Do you Harvest less or differently now that you have a Mount?

[Rennie.6750]

I stopped mining T5 mats with veteran mobs nearby, not worth the time spent killing that given how low prices are now. My rule is "does it take less than 2s to kill? Harvest. Does it take more? Skip, unless it's T6".

[Nikal.4921]

It depends on where I am. In the PoF zones, I harvest when there are no enemies nearby, which means I hardly ever harvest there. There is little that is worth getting into a 5 minute battle over. In Tyria, I still harvest everything. While Mithril itself is no longer worth the bother, I have a sprocket pickaxe, and the sprockets are worth it. I have managed to avoid HoT zones since PoF released, but I would harvest as usual there I think.

[Shaaba.5672]

The dismount you get from harvesting seems fluid to me and not a bother at all. If I have to kill a few mobs before I mount up again, that's fine. I would have had to kill them before I had mounts too. I do more dedicated farming runs on core maps now because it's so much easier. It's faster and terrain is less of an obstacle. That and I can breeze through mobs that normally I would have thought twice about before because jackal ...wheeeee!

[Witch of Doom.5739]

> @Ashen.2907 said:

> I harvest less, but not because of mounts.

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> The current market is such that most materials I would have gathered before are not worth the time now.

 

This is me now too. I'm harvesting only things I need for some crafting, because selling most stuff is so low-return now.

[Conncept.7638]

I harvest more simply because, since the expansion hit, and prices dropped, crafting new gear doesn't seem like a completely fruitless pursuit, which means neither does gathering mats

[LyricDawnhagen.7803]

I actually harvest more since getting my mounts. I can get around quicker so it is less time consuming to go after nodes further away from my path of travel than before. IMHO, getting on and off the mounts is trivial to the speedup I get from the mount.

[Endless Soul.5178]

I changed nothing. If I see a node in my path, I go for it no matter what it is. I still go on my regular harvesting routes during my lunchbreak.

[Ashen.2907]

> @Oglaf.1074 said:

> > @Tyncale.1629 said:

> > Mm, probably should have added a 7th option of "I am harvesting more now" . I hope those people will indeed choose option 5 (changed my tune) and post about it. It is very interesting to read how people harvest (since PoF). I guess the Mount speed is a big boon for serious harvesters.

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> For someone who only plays Warrior - a class without a runspeed signet - it is a huuuuuuuuge boon.

 

Have you considered the trait that provides a speed buff while a melee weapon is equiped?

[Just a flesh wound.3589]

About the same. I skip the nodes that are not worth gathering because of price or aggravation value (difficult to reach or cheap but guarded by a vet). It doesn’t bother me to hit the mount key. Mine is right by autorun so I can hit autorun then mount in quick sequence. I find mounts makes my harvesting much faster.

[Game of Bones.8975]

I do like the fact that I begin the harvesting mounted and don't have to dismount and then begin harvesting.

I know it's a small thing, but in the overall scheme of time spent harvesting, one second per harvesting node adds up quick.

[Electro.4173]

I don't really find it a hassle to re-mount as I've got that bound to one of my side mouse-buttons. I pretty much harvest the same as I always have.

 

I mean, I do sometimes skip more stuff in PoF maps specifically (namely Mithril) because of the aggro range, overall mob power level, and lack of ability to mount while in combat. But that's specific to PoF maps, so that's not technically a "change" to my overall harvesting habits. There are other maps in the game where I don't necessarily harvest everything I see, like some of the LS3 maps where its not always as easy to get to some of the nodes as just walking up to them.

[Taelac.7036]

My wood runs have gotten a lot faster, so I might do the longer loops more often with the mount, but nothing else has really changed for me.

[Ayumi Spender.1082]

> @Faaris.8013 said:

> > @"Ayumi Spender.1082" said:

> > I harvest the exact same.

> > If I see something that is worth my time to me, I go for it. If not, I keep on going.

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> But that has changed too. Is it worth now to stop for Mithril? I don't think so in most cases, its price has dropped from about 85 copper to 25 copper since PoF.

> You cannot earn money with it and I already have more than enough refined stuff. The price of deldrimor steel has dropped too, from about 7 gold to under 5 gold last I checked.

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> I can say I don't harvest as much as before. I used to stop for everything and walked unneccessary paths for it. I have Unbound Magic gathering tools and only got 4k Unbound Magic since PoF, that's little compared to pre-PoF times and indicates how rarely I farm now. Materials seem to come mainly from salvaging now, and many people throw their hoarded mats on the market to get the griffon. That includes myself, I sold 20 deldrimor steel ingots for 5 gold each. A week before I sold some for 7 gold. If I had better market skills, I could have got 40 gold more for my stuff. People who have thousands of gold are probably buying that stuff now, and expect that prices will rise again, while the majority sells cheap to cash in. A griffon now is better than a griffon in 2 months ^^

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> I believe it will take a few more weeks before prices bounce back, and then I will start gathering more again. I should gather mats now and hoard, but I'm just too lazy.

>

 

Mithil I still do actually as I have someone that needs a ton and it's easier to just get off the middle of the road with PoF now when I'm there, but even if I decided not to touch it at all, it's not because of the mounts and more because of the abundance of it in Elon.

[Goldrock.9076]

I harvest as usual mounts dont change anything its just a click of a key not that lazy,

[Illconceived Was Na.9781]

The wording of the poll is a bit odd, since it requires agreeing with the reason for the gameplay. It might be better to have used more neutral phrasing:

* My harvesting habits remain the same.

* I harvest as often, but I've had to change how I go about it.

* I harvest less often.

* I harvest more often.

 

Then people could post an explanation of the why or how.

 

Mounts change everything for me: the harvesting itself takes the same amount of time, my forward progress is slowed down considerably, so it's a bigger percentage delay than pre-PoF. On the other hand, when I'm specifically farming (e.g. for a daily or to visit all the rich iron nodes), then I'd be able to reach more nodes more easily in a shorter period of time.

 

In other words: less harvesting while going from A to B and probably more harvesting when farming (or, at worst, time is spent more efficiently).

[DearlyMe.5320]

Only if I'm in the air on the griffon do I ignore nodes. I don't mind the dismount/mount. But having to land, naw.

[Ayumi Spender.1082]

> @DearlyMe.5320 said:

> Only if I'm in the air on the griffon do I ignore nodes. I don't mind the dismount/mount. But having to land, naw.

 

To be fair, when you're on the Griffon, your main goal is to get to a certain point and that's about it and to hell with anything else.

[Cragga the Eighty Third.60]

When I am out harvesting, it is so much less tedious to ride and raptor-leap past the empty map areas and heavy monster populations. If anything, I am harvesting more. I am also fighting more mobs than ever before, due to the mounting restrictions. On foot, I used to completely ignore them and tank my way through, dragging feet because my pet was hanging back and fighting and slowing me down. This way is still faster, and I end up with a pack full of drops in addition to my harvested items.

[Ashantara.8731]

I accidentally picked the wrong option for me. **I harvest less in PoF regions**, due to all the crazy aggro (you can't mount again when you get aggro'd, so I often don't bother to dismount).

[Maizan.8516]

In pof zones I'm still exploring and working on story so that's my main focus there. Getting mastery points and hero points as I discover them. Switched mains and my new one is only in mid 60s map competion. So I'm pretty much focused in core maps to unlocking wps and I'll grab hero points and pois as I come across them. Havent done much gathering in either areas unless for daily gathering

[Ohoni.6057]

I do bet that at some point they will add harvesting tools that can be used from mountback.