I don’t know if any of you remember this, but remember back first when Funcom nerfed farming in the sense of animations, it was the patch the old dodge system disappeared
I remember alot of complaints about the farming feeling slow & what you could normally clear in a time frame was now doubled if not more.
I think tbh since the animation cancelling both Weapon Oils feel abit of a waste now or atleast also feel a nerf to it. But mainly the general farming by not being able to switch to my tool right as I killed a mob I want skin. Generally feels bad now, I think Funcom should look into this, because the game is having alot of heavy farming included and especially considering Skinning that you need that for alot of Armor & also need it for bombs & Steelfire etc.
the reason I was mentioning the old patch at first is because Funcom actually went back on the change & admitted they were wrong or that the players were right.
same situation it feels just as bad
I think overrall what you need to fix when it comes to animation cancelling is the offhand swapping & not the mainhand swapping
Nope but they changed the allowance for quick swapping from weapon to tool, so u cant try to stop the time on ur tool too much & it just feels slower than useally
I never liked the oils timer. Harvesting for me is more relaxing when I have time to do it not watching my tools ervery 2 seconds. Every time I have the oils on I kinda get nervous. I don´t feel relaxed anymore but rushed. I also think, that the time and the costs are not worth it using it. The same goes for black blood tools. If I don´t watch it and break it while harvesting I am done and have to go home. And I don´t like that either. So I am sticking to starmetal. I play mostly privat servers so settings are x2 or x3. And thats enough to get a lot of ressources out. I always put some starmetal and wood in my thrall and with that I can harvest as much as I can carry away without going crazy about checking my tools every minute. With starmetal in my pockets I feel very relaxed. And that is what matters most, at least to me.
O My… yeah blood pick with oil AND 3x harvest. You would be set for a while no matter what you are farming.
I never farm without oil. I personally find it way too slow. I play on official so its only 1x.
I have accumulated so many power shards to make oils I don’t even worry about the timer half the time. I try to be mindful that the timer is precious but I normally have 10 oils with me at all times.
I know, but Hel said black blood is out of the picture. My personal preference for serious farming is to carry one black blood with advanced upgrade and one black blood with oil. That way I use oil on node clusters (i.e. places where you can hit 3+ nodes with one swing) and the other tool on the rest of the nodes.
This is whete we get the player is not as hard as he meant to be.
We (the pvp official players) farms with the better tools we have at the moment.
Obsidian has the same harvest Power as Black blood, without the +5 survival.
Farming fragments of Power before farming anything else isn’t optimal, but if you are farming legendary weapons/recipes and stacks fragments, it’s ok to use them to farm.
Btw. When we (hard pvp players) start on a server, we tend to be as optimal as possible.
Quick swapping no matter the tool/weapon has almost killed me a few times. There is a hard delay between the mashing of button and it highlighting to be used since the 2.4 patch.
Oil gives you +9 harvest Power.
For example: a starmetal pickaxe has 11 harvest power.
If you put advanced upgrade on it, it reaches 14 harvest Power (+3).
With survival 30 you Will farm 28.
Using bounty oil: harvest power reaches 20, which means 40 in the end.
