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i doubt that zones are limited in the ores that can be dug there by what weather occurs- I've dug fire ore in buburimu and earth/wind in zitah and none of those weather patterns occur there. Furthermore it wouldn't account for being able to dig ores in lowbie areas surrounding towns (which pirategirl can confim that you can) where no weather occurs other than fog, or being able to dig light/dark ore when auroras/gloom don't occur in any area you can chocodig in.


I've heard the "theory" seen on japanese digging pages regarding ore digging criteria and from my experience it seems at least somewhat accurate. However elemental ore is rare, even at A10 (gardening it seems is a more reliable method for obtaining it), and I can't make any sort of conclusive findings from my rather limited experience.

I don't dig a lot in Rolanberry, I leave that to Jared. I dug up a fire ore in South Gustaberg, though, in regards to ore in the "lower" zones.

Has the digger population increased such that pretty much every zone is "dug up" these days? The reason I ask is that I think I finally hit a "fresh" zone last night (E. Sarutabaruta) because EVERY dig was a success, and I'm still /wait 11.


This leads me to believe it was the first time I wasn't in a "dug up" zone. Every other time I've been digging, I get about 3-4 items a stack, which at /wait 11, is about 4-5 items a game hour, which is supposed to be the approximate "refresh" rate of items. Sometimes it's less, sometimes it's more, but obviously this would depend on other diggers...


So are all the zones "dug up" and we can just get the stuff that spawns as we're digging? I hate to say it, but that's probably the state things are "supposed" to be in, at leas as far as the programmers are concerned... but it just makes early levels that much more of a barrier to the high lvls.


In reading some of the early parts of this thread from last year, the early levels were profitable, which I can only assume was because you could dig up the low lvl profitable stuff (like bone chips) much more frequently. I've not come close to breaking even yet, although the occasional log has got me close. Of course, I don't count crafting supplies (I have a few stacks of bone chips waiting for my next bonecrafting run), which I probably should...


Also, I finally bought choco-gear, because I wanted to be able to dig from windy to sandy, and needed the extra 15 minutes to do so. Is there any evidence that the gear adds to your skill? I didn't notice much difference, but I did start digging up a bunch of iron ore, which I had only had 1 of before that point... Of course, that could have just been random...

No to your first question halplm, I believe it's just that the areas around cities have larger item pools and also respawn at a much faster rate.

My main question didnt quite get answered I don't think... does it matter which crescent moon it is, waxing or waning?


Oh, and Pirategirl how did Jared beat you to A10 when you been digging for over a year...?! o.O I'd like to hear about his personal experiences/habits in digging.

im not to sure about waxing/waning...


well... I'm level 75 so I didn't really need to xp. I have my crafts skilled to the point where I can turn most logs into lumber and ores into ingots, and 5 mules to store/sell whatever I find.


I'd say I dug an average of 90-100 stacks a day for about 5 months, sometimes more on the weekends or less when my LS had sky or dynamis or whatever events going on.


That and I'm a persistent bastard who gets easily addicted to things >_>

Woot! Just got to /wait 6... It's awesome... wish the servers would let me log on to play with it.


Also dug up my first Gold Ore today, very cool.


One question I had, for after I get past /wait 6 to /wait 0. What technique to poeple use without a wait?


Is it just a matter of spamming /dig? Or is there a /wait in the macro? Obviously if you're trying to get somewhere, a /wait 6-7-8 might make sense, but if you're just digging, i'm not sure.


what macros do people use with /wait 0? obviously I'm not there yet, but I'm curious...

Well I got A10, first NA on Odin I think, and dug my first elemental ore today... kinda. Went to work and when I came home my girlfriend was all excited. Showed me my screen and she had dug my first elemental ore(Earth Ore-Earth Day-Earth Weather-Battalia Downs). Went out and dug for a while longer with no success, go figure lol.

Ya know, Pikataru said on the last page that A5 was the MAX Chocobo Dig level and suprisingly noone argued, after a few days digging at A10 I think that might actually be true. Theres a very distinct pattern to areas and how they deposit items. You will be digging along, and a deposit of about 3=4 items will be put in the area, it happens nearly every single time. In this deposit there is always a good item in the mix, like say an Orichalcum Ore plus an insect wing, red jar, and a pebble, 3 trash items and a good one. Happens so often with Beastcoins and Phil Stones and Gold ores and even Mythril ores just about every decent item, it can't be just coincidence it's straight up a defined pattern.


There is an exception to the pattern, each item in the deposit is on a different level of chocobo dig, or atleast your skill determines weather you can dig that item or not. So there may be an A25 digger in the area digging, and dig the first 3 trash items, then you come along with A10 and dig your Orichalcum Ore without any other items in the mix, because that A25 can't get the hard to dig Ori Ore.


Now to what makes me think there may be another level past A10, on several occasions and well over a dozen times the past few days, I have been digging an area that is by no means dry and get 2-3 trash items in a row, without a good item. I can only think that if I was one skill higher, I would indeed dig up that rarer/better item. Yes there can be coincedence that another A10 is in the area and dug right after I dug up the trash items. But honestly, like I said it's happened atleast a dozen times. And here I thought I was first MAX NA on Odin, though atleast first A10!


Pikataru, I'd like to know if it's personal experience or if a JP told you A5, cause all the JP I asked on Odin(theres like 15 A10+ diggers :/ ) have all said A10 is max, but I have every single one of them so...

That was HATE not "have" in that last sentance... anyways, anyone have any thoughts?