taultunleashed

You can use a macro to autotarget the closest harvesting node that you are looking for. It's quite easy to do. I've got mine setup for lumberjacking and quarrying, but you can do them for any.

All you have to do is setup a text only macro (right click any of the boxes on the bottom row and it will bring up the window) In this window all you have to do is give the button a title (for myself i use the type of node i'm looking for, wood in this case; and the tier of that node, tier 2 in this case)
I'll name it lumber T2. In the box you put 3 lines of text, one for each type of node in that tier (common, uncommon, rare). For tier 2 lumber they are as follows: barbed, thorn, bristle. The text for the command is very easy. The text in the box for my tier 2 lumber macro would be as follows:

/target barbed
/target thorn
/target bristle




It's very easy to setup, and very useful when you are harvesting. The command will target the closest node to you, but if you have an uncommon or rare that is farther away from the closest common node, it will target those since they are after the inital /target command. And since the uncommon and rares are always better to have you'll want to grab those even if you can't use them at that time.

Here is the list that i've taken from vanguard crafters (very good site) of all the node names from each tier and each type:

Textile/Reaping-----Common----------Rare-------------Ultra-Rare
Tier 1-------------------Jute
Tier 2------------------Cotton-------Mature Cotton------Prime Cotton
Tier 3-----------------Firegrass----Mature Firegrass----Prime Firegrass
Tier 4-----------------Silkbloom---Mature Silkbloom----Prime Silkbloom
Tier 5-----------------veilthread
Tier 6


Stone/Quarrying------Common---------Rare--------Ultra-Rare
Tier 1--------------------Basalt
Tier 2--------------------Slate----------Gneiss--------Snakestone
Tier 3------------------Sandstone-----Soapstone-----Alabaster
Tier 4------------------Limestone------Travertine------Marble
Tier 5
Tier 6


Gem/Quarrying--------Common----------Rare-------Ultra-Rare
Tier 1--------------------Quartz
Tier 2--------------------Garnet--------Carnelian-------Citrine
Tier 3-------------------Amethyst------Moonstone-----Soulstone
Tier 4----------------------Jade-------------------------Peridot
Tier 5
Tier 6


Leather/Skinning------Common---------Rare--------Ultra-Rare
Tier 1-------------------Mangled
Tier 2---------------------Ratty---------Scraggy---------Worn
Tier 3----------------------Stiff------------Hard-----------Firm
Tier 4--------------------Coarse---------Rough
Tier 5------------------Weathered
Tier 6


Wood/Lumberjacking----Common-------Rare---------Ultra-Rare
Tier 1---------------------Weakened
Tier 2-----------------------Barbed-------Thorn----------Bristle
Tier 3-------------------------Dry----------Arid---------Desiccated
Tier 4-----------------------Knotted-----Warped---------Gnarled
Tier 5------------------------------------------------------Obsidian
Tier 6


Metal/Mining---------Common----------Rare----------Ultra-Rare
Tier 1------------------Copper
Tier 2--------------------Tin-------------Nickle----------Zorinite
Tier 3-------------------Iron-----------Star Iron-------Black Iron
Tier 4-------------------Pyrite--------Embersteel------Sunflame
Tier 5
Tier 6

Awesome, thank you

Nice work.

Thank you, very useful.

there is also one bug i have found with this, /target does not always pick the closest object.

nice 300 to you and moved to confirmed

question. i capped mining from copper a while ago at a little over 100.
ive found a few tins but mining them doesnt seem to skill me up any further.
would you happen to know what the cap of tins can be?

this macro don't work for me

but with

/targetauto blablabla

in the chat, it's ok....

sandwhale, you need to get skill book if you haven't already to increase your cap.

thanks gamejack.

eventually got my mining skill up to 230. its going reallllllly slow now mining iron. getting skill up like once every 10 iron nodes. wondering if this is normal. 3 hours I got 10 skill. this is going to take a while to hit the next tire.

it's work for u ?

been mining manually with CE speed. didn't try the macro.

sandwhale wrote:been mining manually with CE speed. didn't try the macro.

What settings you have on for CE? Mine crashes after the launcher with typical settings used on other games.

? I never changed any settings on CE. I'm using 5.3, all I do is run it up, point to VGclient.exe and tick enable speed hack.

The macro works perfectly for me, it shows nodes up to 200 far and behind rocks, what would be perfect now is a hint how to combine it with the left-right movement key. I am using arrow left, arrow right to move left right. Would be super if there is a solution to add this macro to those keys.
It used to work in EQ with forage, but seems i am getting old and not that smart anymore to get it working.
Thanks if anyone could provide a hint.