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I'm not much into grinding skills, but there are times when I only have 45 minutes to play, so look to perform tasks that'll help me and my PA at night when I'm on at peak time. I'll craft camps and traps, sample for resources for traps (polymer for Adhesive Mesh for example) and all the while work on Camping.

For pure grind purposes though, I've heard two different approaches. One is for Active play and the other is Passive (or AFK).

Craft 24 camping kits and fill an entire Toolbar pane with it. Know that toolbar Slot #1 is actually considered slot 00, and that slot 24 (which you hit with Shift-F12), is actually slot 23.

Also know that a camp will automatically go away at 51 minutes, granting XP to the player if they're in it (or 3060 seconds)

Pick an activity: Dance/Music Flourish or Sample

Write a macro like this (example: Flourish)

• /flourish 3; /flourish 4; /pause 8;


• /flourish 3; /flourish 4; /pause 8;


• /flourish 3; /flourish 4; /pause 8;


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• /flourish 3; /flourish 4; /pause 8; (as many time as you can do this until you're out of Action points)


• /sit;


• /pause 300; (or as long as you need to regenerate Action pool to full)


• /stand

Note: /sampling gets interrupted by the dialog window that asks if you want to go to some new concentration you've found. Reports from August said that /sit and /stand ignored this window and that /stand; /pause 8; /sample would let you get back to macroing even if the window is waiting for your input. But it's been two months since I've read anything about it.

• /ui action toolbarSlot00; /pause 3200;


• /ui action toolbarSlot01; /pause 3200;


• /ui action toolbarSlot02; /pause 3200;


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• /ui action toolbarSlot23; /pause 3200;

I recommend 3200 seconds just to be on the safe side.

The idea is you just hit this macro, it'll place a camp which you put into one of the toolbar slots, and wait for 53 minutes before trying to place a new one. At the 51 minute mark, the camp goes away. This, too, is not something I've kept up with in awhile though, so it's possible that this has been changed.