If you hit f twice in very, very fast succession when gathering herbs (or, to some extent metal or wood), the game actualy lets you gather that location twice. Not always, but quite often.
I happened upon this after creating a mouse-macro for looting. It does nothing but send “f” every 0.2 seconds while I hold that mousebutton down. This allows me to run over the battlefield holding down Button 10 of my Naga and quickly pick up all the loot. It’s my personal replacement for a missing area-loot or similar functionality.
The button is quite useless for talking to NPCs, though, as it will open / close vendor windows (for example) in fast succession. It’s nice for the lazy gatherer, though: Just run towards the herb holding the button down and as soon as you’re close enough, you pick it up.
Now, recently I noticed that sometimes, I’ll gather some herb and immediately gather again. At first I thought “Oh well, there’s rich ore, maybe there’s rich plants as well.” But then I gathered onions first and some other herb right after that. This ,akes me believe that it’s actually not “rich herbs” but a bug where hitting “f” very fast when starting to gather, you will actually gather twice.
Obviously this is unintended, so I stopped to gather using the macroed button but instead mapped a single “f”-press to a different button, using the macro for looting only.
I guess it’s a bug though and using it should be considered exploiting. I just hope I don’t gat banned for stumbling upon it accidentally and then reporting it with my main account.
EDIT: In case a repeated sending of one and the same key while physically holding a button down is considered “botting” – I don’t think it is since it’s not doing an automated sequence and I have to physically hold the button while the macro is running. I created a ticked asking for clarification, but noone ever answered that in a helpful manner, so I guess such a macro is not a bot, otherwise you guys would have told me so when I asked about it.
(edited by phooka.4295)