personally I don't see how there could be a level past A10. in laggy zones or even with slight server/client differences A5 would allow you to dig BEFORE you could even see or regain control of your character after zoning.


Entering some zones it takes ~5 seconds before you can start to move again, I can definitely see how A10 might appear to be A5 for that reason.


Everyone I've talked to says A10 is the highest. Watching the JPs who were level 10 when I was just starting out, I can safely say that there is nothing beyond A10, or else it requires such an exponentially large amount of greens in comparison to A9->A10 that they've yet to reach it.


I've been A10 for about 3 weeks now and have gone through a considerable number (maybe ~3-4k?) of greens. I really can't imagine another level up occuring.

Actualy i could imagine an A5 if you think of it in terms of what is required to level other crafts to 100 if A5 = 100 and A10 = 90.


Consideirng how few skill ups you get in other crafts in the 90s. I don't see why it wouldn't be possible that to get to A5 you might need to dig up ALOT of elemental ore


imagine trying to skill up fishing to 100 with bait that attracts every fish

I'm not going to rule out the possibility of A5, besides 3-4k greens is only 333 stacks, A20-15 took me 2800 stacks and A15-10 took me 2000 stacks. Unless ofcourse you mean 3-4k stacks, then I'd be more skeptical. Between getting the three trash items without a good one, and competing with the known MAX JP diggers on my server I still feel A10 is not as good as it should be.


Without competition A10 is 500k/hour, about 100k/hour with, yes competition is that bad. I guess compared to camping HNM for 3 hours and getting a good $ drop, it's not that great. But there's so many JP diggers that even at 7am JST during crescent moon theres atleast 5 A10 diggers out. I still do decent, but I can't help thinking their getting the best of me.


I've had my fun with them though, they have ignored all my tells for 4 months now when trying to converse with them about digging. It's really discouraging when you see their extremely rude search comments in English about getting tells. Today I pissed atleast 3 of them off, I followed them around with lock target and dug right on their asses, it was histarical. They would stop digging send me tells all in jap, only thing I recognized was "GM". It was SOO AWSOME digging 2 platinum ores and 2 gold beastcoins back to back right out from under Falus's choco, whom has ignored my tells for many months after finding out he was MAX and has had "English tells X" in his search comment, then /shouting what I got and watching him dismount and warp was priceless. I've tried to be nice and chat but oh well, those bitches are getting their payback finally.

hahah ive done the same thing. ive had quite a few high level JP diggers who have tried to "discourage" me from early on whenever they see me, finally I can put up a fight. The other day one came right up to me in rolanberry and started digging, about 3 minutes later I got an orichalcum and didnt hesistate to let him know.


Regarding A5, another reason why I dont really see it as possible is looking at my own rare item dig rate vs. how often other A10s (the one's that were A10 5 months ago) sell the same items. I dig roughly the same number of orichalcum/adaman ores as they do.


Btw i wasn't clear in my earlier post. 3-4k was 3-4k stacks, not 3-4k greens. Sorry for the confusion.


I suppose only time will tell if there's an A5, I still test my wait time periodically out of pure habit.

I hit up Rolanberry today pretty hard and seemed I could compete rather well with them, got 2 ori ores within about 45min with 3 A10 JP there constantly also. The competition is rediculous though it's so damn discouraging, but it is the weekend so NA times don't even matter I guess. Aside from digging patterns hinting on A5, I'm gonna agree with you for now jared. I just wish elemental ores were easier to dig :/