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All I was going to add was the thing about mining with friends, but I guess so long as the first person doesn't loot completely and that works, I'm cool with it. :) I have a warrior friend who's leveling with my little dwarf hunter--he's BS and I'm engineering, and it will probably work out okay if he grabs the ore and I get the rocks.

I still think mining would be more awesome if it worked the way digging for treasure does in Pokemon though.

perhaps I'm just a mean person but this opens up tactically leaving a crystal earth so the node still appears for the competition. Will make the basin interesting :)

Definately pure win.

I was always shocked that some people would be so rude/out of touch with other players, that they'd actually come up and start mining a node that you're already mining.

Sure you can hold SHIFT and not loot the ore while they sit there trying to ninja you, but I think this is generally a better way.


Good change.

Being both anti social and greedy, this is good news to me.

As much as I can see this being good for most poeple, it sucks for me.

I duo with a friend and we both have mining-dependent crafts and we would share nodes that we came across. Mostly so that we would skill up at an equal rate. Now that's out the window.

/sigh

Hooray!

I can shift+click my nodes in peace rather than just click and snarl at the latecomer to my node...

I'm torn tbh. My initial thought was, great!!! Less time at each node = more ore per hours of mining, although i see mining as a relaxing break from killing :}

The Supply will definitely grow though, more miners will be out there as it'll be less time consuming, i really only use mining as a way of earning money (selling titansteel bars etc), occasionally i send a couple of stacks of Saronite to my ALT JC to prospect.

Ultimately i will be worse off, maybe some miners will switch to BS or Eng if the bars come down in price a lot.

Well, yes and no. As it is now nodes disappear a set time after being mined, even if you get just one mine off. The timer on that is usually too long to be annoying, but I have actually lost two or three veins because mobs KEPT coming after I got one mine off.

"Mining veins and deposits no longer require multiple hits to receive all the ore. Players will receive around the same amount of ore, stone, and gems they would have received from multiple hits."

Why doesn't this just say the same amount?

Because that would've made Mining OP, that's why. :)

Edited, Jan 8th 2009 12:10pm by tfwagner

Isn't that a good thing?

yes i agree this is great for some people..(1) Gold farmers...(2) epic flying mount people..the non epic mount people will be getting ripped.

(Had to make this reference cause I love the movie)

"Healthy Choice and Steamwheedle Airlines got together and put this promotion: If you buy any 10 Healthy Choice products, they will reward you with 500 frequent flier miles; with this special coupon, they'll up it to 1,000 miles. So, I think they are trying to push their Roasted Quail, which is 40 silver, but I went to the Northrend and I looked around and I saw that they had pudding... For 25 copper a cup... Comes in packages of four. But, insanely, the barcodes are on the individual cups! So, quarter a cup, say you bought 2s 50c worth. That's worth 500... With the coupon it's 1,000 miles. It's a marketing mistake but I'm taking advantage of it. If you were to spend 3,000 gold, that would get you a million frequent flier miles. You would never have to pay for a gryphon ride the rest of your life."

(edit: And, yeah, I'm stoked about this upcoming change since I'm a miner)

Edited, Jan 9th 2009 1:47pm by Smallsword