To expand on what Eruv said, there is no "best" method of digging. What method you choose depends on what you do, what you have done and how you play. For example:
1. If you have done the Time Bonus rite, this changes things.
2. If you are wearing boosted gear (165 focus, boosted pick, buff rites) this changes things.
3. If you are focused and attentive or of you are a chatterbox or you tab out to read web pages or forums, this changes things.
I will note in contrast that "back in the day" when team digging was the norm, we definitely would note that KT dropped faster when we were going all out not worrying about killing red and yellow bars. In Dyron, peeps wud step over ya dead bod if you were either digging in area way above ya level or repeatedly blowing up.
Dunno if still true as rarely more than 2 peeps digging anywhere. One thing I still see tho, is that if I let my red / orange bars die often for long time in a single area, the nodes seem to deplete faster & the smaller the no. of mats in each node.
1. If you have done the Time Bonus rite, this changes things.
2. If you are wearing boosted gear (165 focus, boosted pick, buff rites) this changes things.
3. If you are focused and attentive or of you are a chatterbox or you tab out to read web pages or forums, this changes things.
I will note in contrast that "back in the day" when team digging was the norm, we definitely would note that KT dropped faster when we were going all out not worrying about killing red and yellow bars. In Dyron, peeps wud step over ya dead bod if you were either digging in area way above ya level or repeatedly blowing up.
Dunno if still true as rarely more than 2 peeps digging anywhere. One thing I still see tho, is that if I let my red / orange bars die often for long time in a single area, the nodes seem to deplete faster & the smaller the no. of mats in each node.
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