>>>seems kinda of dumb to me(um please noo posts of flame....


Don't worry, we won't flame you, all those 200+ posts are just us talking about how we think it's pretty dumb too >.> And... uh ... Square Enix is dumb for putting it in the game too <.<

yes, nothing to see here. move along...

You can get clusters in Sanctuary of Zi'tah, Yhoator/Yuhtunga Jungles and Eastern/Western Altep Deserts. IT MUST BE DOUBLE WEATHER, though. This means, there will be a double weather icon. You will see two weather icons instead of one.

So I decided to give choco digging a try. I bought choco gloves and boots, five stacks of greens for my choco, and one for myself (in case it actually does something). Dug 20 times each in East Saruta, Tahrongi, and Buburimu on full moon watersday, earth weather in Tahrongi.


Nothing outstanding, got a bunch of junk, the best thing being a giant femur and 2 bone chips. I noticed something odd though. Before today, I've only tried digging once, about 2 months ago, one stack of greens in Gustaberg. Today when I was digging, it seemed as though my delay time between digs was on the order of 8-9 seconds.


Could I have possibly leveled up so soon? Does choco gear decrease the time between digs at lower levels? Does eating a green decrease the time between digs at lower levels?


On a side note, apparently my crappy treat staff has become useless after halloween, b/c I had to outpost teleport home for 800 gil >_<

The first time I ever went chocobo digging, I was at wait 11. I never started at wait 16. I don't know, maybe your level also has something to do with the amount of rides you have taken, or maybe the total time spent riding a chocobo.


I choco around a lot, and I rode around just getting from A to B way before I picked up digging. Anyone else have a similar experience? Maybe someone who uses chocobos a lot but has never done any digging could check his wait time to find out...

"The first time I ever went chocobo digging, I was at wait 11. I never started at wait 16. I don't know, maybe your level also has something to do with the amount of rides you have taken, or maybe the total time spent riding a chocobo. "


or maybe you wern't counting from when you hit your first dig macro. use this macro

/dig

/wait 11

/dig

I think I know how you came to a delay time of 8-9 seconds at just starting out. My observations in my time spent digging has been that the delay registers the second that the game identifies the /dig command. This is usually a half second before you stop to dig. Therefore, it's actually a few seconds before it identifies that you've "Obtained: ________."


Anyone who's used to fishing will wait until the choco is done, then hit the macro. If you do that, then a good 6ish seconds has already been cropped off your wait time, which may seem like a delay of 11 seconds.


Now a question for everyone. I'm at /wait 11, I've covered almost 200 stacks of greens at this level. Am I near the point for /wait 6 yet? Or have I got a long way to go?

Ah yeah, I didn't realize that the counter started as soon as your type /dig. Of course you're right, I'd wait till the chocobo was done digging, then fire off my macro. I fish too much =P

I estimate it took me 400 stacks to go from wait 11 to wait 6. But I suspect it took me longer than average.

 

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While I can confirm this, I have no evidence to prove it: It is /not/ dependant on an item to level up. Reason?


I was hitting my macro very consistantly in Konschtat Highlands (I was at /wait 11). I was getting my standard wait after 7 seconds every time, hit some pugil scales, got my wait after 7 seconds, pulled up NOTHING, and the wait was gone! I leveled up on nothing.


Also, I leveled on Iron Ore to get to /wait 11, so I can confirm it's not a Bone Chip.


As a note, I'm very much enjoying my /wait 6 times. Is it significantly better as I move up to /area 50?