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Hi all.
Went through the great FAQs and Guides that Brisc has put together and they've helped me tremedously.

However, I am at a bit of an impasse with these two questions.

1. I'm out a lot trying to harvest avian meat. The current spawn of Avian Meat on Yavin4 on Bloodfin is pretty good. So I end up taking a number of Whisper Bird missions.

The good thing is that many of them spawn when you tap the layer.

The bad thing is that many of them spawn when you tap the layer.

Because they are pretty easy kills and realtively large, the resulting carnage falls all around me - heaped one on top of the other.

Using one of the macros discussed on the stickied FAQs, I can quickly harvest the meat. But I always get the sneaking suspicion that I've missed one or two harvest opportunities because they are difficult to target when the corpses are so closely stacked.

Is there any way to target the corpses to harvest beyond just mousing over them and clicking one when the position of the text changes? (When they're still alive, I frequently tab between targets, but this does not work on corpses. Is there something like Corpse Tabbing?)

2. In a similar vein, I was thinking I could use a droid to harvest the meat. What I don't know about the droid option is:

A. Will the droid automatically go from corpse to corpse to harvest? (Which would solve question #1) Or do you need to target each corpse and tell the droid to harvest it?

B. Which provides a better amount of meat harvest? A Harvest Droid or Yourself on Veghash?

C. Are the droid's harvest abilities increased if you are using Veghash? (Logically, I assume not, so maybe a silly question).

Thanks for your help guys.

Andst
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there is a way to tab through thr corpses but i cant renenber how i know that doesnt really help but for question 2 droid doesnt automaticly go to the corpes you have to tell it to but it can harv while you are in combat so once one drops dead and you still have it selected you tell it to harv that one and then tab to the next and fight that one and veghash does stack with the droid because the droid bonus is determined by your ability to harvest and the veghash increases that.

There is a way to target corpses,it has to do with back cycling through your targets,I never could make heads nor tails of that one.But an unharvested corpse will stay around for several minites(I know I can't spell) while a harvested one will disappear in 30 seconds.So just wait for the ones you harvested from to disappear and finish them off.

A droid won't go from corpse to corpse,however if you are all bunched up close (you,the droid and the creatures) as soon as you kill one,hit your droid harvest macro before you hit the next creature and the little bugger will harvest them as fast as your dropping them.

Andthe droids harvest abality is dependant on the rating of the droid plus your harvest abality.If you use Veghash,and I think this is how it works,take the Veghash before you call out your droid and I believe the droid will harvest at its rating+your abality WITH the Veghash.

Easier still is to move a few steps everytime you tap a lair.

What I do is tap the lair, kill the ones that come out, go harvest them, then tap the lair again. That way I know I won't lose any harvests because the corpse disappears.

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