Editing (section) Harvesting 0 You are not logged in. == Harvesting Styles: "Cherry Picking" == The first style is sometimes referred to as "Cherry Picking". This is the approach where you enter a zone looking for one particular type of resource, and you seek exclusively for nodes of that appropriate type, ignoring all other types of nodes. Biasing towards this approach has some important advantages: - If you only need a very small number of resources, and there are nodes there of the type you need, this is clearly the best choice, as you can gather what you need in a few minutes and be on your way. - If you need more resources, and there are other harvesters in the same general area, but they are already cherry picking and are looking for different node types than you need. This is an ideal win-win situation if it happens. - If there is heavy competition for the same type of node you need, but the other harvester(s) are clear cutting (see below), then you can gain a competitive advantage to gain the resources you need by cherry picking that node type, at least to some extent, and perhaps gather what you need sooner than you might otherwise. It does have one major disadvantage: - In the lower tier zones (tiers 1-5), when a harvested node respawns, it does so as a node of a random type. This means that if you are in an area harvesting exclusively one or two types of node, then when nodes do respawn, some of them will respawn as other node types. Fairly quickly the population of the node type(s) you want will falls and the area will have increasing numbers of nodes of types you do not want. This eventually ends up with the "fields of bushes" scenario, where almost all nodes are of one (undesirable) type. Bushes are often being the least desirable node type, in some tiers. This then makes finding the resource you actually want a lot more time-consuming! It is precisely because of this "field of bushes" problem that the Clear Cutting technique can be preferable for long harvesting sessions. The cherry picking approach is probably the most commonly adopted, especially by an opportunist harvester, someone just harvesting for ten minutes, or someone who wants to spend as little time doing it as possible. Loading editor screenshots General: {{ss-g}} · NPC: {{ss-n}} · monster: {{ss-m}} examines general/unknown: {{ss-e}} · equipment: {{ss-ee}} · item: {{ss-ei}} · spell/aa: {{ss-es}} visuals placed house item: {{ss-h}} · worn weapon/armor: {{ss-a}} other {{update}} · {{soga}} Quests: {{Quest||}} Zones: {{Zone||}} · {{Instance||}} · {{POI|}} · Mobs: {{Monster||}} · {{Named||}} · {{NPC||}} Items: {{Equip|}} · {{Item|}} Misc: {{Spell|||}} · {{Loc||||uid=}} · {{Faction||amount|Quest}} · {{Coin||||||}} Wiki Basics: [] · [[]] · {{}} · – — · Characters: “” ‘’ «» ‹› „“ ‚‘ · ~ | ° · · × ² ³ ½ € † Common Wikicode: [[Category:]] · [[Image:]] · #REDIRECT[[]] {{disambig}} {{dab|}} Obtain Templates: {{QuestReward|questName|zoneName}} · {{CQuestReward|questName}} · {{DroppedItem|mobName|altMobName|zoneName|chestType}} · {{CraftedItem|artisanClass|artisanLevel|recipeBook}} · {{VendorItem|vendorType|vendorName|vendorZone}} · {{LoNLoot}} Attention Needed: {{stub}} · {{wikify}} · {{AdminNeeded|}} · {{delete|}} {{disambig}} · {{RfG|}} Errors: {{CapCheck|}} · {{CapOK|}} · {{FactCheck|}} · {{FactOK|}} {{RoK}} · {{LU}} · {{LU|LU}} Credits: {{zam|zoneid=|questid=|mobid=|itemid=|info=}} · {{SOEforums|author=|thread=}} · {{Athen}} · {{LootDB|URL}} · {{MIC|URL|what_we_took}} · {{UserCredit||toonName|guildName|serverName}} · {{Eq2u|itemid=|info=}} Wikicode: · · · TOC and EDIT: __TOC__ · __NOTOC__ · __FORECETOC__ · __NOEDITSECTION__ Flow Control: {{#if: + · {{#ifeq: + · {{#ifexist: + · {{#switch: cond|value=output|default}} · This field is a spam trap. DO NOT fill it in! Edit summary Preview Mobile Desktop Show changes
