in real life, if u gather with ur hand, it's most likely druid(non tauren to be fair) is the best. I am talking about mining/herb combo.
druid can herb in flight, and able to drop combat. so u can pretty much cyclone, gather, cat and stealth away. if ur NE u got double drop combat. druid also never get knock off the mount in flight. however when air mobs aggros, usually ur not at very high so fall damage is small.. after all, the advantages druid have in herb/mining combo is slightly better than paladin 10% speed, IF you gather with ur fingers on keyboard eyes on screen.
but I found a problem, druid may be better if u gather with ur fingers. but when bot is running, and if u are trying to mine, sure u will fight and kill the mob, but when u try to herb(non tauren without forager's glove). the mobs tend to always get to u when u half way or almost finish the herb, because u are still in flight form, it will not engage combat, instead if will fly up, leave combat, and try again. it will do it 3 times and then give up... now that is a HUGE waste of time especially if u are doing herbs in area of ur similar level, where u gonna get aggro by mob most the time. so imagine u fly up, drop combat and go again 3 times in the end don't even get the herb. that's pretty bad. while if u are paladin. because u need to get off mount to herb, when mob aggro the bot will kill the mob... this way u save lots of time and get the herb...
so from my findings, for mining, paladin is as good as druid as u get faster speed to save 1.5 seconds cast time. so unless u are digging a mine every 15 seconds or less, u are most likely better off with paladin. as for herb, druid may be better in real life, but with this bot, druid is bad. so right now I am gonna make my paladin also herb/mine. I already have a druid with herb/mine combo.
will run a 2 hours session in off-peak hour on each to see which one gets more nodes. I am pretty sure it will be Paladin !!!
what do u guys think?