Mostly looking to do gathering/crafting. If thereâs a routine thatâll gather and craft all my quest turnins, that would be ideal, but itâs not super important. Gathering is the main thing Iâm looking for, preferably that doesnât look like itâs obviously a bot.
Crafting is easy: open your craft log, select the recipe you want, tell Miqobot how many times to craft, and hit start. She’ll maximise the quality bar on each craft while still guaranteeing completion, insofar as you have the stats to complete the craft. The only thing you need to do is put all of the skills you want her to use on KEYBOUND hotbar slots – Miqobot only uses keybinds to trigger things. She’ll calculate exactly how to get you the best quality each time, respecting material condition.
Gathering takes a bit more work. Miqobot doesn’t have “built in” navigation grids, only a small handful of bundled ones – and you can change, replace, or delete them if you want. You can find navgrids made by other users here on the forums, which can be downloaded and imported quickly and simply, or you can hand-make your own grids instead. As with the bundled ones, you can edit the imported ones too – all navgrids are basically points that Miqo goes to, and lines connecting those points so she knows how to get to each point, from each other point. Don’t worry about defining longer paths, she calculates the shortest distance based on the lines defined.
For gathering, the navgrids mean that there’s more work involved for the initial setup than just saying “I want these items”, but it also means that – especially if you tweak your grids or make them yourself – you won’t have the same exact paths as other players, even if they’re also using Miqobot. Once the navgrid is set up though, gathering is also pretty easy. You can define a gathering preset which consists of a linked navgrid (for Miqo to use while moving around to the gathering nodes) and a list of items by name that you want her to gather, in a priority ordering. The details are more important once you get started, but you can find them easily enough elsewhere on the forum. Once the gathering preset is ready for the item you want, just go to that area (the area of the NAVGRID, not just the map zone) and tell Miqo how many NODES you want her to harvest, then hit start. She’ll use the grid to move around to each node and handle everything for you at that point.
Finally, as an alternative, you can also put Miqobot into assisted gathering mode, where she won’t move on her own anymore. Instead, she’ll look for the nodes you specify (partial name) when they get within reach of your character while you walk around, and then she’ll open them up and take care of gathering from them according to your prioritised item list.
So, bottom line: for crafting, few things are easier than Miqobot; for gathering, there’s an initial setup time, but after that she’s probably the socially-safest option, and it’s also pretty easy to do that initial setup.
Overall, for $10 for a month, and the dev team automatically extending subscriptions for game downtime AND bot downtime, even if you only use the craft/gather features I consider Miqobot more than worth it. I haven’t used the combat features much yet, but the MGP farming is fantastic too.
Oh yeah, she also does fishing for you, on top of node gathering.