Gathering Profile Tutorial

[Ohren 106]

THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS, PLEASE DO NOT

CRITICIZE IT UNTIL I AM FINISHED

(Thanks :))

 

 

I believe there are 3 main things that go into building an awesome gathering profile..

 

1. Pathing
2. Blacklisting
3. A crapton more blacklisting

So let's start with the pathing, this is a hella important part of building a good gathering profile. I feel that a perfect path means much more farms/hour and TONS less stucks (which reduces the chances of that snitch going to a GM). Personally, when I am doing my pathing I start out on http://www.wowhead.com. What are we gathering? I suppose today we will be gathering Lichbloom (http://www.wowhead.com/item=36905). The only reason for farming Lichbloom is because it is constantly going for ridiculous amounts of gold on my server, and since I am your tour guide on this tutorial, you're required to follow along. So which place do you think will have the most nodes compacted together for faster gathering? There really isn't a good way to tell the difference just from the wowhead map. I've already tested both of these zones out before, and Icecrown is (slightly) better since it's a bit more... flat. So let's get on our mount and fly out there...

 

But first, let's get some addons to make our life so much easier, it's going to seem like I am completely overloading your CPU with addons for this, but they are all low resource consuming and..... they rock my face off.

 

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/gathermate2 GatherMate2 is actually quite annoying when it's used for it's original purpose, just clogs up your map with bright rings, but TRUST ME!!!

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/gathermate2_data This just contains all the data for GatherMate2 to use.

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/routes Routes is an AMAZING addon for creating paths. Matter of fact, this addon is SO AMAZING, that it's worth putting up with GatherMate2 while building profiles.

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/tomtom If you don't already have TomTom installed, you already won the game, go play Viva Pinata.

 

So now that you are prepared to get prepared, let's quick do some adjustments to these addons.

 

GatherMate2: Alright, I personally despise this addon, it just spams my mini-map.

Step 1: Type "/gathermate" to bring up the options window.

Step 2 (OPTIONAL): You will have a window loaded that has a bunch of "Show Spam Nodes" (doesn't actually say spam, but like mining and herbalism and such). I set every one of these to "Never show".

Step 3: Head to the "Import" section (link is on the left). The selections I make are...

 

 

As long as you do NOT have Expansion Data Only checked, this will import everything from Classic up to MoP. AND BAM! You're done with GatherMate2.

 

Routes: My favorite addon in the world. For sure.

Step 1: Fly to where you are planning on creating this profile at. I have 310% flight speed so I am already waiting for you there.

Step 2: Type "/routes". This will bring up the routes menu.

Step 3: Click "Map Drawing" in the left navigation bar and check "Minimap when indoors".

Step 4: Click "Add" in the left navigation bar. Give your profile a cute name, like OhrenRoxxors or something like that. Press the Okay bottom.

Step 5: Since what I plan on farming (Lichbloom) is spread ALL over the map, and Saronite(60g/stack)/Titanium(100-200g/stack) are going to be mixed right in there, I decided to add those in there too.

Step 6: Click the BOTTOM "Create Route" button, click the (tiny) red square with the "+" in it that is located to the right of Routes, then the same little square for whichever zone you are building this profile for. Choose the route you just creates.

Step 7: Click the "Optimize Route" tab in the top right. The top line tells me that this route is 499,211 yards long and has 1,457 nodes to visit, that's a ton of flying, so we need to cluster the route. Normally, a good Cluster Radius is 50-60, but since we have robot-like eyes, I usually go 65-70 yards. Click the Cluster button. NOTE: This will cause your client to lock up, that's normal. It took my client about 10 seconds to free up, I remember on my old (crappy) Dell it taking upwards of 5 minutes. Don't exit out, it will come around. And bam! Just like that I reduced our route down 361,016 yards and 1,208, yet we will be traveling over all but about 8 of the total nodes in the area.

Step 37 I think: Route Optimizing is optional, it usually doesn't save you very much travel time on your route. I only use it for profiles I plan on releasing or using a LOT.

Step 38: This has always reminded me of those choose your own adventure books, not sure why. You have to choose "Foreground" or "Background". There is pros and cons to each one, but I think if your computer has >= 6gb of memory, you should choose foreground. On my laptop it did 6 iterations in about 30 seconds, reducing the total length of the path to 44,448 yards.

 

Go to your map, it should look something like this.

[Aleatha 7]

Adding mailbox ?

impossible to add to the list in the profile creator !

help

[Shadow 100]

please refer to the rules of the forum and search, this has been covered multiple times

 

[Ohren 106]

Hey Shadow, can you completely remove this post. I forgot about it a while back, and I must have removed the screen shots from my server.