Bitttymacod
I congratulate you on your persistence and skill, Aeralin. I have the persistence (if not the skill); I managed to level to my current level (157) pretty much solo as well, in GoO and near tp's in other places. I found PR far more dangerous than above ground when it was just the "normal" aggro. There are very few places that are "peaceful" and the "weather" dependence means that a lot of the time you aren't digging at all, just keeping an eye out while you wait. "Some things are meant to be difficult," is a good thing, but there are degrees of difficulty which are beyond the coping ability of most people. "Difficult" should not mean "nigh impossible" (imho).
"The trick is to..." Absolutely agree.
So how do you "bring friends in" when your friends pretty much have their own agendas and schedules or if you don't have friends (the former is my case; the latter might be the case of some returnees and relatively new folk)? How do you find "the location you want to dig in" when you are being continually hounded by KP? I know a lot of people use alts, but for me and for many others alts are not an option.
I have the KP detection macro, I know how to track mats, I just can't get past the aggro and the dp. There's no advancement if you're digging off dp. The point that some of us are making is that the current case in PR gives an immense advantage to large guilds and even people in those are pointing out that getting drygulched again and again by KP while trying to get a boss gets tired.
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When I leveled my PR dig, I was leading Inflatable Friends, a guild with only 5 members at the time. I foraged completely solo, and this was long before I started actively using an alt. It was my singular toon. Before I'd set out to go digging, I put on my HA, geared myself for the max HP I could possibly have, and then ran into PR. I scouted the location of any given material I needed, based on their locations from the maps already in existance. I employed every skill available, and often ran out of Panic Buttons (MPA, Speed, Invul). Once I'd gotten to a location alive, I figured out a route around aggro, thru difficult places, and dug in corners of PR (in LoC, SC and FD) that are rarely touched by other hominkind. I died more times that I care to remember, but ulimately, I found ways to the places I needed to go. I always chose locations that were rarely bothered by the KP as well. It is possible. Yes, I sat through weather (with my trusty novel at my side). Yes, I sat thru the random KP threat, and always had places to hide from them when needed.
The point I make is that if you really want it, you can dig in PR without issue. Whether you have the dedication I did, to go where others won't and do things others don't, in effort to get the materials you need, that's entirely up to you. :)