Greetings,
So I have leveled 70-80 on 3 classes now that are double gatherer. A few things I have noticed.
Mining had no equivalent to Deepgroove Roots. How is this fair?
Mining takes about 4x longer to get all the weekly slates than herbing does roots.
Herb has WAY more hidden items you see when using true sight, so you get more points into herbalism by discovering these.
Mining has the EZ nodes which are cancer. Herb has the one that puts a DoT on you…big deal if you have a class that can clean it or out heal it.
I think mining needs more equality on how you can get skills. They need something like deepgroove roots, so that if I am away for a week or two I can catch up on my skills. Also the slates shouldn’t be taking me hours vs the 20mins or so it takes to do herbing’s roots.
Thanks.
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Herbing requires more total KP than Mining to max - Mining only requires 500 vs 560 for Herb. Plus you can skip 25 points from mining has there’s very little seams that it would be worthwhile until the very end to spend those points.
The EZ nodes slowly becoming my favorite overload since different ore can jump out from that. I wonder how it’ll function with a fully speced outlawed techniques branch.
I can agree that mining can take a bit of time to get the KPs each week, but it would be nice if mining had an equivalent to the seeds as herbalism does get a chance to have a bunched plots vs having to travel for ores. Not to mention that refinement of herbs is not placed in the respective trees, only the main bountiful harvests while mining has to invest into each line for the refinement.
It does - the mining item is called “Null Sliver”. It only drops when you’ve gotten all six weekly drops and completed the weekly quest, which a lot of people aren’t doing this week due to the high cost of the null stones for the weekly.
I think this is based on your perception stat. I have a bunch of double crafting alts and this week three of them got their herbing 6 items first, four of them got their mining items first.
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Also, this is probably a bug, but if you do not use your deepgroove roots, or buy any herb books, you just keeping getting roots. So it is possible to cap herbalism earlier due to this.
I found on the chars I used them as I got them, they stopped after maybe 15-20. The one I am not using them has 50 so far in his bags. He just keeps getting them when I go out on a run.
I would just like to see a catch up for mining as my newest guy is way behind my day 1 miner.
I’ve done all that and haven’t seen the Null Silver at all. And that’s while doing a fairly significant amount of extra mining this week while leveling my JC alt.
The slivers and roots are the catch up mechanics for mining and herbalism. My toons that have started to herb or mine from day one have never received them. A miner that i started leveling the week after received a number of them until it had caught up with the other toons.
I never got the mining one. I think because I always grab the mining books first and they “count”…
Its a bug.
I have another alt I will do next week and I am not doing any books. I will see if I get any null sliver. I have never seen it and I have different ranges of alts. The thing I think makes me not get it is I buy books so i can mine while mounted. I do herb second because i have the sky golem.
Get really close, often the blasting area is just far enough that you can hug the node and not get hurt. Rarely do I see an EZ mine node that blows from under the node instead of spreading out away. When you’re real close, the mining speed is much faster so take advantage of it.
If you use steady flight, land right on top, never get hurt. Mining speed will be slower but it’s the safest way
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Saw this tip before. Yup they have the ones that blow up while you are on top. I died 
I usually skip EZ nodes now that I use true sight pots. With those pots up, there is plenty enough stuff to grab without the EZ nodes.
I just leveled a skinner and a miner/herbalist and here’s what I found:
I was able to get all five mining skillups plus the purple one by 52/100 skill. Herbalism was done around 67/100. As I tried to reach 100/100 on both, I got several of the +1 skill things for herbalism, but never saw any for mining. While this character hasn’t bought any books yet, it did run around grabbing the +3 skill treasures which might be messing up the mining catch up (assuming it exists).
If you think mining has issues though, try skinning. I leveled skinning last night from barely there to 100/100 and only got two of the five weekly skill thingies. I have yet to see the +3 purple and I spent two hours before raid on Saturday trying to farm it up on another char. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it drop.
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Just climb on the node, makes the harvest real fast and safe.
Well, not on it. If you’re standing on the node the game treats you like you’re standing away from it, you just want to be close enough to lick it.
Save your Overload for EZ Nodes, walk up, overload, mine three of the same ores and walk away.