As a player of two months and a frequent gatherer I frequently run into the staple“you NEED to gather in Black Zones or Ava roads”. Now, having grinded to T8 skinning and T8 fishing i’m trying to maximize my silver and find out frankly the best bang for my buck while playing the game. What i’ve found, through probably over 30-40 hours of skinning in T5 Bzs, is that earning 1-1.4 million per hour is the norm. Fishing, my most recent T8 skill, earns usually a bit more in T6 yellow zones.
Now, every once in a while I do a foray into the BZ to test how much i’ll make per hour and what I’ve found is that silver is muchhh less guaranteed. Less nodes, nodes that are half or all the way consumed, and of course the odd ganker who chases me around the map for 5 minutes for no foreseeable reason other than to waste my time. Yesterday I did happen to pull a medium chest with about 4 million in in but that’s only happened once and I really don’t see where the profit is. T8 fishing in Ava Roads or mists could probably make me much more silver but accounting for lost sets and time wasted due to dying I still don’t know if it would edge out the BZ or YZ fishing.
What do you all think? Is BZ gathering truly that much more silver and is it really viable solo. Would love to hear what you think and what you can maybe show me in missing 😉.