i agree with you @NewWorldPlayer2 and @Unai . bots are a problem, i can confirm from my own experience, i’ve been farming ori for months. however, bots alone are not the entire problem. there is a severe low number of ori nodes and the respawn time is too high as you mentioned…
also, i don’t want to spend more time killing mobs than gathering. the activity is gathering not killing…
other tier 5 resources lie wirefiber, are reasonably easy because there’s a lot more nodes and in reasonably easy fields.
ori there’s only a few spots with 6+ nodes and they are too far apart.
in reekwater, south, there’s a spot with 7 nodes. 2 of the nodes are too close to each other and bots stand between both and gather. we can’t pull mobs because they lose aggro just a few feet away from that spot. it’s a golden spot for bots.
another bot safe spot is in the ship in the air (restless shore north). we can pull mobs from outside but often then bots can kill them.
there’s also another spot in edengrove south with 8 nodes.
apart from that, the majority of ori nodes are up north in lv60+ elite areas. it is clear that AGS intends on making ori difficult to acquire but it needs to change.
in my opinion, we need 2 things: 1) ban bots quickly after being report (validate and ban), 2) add more ori nodes in lv40-60 non-elite areas.
by banning bots, the ori cost will increase way more and the average lv60 needs to be able to solo gather ori. i’ve reported the same bot a few months ago and today when i returned to farm ori he was there for 8 hours.
today, i spent 10 hours straight gathering ori in RW and i’m so depressed that i’m considering quitting the game. it feels like such a waste of time; low return for time invested.
during the 10 hours, other players joined for about 3 hours and during another 8 hours there was a bot monopolizing 2 nodes (no chance of gathering faster than a script; only happened once and i saw him attempting to pickaxe it; bot). this competition lowers gathering for players. competition is fine but you need a reasonable amount of nodes like wirefiber… if an area is busy move to another area, but currently, there aren’t many areas to pick and they are all contested.
during 10 hours i got:
-3,600 ori ore
-165 ori ore/round MAX (if i’m alone; does not happen often)
-360 ori/hr on average
-average small ori node respawn 25min (6 small nodes and 1 medium node)
when i did this same farming a couple of months ago the respawn was quicker and i was getting about 600 ore per hour with similar players joining and that same bot.
i keep track of the number of minutes since the last time i pickup each node. today, many of the small nodes would take 30 minutes to respawn but sometimes 15-25. this is a change from few months ago where they used to take about 15-20 minutes.
i understand that they are on a random number of minutes but i did this for 10 hours straight!
before jumping to conclusions, no, i do not farm 3,600 ori per day… i do this when i need to level up skills and for the asmo CDs. i don’t gather to resell because it is absolute torcher and i’d rather do something else with my time.
please, please add more ori nodes so that it can be fun to gather.
there are soany threads about this exact topic where some suggest forcing PvP, which would make me quit the game… i personally prefer more nodes in nnon-60+ elite areas and/or allowing all nodes to be gathered once per day and then afterwards going back to the current random spawn.
on a side note, i’m convinced that the “yield” perk on my tools does not work. there is no way i’m getting an additional 19% resources… i compared a pickaxes without yield and the results are about the same after a few hours of gathering.
