Leveling mining

[heyaz]

I've search all over, haven't been able to find good mining macros, especially for multiboxers. I know you can /cast skinning but it does not seem to work with mining. Google turned up nothing but unanswered forum posts as well:(

My idea here is going to be something like a castsequence - first guy mines, closes loot window, second mines... up to 5th which loots.

My grand scheme is to be able to camp 5 separate zones and memorize the timing/rotations and have each toon run through and essentially monopolize whatever I'm farming. This would be done very early in the morning to eliminate competition.

[Smoooth]

Well there's hundreds of possible spawn locations and only so many are spawned at a time. You would need 1 account for each spawn spot to keep it monopolized. That's alot of accounts.

[heyaz]

Well there's hundreds of possible spawn locations and only so many are spawned at a time. You would need 1 account for each spawn spot to keep it monopolized. That's alot of accounts.don't straw man me... you know what I meant :)

[Smoooth]

How would you run/fly around in separate areas at the same time? I don't see how it could be any better than solo mining.

As for macroing it maybe you could set up a right click broadcast using different modifiers for different characters. Might work if you put them all on first person view.

[Ogloo]

Hey Smoooth ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=User&userID=13616') I believe what he is doing is that his main is not the miner, but one of the alts, and for example his main is a herb. so they can both go around herb/mine at the same time so he does not have to click over every 5 sec when he comes to a node

[heyaz]

How would you run/fly around in separate areas at the same time? I don't see how it could be any better than solo mining.

As for macroing it maybe you could set up a right click broadcast using different modifiers for different characters. Might work if you put them all on first person view.No the idea is like this.. I pick at least 3 zones containing ore that's worth a lot. On character 1, I loop around the zone and get everything. On character two, I do the same in the other zone, On character 3, same in another zone. Go back to character 1 and there should be respawns.

I'm not sure if it changed since pre-bc when I did a lot of mining, but I found given the respawn timers and the distance between the next zone with the highest spawn rate for a particular ore, that if you could only have a toon camping each spot you could make a fortune.

So anyway.. anyone know of any macros?

[Moorea]

if you're doing 1 toon at a time why would you need a macro ?
anyway, there is no macro or ways to interact with nodes or herbs (beside mouse)

[Clone]

Does the interact with mouseover key work if you zoom the camera right in? I havent actually tried it as im not at my main pc now. I guess the other problem with that would be other characters getting in the way, but if you are really averse to clicking across windows you could always bind a seperate set of movement keys for the miner character.

[heyaz]

if you're doing 1 toon at a time why would you need a macro ?
anyway, there is no macro or ways to interact with nodes or herbs (beside mouse)I'm leveling it on all 5 at the same time

thanks though, that's all I needed

[Moorea]

you said above you were doing different zones with different toons - I don't see how a macro would help that even if it worked... to be honest it started to sound more like you wanted to bot than play

[Smoooth]

I think he just wanted a macro to get a whack off from each character every node. That way they each get a skill up. After he levels it up seems like he wants to farm multiple zones 1 after another with a toon in each of them. Hopefully I am understanding it right now.

I know a few patches ago they changed mines to only allow 1 mining of them. Does this still allow different characters to get a skill up if you dont loot it?