I've not been mining for long and already find it a tad tedious, botany wasn't much better...if I could make one change it would be to remove the whole "there are only 3 nodes in this area" crap... I can honestly say I would enjoy it a whole lot more if I was traveling across the ENTIRE map going from node to node dodging monsters and scouting out areas with little pockets of goodies rather than 3 in the exact same place over and over and over... Hell I would even prefer it if nodes spawned all over and were SHARED them (assuming SE fix the current hack/bot issues) I honestly can't see myself getting MIN/BOT to 50 in its current state and I would consider myself a patient person, hats off to those of you that have already hit cap!