they're there. Log on at 2pm, 8pm, 1am still farming. >_<