Quote Originally Posted by TurtlesAWD View Post
With maybe 5 hours of crafting a day on weaver in season 3 I was able to get a pretty solid 2nd on my server. Gathering is pretty definitely even more about time spent but I'd hesitate to say people would bot in such a high visibility environment. Unhealthy lifestyle or highly flexible schedule seems more plausible to me. My experience with Firmament basically seems to indicate that if you don't have those 18 hours a day to dedicate to it for any future restoration events in other cities, it's probably better to stick to the crafting for ranking week.
Yes I’m pretty sure the bots are mostly gatherers. I am a weaver sitting comfortably in 8th and possibly going up to 6th this morning and I can’t say i stretched myself. I’ve mostly been crafting sure but my time played hasn’t changed besides one late night.

I do worry that bots will hand in on the last day and sink me, but I can’t see them botting expert recipes and even with botting the 80 recipe I can’t see that this isn’t being won by normal crafters, I personally recognise the top 3 and none of them are cheating. They’re just going all in.