I dont want to talk too much about how I lvl up my skill here, because I would like to let you guys find it out yourself.


However, I can teach you a way to know if you get lvl up or not in chocobo digging, other than just count the time.


If you have maxed a countries' fame, there will be a fixed minimum price for chocobo hiring. Everytime you get lvl up in chocobo digging, there will be a +2 gil to the based price. e.g. when i was area30, the minimum price for me is 98gil, and now i'm area25 so i need to pay at least 100gil for chocobo hiring. However, i have already forgotten what was the starting price, I think it should be 86gil at the beginning(not sure though).


this is a good indication when you passed wait0, coz it is hard to count your lvl at pass that.


Ok, good luck again^^

I hit Level 2 just now.


Im doing some major statistical work on day of week and weather and what i get/how much. Ill keep you guys informed.


Current data (simplified)


2/8 Ice Day with water weather in lathiene

5/26 Ice day in Lathiene

2/12 Wind day with occasional Wind weather in burimubu (Got nothing during wind weather)

2/12 Wind day Tahrongi

3/12 Wind day Tahrongi with Earth weather


Notable drops were Chestnut log and Giant Femurs.

I had some time to kill once while I was studying, so I did a little experiment in South Gustaberg. I took the same amount of greens (28) and followed the same path each time, at the beginning of the day.


Firesday: (10 items)

4 little worms

4 pebbles

1 grain seeds

1 bone chip


Earthday: (11 items)

3 lizard molts

2 insect wings

2 pebbles

1 bird feather

2 bone chips

1 mythril beastcoin


Watersday: (9 items)

4 little worms

1 bone chip

2 pebbles

1 lizard molt

1 grain seeds


Windsday: (14 items)

2 pebbles

2 bone chips

2 rock salt

3 little worms

3 insect wings

2 lizard molts


Iceday: (7 items)

2 pebbles

2 lizard molts

1 bone chip

1 little worm

1 insect wing


Lightningday: (7 items)

3 little worms

2 pebbles

1 insect wing

1 bone chip


Lightsday: (9 items)

1 bone chip

1 little worm

4 pebbles

1 bird feather

1 insect wing

1 lizard molt


Darksday: (9 items)

3 insect wings

1 bone chip

3 little worms

1 pebble

1 rock salt


Conclusion: I know LESS than I knew before.

What was the weather at those times?

Any idea?

Actually, in my experience so far, day of the week and weather didn't make much difference to me. Except you get some crystals in weather days, and some clusters in double weather days.

Im not really interested in how to skill up.. i've already figured that out.. im just trying to figure out if there is any way i can improve my dig success rate. Im at 11 sec wait time right now and have about a 33% success rate on about 60 greens. Out of that my highest selling item was 400 gil. i did some minor bonework to boost it to 800 but i want to try and get some of the better dings.


Any tips on that? or just skill up to get better stuff

I, on the other hand, am interested in the best way to skillup.


I'm not asking you to give away any secrets, but I have gone through over 100 stacks of greens and I'm still at /wait 16. What I want to know more than anything, is whether or not there is a trick to succeeding here, other than just digging a lot. You don't have to reveal the trick to me if there is one (though, I wouldn't mind a private message^^), I just want to know if one exists.


I'm starting to get a little frustrated. I don't mind sinking a lot of time and gil in to it if it will get me somewhere, but at this point in time, I am kind of frustrated that I have had essentially 0 return in terms of tangible skillups.

I'm with Sykes. If I knew there was a strategy of some sort—an actual process to leveling up that makes at least a little sense—well, it'd be a lot less frustrating.


I've been enjoying abusing my poor little chocobo and his (worn down) digging beak. But I'm starting to think that he might be just the slightest bit, ah, mentally understatured...you know, a little slow on the draw...maybe even...totally goddamn retarded?





/em Kinch feeds his choco Poison Flour.

Good thread.

http://www.vgcats.com/vgc_comics/?strip_id=88


Sorry, couldn't resist. Some days, I think I end up riding the mistakes when I go digging.