You get some money back in the jungles. I was lucky, and think I had a total net loss of 10k from /wait 16 to /wait 11. However, my friend had some pretty nasty streaks of 0 items at this level, so luck is of course a factor.


40k is enough to start. Once you get a few stacks of Rattan Lumber, Bone chips, Cinnamon, and a few logs, you might consider taking a break and heading to the AH, and perhaps farming a bit to make up for losses so you don't go totally broke.

How much total time can you add to your ride with the chocobo gear? I usually fill up my inventory with plenty of time to still get to my destination, but then I don't usually go out empty with the sole intent of digging. I am at wait 0/ zone 45 or whatever it is, and I have enough gil that I've considered the gear, but it just doesn't seem worth it for only a couple more minutes.

I must have some crappy luck if someone can get a 0 delay time between digs by just leisurely digging during a trek to a desired destination, while I'm still stuck at 6 second delay digging up a storm in the supposed "good" areas

hehe, well, I wouldn't say it's been leisurely, but I think part of the reason I've had good success (I'm proud to say I've broken at least even from day one, good profit starting at wait 6) is that going through 4-5 zones, even if one is crappy, I usually have better luck in the next one, due to the interaction of day element/zone element & all that good stuff.


Plus, I travel a LOT. I fish, so I regularly choco to Sandy to turn in my carp, and now that I'm doing guild points I choco to Windy at least once a day. So I'd say I do a minimum of like 4-6 choco trips a day, usually 6-10 stacks a trip. I like digging so much I'm not in a hurry at all anymore to lvl high enough for my teleports ^^

That's funny, because I've been thinking about leveling my whm high enough to get teleports specifically FOR digging.


Since I leveled, I'm now at Wait 0 / Area 45. It's great, except a lot of the "good" zones are always dug up. I don't mind too much, I have just as much fun digging in K Highlands as in Meriphataud or Altepa.

Hello, I'd just like to thank everyone for all the information they provided in this board. The sites posted have been especially useful.


Here's my 2 bits:


I've been digging in the jungles around Kazham for about 5 days now and I'm already down to 6 second delays between digs and it's been very profitable for me so far. I've made over 200k *profit* so I have to say this is definately one of the best moeny making methods I've come across.


At this point I can't exactly confirm or deny that there's a testing system or that after a certain amount of stacks you level up. I think I got my first level up at about 60-70 stacks of greens and my second level up at about 150 stacks total. I did dig up the supposed test items around the time I noticed my delay decrease both times, but I wasn't testing my delay each time, so it could just be a coincidense as there were plenty of other items dug up around the same time.


From what I've seen so far, the day you dig on definately makes a difference. Light and Firesday seem to be the best days for the jungles for logs, while I notice more of the food items on Watersday. Other days just seem slower, though I can still manage to at least break even. Sometimes when one area is all dug out, it appears to refresh it's supply very soon after weather starts, so weather does seem important as well.


I can't wait to level up a bit more and start hitting Rolanberry and Meriphataud for a chance at some oricalchum and adaman ore.


I haven't seen this on any items lists so far, but I dug up a few Reishi Mushrooms in Yhoator.

The Reishi Mushrooms should be on our chocobo page at somepage.com/ffxi/ - if not they will be in the next update. I just updated the page a bit to reflect some things I'd dug up, etc.

Well, I got 0 dig delay today right after digging up a pebble in Sauromague Champaign. So I think leveling up is based on the amount of successful digs rather than digging up certain items.

Regarding profit, I'm still at /wait 6 and typically head out in the Kazham area with 12 stacks per session. I have yet to lose money and I usually make profit.


The best I did was 30k in a half hour, but then you have to subtract the 9000 I spent on the greens. Still pretty good. Normally it's much worse than that, but still bearable. I just want my /wait 0!


If anyone has ANY tips at all on better ways to skill, that would be super yes yes fabulously wonderfully great! I'm still just roaming around randomly where ever I like.

I started digging and got to lvl1 from lvl 0 but i did nto have alot of time to invest so i gave up for the time being..after lots of losses too =(