One hit rock or tree

[OwlBlackX]

I still leveling both Miner/Botanist 62lvl.

Me hit 5-6 hits rock or tree.
Saw players in HW zone. They can one hit and done one sec.


I'm so wonder how. Was 70lvl skill?

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

I still leveling both Miner/Botanist 62lvl.

Me hit 5-6 hits rock or tree.
Saw players in HW zone. They can one hit and done one sec.


I'm so wonder how. Was 70lvl skill?

Its not possible to clear a node in one hit. Depending on the zone/node however, it could be the player was looking for a specific item from that node which was a "one off" i.e. you can only harvest one of that item from the node. Seeds tend be like that so the player was likely going from node to node and just taking the seeds and leaving the rest. Since the nodes reset when you cycle through 3 or 4 of them, they could just keep cycling through them to get seeds.

[OcieKo]

I still leveling both Miner/Botanist 62lvl.

Me hit 5-6 hits rock or tree.
Saw players in HW zone. They can one hit and done one sec.


I'm so wonder how. Was 70lvl skill?

Could be collectible gathering as well. But thats 2 hits usually, and a few animations in betweem, but not exactly hits.

[Frizze]

When im treasure map hunting thats basically what i do. Fly in, open node, maybe hit once(if it has the map i want), fly away.

[Morzy]

I use to do this. I was checking if my appraisal proced <.<

[Vandril]

Good chance what you saw was someone respawning a particular node in the group of nodes, maybe for a rare item, ephemeral nodes, or even the favors from Heavensward.

There are two types of node groups in FFXIV: groups of 4 singular nodes (most nodes in ARR), and groups of 4 paired nodes (most nodes from Heavensward onward). As most DoH know, nodes respawn by you mining other nodes. What many DoH don't know is that you don't need to finish a node to respawn other nodes. In fact, in pairs of nodes, you only need to hit one of the two nodes once to trigger the respawn for another pair of nodes.

As an example case for using this knowledge, you can "focus" on a particular node. Let's say you want to abuse a +1 Gathering Attempt node for whatever reason. You'd gather from the buffed node and ignore its paired node. Then you'd hit ONE node of the next two paired nodes ONCE EACH, which will cause the +1 Gathering Attempt node to respawn. Then you can go and gather from that buff node again and repeat as much as you like. Note that you only need to hit up two of the node pairs to respawn the buffed node; nodes respawn after hitting two other nodes, so you can ignore the fourth entirely if you want.

This is probably what you saw.