
You will notice that you end up gaining EXP faster, but will gain less wood. An example of this is when you are chopping wood – try logging the skinny trees and keep track of your EXP gain in a minute vs. Gathering larger nodes will give you more of the resource per second, but the smaller nodes are better for leveling up the Trade skill in the first place. Keep this in mind when you are planning your gathering route in the area. The large oil nodes take a few minutes longer to respawn even though you mine the small node first. Most obvious example of this is for oil when you try to make an efficient run gathering all you can. small pile) take longer to respawn after you have gathered it. Resource size affects respawn timer and EXP efficiency
