Prospecting

Rhynst:
Prospecting goes up incredibly slowly and is incredibly brain numbingly
boring. You raise it by finding Dubo near the ranger camp, getting a
prospecting pan and spending hours sitting around waiting for gold –
rather like a real prospector, I’d imagine.

Tinuviel's comments:
I enjoy raising mostly-useless abilities, but this one is truly the most
painful.  It's best done when you need to sit around healing hp/sp
(perhaps before you go back to mining) and best done while you do
something in another window or read a book, typing 'prospect' every
couple of minutes.  Definitely do not expect to get rich doing this.  I'm at
34 for this ability after spending hours at it.  I haven't had much luck with
the rivers in Dubo's area, but rather in the northern rivers closer to
Snowfolk guild.  You can prospect on Infidian, too :)