Slightly faster milling / prospecting

[Galithiel]

Hey,

I'm creating Fortune Cards all day and I have to mill a lot of plants, and during the process I found a little trick (not an exploit but not a guide either...) for make it slightly faster.

1 - Turn on autoloot (obvious),
2 - Create a macro to mill your plants :

/cast Milling
/use Plant name
/use 2nd Plant name
/use ...

3 - Open an UI window that won't be closed by the loot window (e.g. Escape menu) <== Here's the trick
4 - Start using your macro

If you don't do the third step, the loot window will display, and it will take a bit more time to collect the result of your milling / prospecting, and it can also sometimes stay stucked on the loot window, like if autoloot was not enabled.

This is really a small time gain, but if you're milling a big amount of plants, you'll definitly save some time.

Hope you enjoyed it ^^

[Alfalfa]

That's great. I was precasting some profession skills and was able to ignore the loot window sometimes but this will help more. +2 rep

[Andy666]

thanks for the sharing

[Augury13]

already posted this on prospecting :/ http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/worl...kest-time.html (Prospecting Macros for quickest time) so repost.

[iispyderii]

I'm not really seeing what's so much fast about it than the way I do it.

I learned this: there's a small window of opportunity after the end of the cast and before the loot window opens to Mill/Prospect/DE again. If you get the timing right you can go twice as fast. You know you did it right if you start to mill again while you are looting.

[Galithiel]

I'm not really seeing what's so much fast about it than the way I do it.

1 - You don't have to wait for the loots to be taken
2 - The loot window never gets stuck.

[Cecu]

I'm not really seeing what's so much fast about it than the way I do it.

I learned this: there's a small window of opportunity after the end of the cast and before the loot window opens to Mill/Prospect/DE again. If you get the timing right you can go twice as fast. You know you did it right if you start to mill again while you are looting.

As iispyderii said, the most effective way of speeding up milling/prospecting/disenchanting is by timing it right, and do chain mill, so just when you are about to finish your previous milling cast, you are querying a next cast to the server, so it start milling another pack of herbs, while the loot window is open. If the window disappear before the cast is done, and you time it right, you can chain another milling cast etc.

From my experience, setting any auto-clicker to 1250-1350 ms for milling is fine (My latency to the home server is usually ~50 ms), and the most of mills are chain ones, so it speeds fast enough!

I use the 2250-2350 ms range for prospecting, and having almost every 2nd cast as chain too, here the looting part is longer, since you need to loot 4-5 items sometimes, and this usually breaks the chain, but with common looting of 2-3 items its generally chained.

[turnagewe]

You know you did it right if you start to mill again while you are looting.

[Galithiel]

You know you did it right if you start to mill again while you are looting.

No, it will most likekly cancel the 2nd milling process