50M Deposit Tracking

[kovah]

I've had trouble with this skill as far as it telling me that a deposit was 50m, I run to 1m "end prospection" turn in cricles with 10m range/40 deg. angle and be told that "you found nothing" after doing a couple 360's(and yes, i tried stepping back to make sure that I wasn't standing on top of it). I reported it as a bug and the GM that showed up (Mandadar) told me that you don't always find what you are prospecting for on the first try in the same direction, sometimes you have to prospect multiple times in the same direction using the same prospection to find a source. So make sure you have plenty of focus or just use basic prospection a few times in each direction and when it says "resources detected but were too hard to find using your current action" switch to a higher prospection. I still think this is kind of weird cause when I do actually find a source I have never had it all of a sudden tell me "you found nothing" when I've been harvesting the same spot over and over. /me shrugs.

[splatula]

Later on you can mix tracking with, find only excellent and supreme... and at those levels I don't care what the mat is. Usually I know the area anyhow and I can tune it from 50M to 500m depending on if I am in an unfamiliar teritory or I know there are good materials around there.

[blogie]

it would be nice if they put a pointer on the compas so its easy to run in the right direction

[vutescu]

The deposit tracking is the most useless skill I ever find.
I spend a lot of sp getting some idiotic skills hoping I can use them in conjuntion with the deposit tracking skill. Well, is not working.
It counts depleted nodes, give me fake indiactions, I look for choice and find basic... and so on. DO NOT - I repeat - DO NOT spend skill points for this skill.
I've reported the bad function to a gm when I was in n00b island... (Raya was the name) She told me that I have to go on mainland and learn more to have this skill working. Well, after I spend a lot of time just checking this specific skill, I can come and tell you is not worth not even 1 skill point.
Btw, I'm 98 harvest, so dont come to tell me I have to level even more. I'd rather use maps from sites, ask friends about mat fields, or use my 60 degrees/20m range prospect to map my own areas than spending even a single skill point for useless skills.

Rjak

[dakhound]

The deposit tracking is the most useless skill I ever find.
I spend a lot of sp getting some idiotic skills hoping I can use them in conjuntion with the deposit tracking skill. Well, is not working.

while there are problems with the tracking skill and I wont deny it, it is far from a useless skill, I have mine up to 200m and I regularly take trips around the dunes of excile and around thesos tracking excellent mats. I've used it a few times and come up with nothing but I'd say 80% of the time it leads me to an excellent node.

now whether the node is in season/weather/time of day is a different thing entirely but I mark them and check back another time.

tracking for less than excellent is useless really due to the sheer quatites of nodes around, you can get led into any direction. my adivce for you (will do it if you on my server) would be to get a kind digger to give you a little tour and show you spots for all the main materials classes, then when you see another n00b harvester do it for them to return the favour.

[caitiff]

I have the max tracking distance (i believe 400M) and up to prospection for excellent mats only. I have all the light armor mat specifications. I have used it only a couple times (because i havent had a need to atm cause i know where most is I need to craft) and it has worked fine for me. I tracked excellent fiber and when I went there I found it. My first prospection in the spot did not find anything (my prospection has the mat specification on as well for excellent only). I continued to turn and prospect in a circle, nothing. OK so i took multiple steps back, put on max angle and max distance for my prospection and bam, there was my excellent fiber. It just takes some lookin around once you actually get there

Also, 50m tracking is worthless imo. If you are searching that close to you only then you either a) already know it is there b) hoping for something to be that close when you have no clue, instead just prospect.

[glipe]

I'm going to put in a suggestion for a stanza that will rule out mission mats from a tracking prospect. This would save a lot of time and frustration.

[babylon5]

My experiences with deposite tracking:

The 50M version is really not worth using. At those levels you need the SPs for much important stanzas. The range of the first trackings isn't really helpfull.

Later on Deposit Tracking can be very handy, if you go out to find new spots.
Then it is good to track down deposits
a) of a certain qualitiy (excellent/supreme would come to mind)
b) of a certain material (you also need this stanzas to prospect spezific mats)
c) of a+b together (most likely)

Since one shouldn't need to track the same deposit again, you can of course live without any tracking at all, once the spot is known. If you get that info anyway - and spezific that spot you are looking for8) - you are fine.

greetings,
Talia

[vutescu]

As long as the game is already "team based", most of the skills was designed for team work... why bother? The knowledge is already there, others already spended a lot of time and effort to track down the mats.

When you join in a decent guild you have just to ask. As long as guild members are taking care each other, one of the vets will escort you to the mats field and show you the specific location of mats. Is that easy.

Later in the game when you will have enough skill points to spend and get bored of monotonus harvesting action you will sure try to mess around with different stanzas, and you will sure try the deposit tracking thingie. But just for fun, not for finding something, coz you will have your personal resource map stored on your comp or in your head.

Note: this advice is for the ones who wants to level fast, in relatively safe conditions and dont mind grinding for hours in the same spot. If you are into exploration... you will sure have more fun than me or others, but when someone will ask you: "where is the choice seeds mats location in thesos" you will stagger around for 10-15 mins instead of going stright to the hill.