Couple questions since this has sparked my interest..


- What is a double element day? (If I were to guess, it's where 2 weather effects were present over the course of a day but I do not want to assume)


- At first, I had thought items were in specific spots in the ground when posters mentioned a goblin digger would hide an item in the ground. Is it more like fishing though? With the exception of goblin digger items.


Thanks, hopefully this will clear up my confusion.

PirateGirl, your wait11 is only lvl2.

the lvl is like the following:


lvl1: wait16 (area60)

lvl2: wait11

lvl3: wait6

lvl4: wait0(Area60)

lvl5: Area45(wait0)

lvl6: Area40

lvl7: Area35

lvl8: Area30

lvl9: Area25

lvl10: Area20

lvl11: Area15

lvl12: Area10


I'm Area25. nothing more to say, good luck all^^

"What is a double element day?"


Sometimes rather than having one Fire icon, for exmaple, there will be two, which just means the weather is more extreme. Usually this manifests in cool looking stuff, like tornados for double earth in altepa.


"At first, I had thought items were in specific spots in the ground when posters mentioned a goblin digger would hide an item in the ground. Is it more like fishing though? With the exception of goblin digger items."


This is my understanding of it. I do the same thing as PirateGirl, just run around aimlessly digging. "Oh, that's a nice looking tree," I say, and then go dig by it. I don't know whether or not items burried by goblin diggers stay burried in that location. Whenever I have camped them, I dug immediately and got the item. And to bring fishing into the question is dangerous, since not everyone agrees that it doesn't matter where you cast your rod...

On double element days (which are, as said before, 2 of the same element - I've never seen 2 different ones), you can dig up clusters of that element. I dig up water clusters all the time in Yuhtunga on double water days.


I tend to think more lately that the items are random, it's more like fishing. There's x number of fish in the pond, and it doesn't matter from where you're fishing them. I also think this because it appears that like fishing, you can "dig up" a zone. I was digging in Yuhtunga yesterday, and I dug up not one single thing in 15 digs. It was then I noticed that there were at least 2 other diggers in the zone. I also think that like fishing, you need to "zone" after a certain number of digs/items. Once I start getting more than say 4 or 5 digs with nothing, I zone.

Zoning is also suggested in the URL I posted above. Check it out if you didn't, it's pretty cool.

Yeah, nice link. I need to do lots of digging this weekend.

From my (limited) experiance, Fire and water are good days, Lightning SUCKS, dark sucks HARD, earth seems neither good nor bad.


By the way, how many greens are we talking? I got about oh 10-12 items off 3 stacks in East Ronfarre... Trying to get a gold orcmask in there. I have a list of everything you can dig up on the mainland. Doesn't list what you can dig in the expansion area. Also, crystals aren't on the list. If enough people care ill post it up on here.

"I'm Area25. nothing more to say, good luck all^^"


Well, I sure got a question for you! ^^ (Though that seemed to be your first post, so this may be futile)


About how many stacks of greens, or how long (if it's easier to answer that way) did it take you to get to that level?


I think this "craft" sounds interested and somewhat different from the same ol' grind.


And yet, I'm scared to death of starting something that some people claim takes 7 MILLION gil to level to the point of real profitability (10,000 stacks of greens).


I just don't get this: I mean, considering how long this game has been out in Japan....SOMEbody must know, no matter their nationality, how you level up this skill.


It would be a bit disheartening if it was just a function of total number of digs..since were that true, there's just no way around digging for (what sounds like) months upon months.


Kinch

I asked the question of "how does one level digging" to one of the high level diggers that I have seen around. She was Japanese. Her reply was this: many many (money).


I have little expectations that this will get me very much gil anytime soon, but I think in the long run, it might. I first got interested in digging back when I was always desperately trying to get that 12th moat carp. I noticed one of the AH moat carp campers and eventually asked her how in the world she had gotten so much money. I forget the specifics of her reply, but the beginning I remember vividly: "(Chocobo) (Dig), gardening, ..."


I was shocked to see that this rich higher level summoner listed chocobo digging *first* when queried about her money making strategies. So it is my hope that eventually this will make me truly rich.

Well thanks for answering my questions -- this is the most informational post on Chobi digging I've seen since about January.


Now that it's been mentioned, I think I have seen 2 rain drops in the jungles out of Kazham. I have yet to travel to the Altepa desert to witness that extreme heat.


You have me convinced though. I may take several stacks of greens next time I head out ^^