3 mages or 2 mages 1 priest for dps team

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Gathering probly wouldn't work as you can only gather from one node on one toon right?

Gathering is fine. I'm not sure why only being able to do it from one character would mean it's not worth doing. During my testing on live and during the stress test I did mining and herbalism on two distinct characters. Mining was on my master and herbalism was on one of the slaves. Obviously I can see my master's mini map whenever I'm driving from him. The hardest part was setting up VFX so that I could see my herbalism slave's minimap on my master. That took about five minutes to set up, a little longer if you start from no knowledge of VFX.

From there it was almost as easy as doing gathering on one toon. The only exception was flipping to the herbalism slave when I saw a node, setting the party to follow him, and go collect the node.

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... Gathering probly wouldn't work as you can only gather from one node on one toon right? ...

Gathering is fine. I'm not sure why only being able to do it from one character would mean it's not worth doing. During my testing on live and during the stress test I did mining and herbalism on two distinct characters. Mining was on my master and herbalism was on one of the slaves. Obviously I can see my master's mini map whenever I'm driving from him. The hardest part was setting up VFX so that I could see my herbalism slave's minimap on my master. That took about five minutes to set up, a little longer if you start from no knowledge of VFX.

From there it was almost as easy as doing gathering on one toon. The only exception was flipping to the herbalism slave when I saw a node, setting the party to follow him, and go collect the node.

Overall my thoughts exactly!

My only respectful recommendation is to consider running Skinning on your main Foreground as you will be skinning a lot more than you will be gathering, mining, or finding chests. In my case I plan to have Skinning on my main Warrior that I plan to drive with and then I will VFX in the following mini-maps into my "Heads Up Display" HUD:

• - Gathering Mini-map (then switch to my gatherer when close);
• - Minining Mini-map (then switch to my miner when close);
• - Treasure Hunting Mini-map (then switch if needed when close);
• - Undead Mini-map (likely no need to switch when close);

Similarly I would source in any Hunter mini maps if I had hunters in the party...