back to more digging

after couple phone calls I found out I won't have to babysit til Wednesday.

I resumed digging and got platnium ore, gold beastcoin, and coral fragment. not great dig success rate, but when I did get a success I made it count. last digging session yielded 5 mythril beastcoins and a puffball but just 1 elm log. today i either had some rather dry zones or dug up bunch of crap when i had fresh zones.

still got over 1000-1300 stacks to go before I hit craftsman rank. 3 AM right now so time to get some zzzzzz.

good news and bad news

Last night I dug up my first orch. ore in Rolanberry. Did not dig during early waxing crescent because it was 4AM when it started. Resumed digging and got 4 Oak Logs and a Gold Ore. Nothing special except a lot of junk. Hardly anything I already had on AH has sold yet, however, so I have to slow down and let that sell.

The bad news is that I probably won't get to dig again until Wednesday night at the earliest. My brother called and I may have to go up to their house and babysit his daughter. My brother is down in Key West on Naval Reserves business until October, which means I have to help his wife and daughter out more. I found it out right after I got home from the funeral home (someone that went to my church died last week).

allergies ><

yesterday i felt so horrible I only did 30 stacks of greens and laid in bed most of the day. i ended up going to sleep shortly after midnight and didn't wake up til 2:30 PM. Highlights were 2 king truffles and 6 petrified logs.

I feel a bit better today but I'm still sore from helping parents outside on Friday night getting those trees trimmed. I did another 50 stacks of greens so far. 4 Elm and 7 Petrified Logs. One of the black rocks yielded an Painite (the other two were NQ).

One of the neighbors graduated from high school today but I'm not attending his party. Just being outside really triggers the allergies so I need to stay inside as much as possible.

Journeyman Rank: Found It!

I just dinged Journeyman Rank in digging (A35) few minutes ago. Took me 1007.67 stacks of ghysal greens to do it.

fierce competition

lately I seen some high competiton. The competition in the jungles really turned up in the past 3 or 4 days. I was in there trying to dig up more dryad roots for my alchemy mule only to find 2 or 3 other high level diggers in the area. I tried Konschtat Highlands but the prices of both Elm Logs and Bast Parchment have dropped. So I moved right outside Windy going for Saruta Cotton, Green Rocks, Ebony Logs, and Tree Cuttings. Not my preferred spot, but I'm on the verge of going up a digging rank and the last thing I want right now is hardcore competition.

phoenix

another early waxing crescent came and went, and another one that i did not dig up an elemental ore. perhaps my digging skill is a bit low, but seeing screenshots of someone pulling one up at A25 skill gives me hope. I'm convinced that they can be dug up as early as Craftsman rank digging. I'm about to hit Journeyman rank anytime, but it hasn't happened yet.

I did pull up a Phoenix Feather. I also crafted with some of the junk items and ended up making Bandit's Gun (NQ that is a 25k per synth profit right now), 3 Bone Earrings +1, Spike Necklace, and 3 Bone Picks +1. I'm making about 2.5M per week on average since I started digging again. Having 100+3 bonecraft and 60 in other crafts but goldsmithing (52) and fishing (24) really helps in turning the junk into money.

stormy

today i was offline for 4 hours during my peak digging time b/c of severe weather. the computer had to be shut off per family rules, which I hate, but we can't afford to have our power supply get fried again. once it finally calmed down, i opted to get in a skillup party to level up my level 62 npc character. 25 mobs were killed before the time limit was up but I felt we could had easily killed the max of 30. It didn't happen b/c peeps kept making critical mistakes that lead to several deaths (the killer being a whm mistargeting a darter at west waterfall camp in the tree that wound up with 6 dead party members by the time the darters finally died).

After the npc left, I left that party and resumed digging. I pulled up 5 petrified logs, and quite a bit of assorted junk. I tried crafting with the junk, but either did NQ or critical break of all but 1 synth. I went to alchemy mule to use up those dryad roots but ran out of bat wings. My alchemy mule did get up to 67.4 in alchemy and used up all but 3 1/2 stacks out of 12-13 stacks of dryad roots in the process.

I resumed digging, pulled up 5 elm logs (turned them into bast parchment as its a 6k per synth profit right now), 2 mythril beastcoins, and more junk. HQ a Bone Harness, but NQ or crit break everything else. I'm on a 0/8 streak on HQ Bone Picks with 2 critical breaks right now.

Its 5AM right now. Supposed to be in bed right now, but I don't even feel sleepy. Stupid prescription the doctor gives me gives me insomina and nothing else he gives for my allergy problems seem to work at all. I made an appointment to see an allergy specialist in St. Louis next week but that is all I'm talking about this.

tonight better, sorta

tonight I did more digging in the jungles. out of just 32 stacks of greens (i've been AFK for the most part, and there has been competition on top of that), I ended up with:

19 rosewood logs
3 ebony logs
1 coral fungus
4 petrified logs

I totally expect results to improve as the night to go on. They did to some lesser extent. 3 more petrified logs, 10 more ebony, 9 mahogany, 12 rosewood, and 2 more coral fungus. i went into the highlands and promptly dug up 3 elm logs and 2 mythril beastcoins. i turned some of the other materials I dug from konschtat and valkrum into bone harness+1 and bone pick +1 attempts, but only went 1/4 on harness+1 (with 1 crit break) and 0/3 on bone pick +1 (with 1 crit break) on full moon lightsday.

so-so results

last night digging was cruddy. the best digs were a gold beastcoin, 7 mythril beastcoins, 2 darksteel ores, and 8 elm logs. I ended up with too much junk digs. I turned the elm logs into bast parchment, and crafted the giant femurs into the level 16 bone leggings and harness (2 HQ in the leggings, 1 HQ in harness, not bad). I have feeling that rosewood lumber is dropping in price and I needed to use up dryad roots, so I did not dig in the jungles today. I'll be back there sometime Tuesday. I only need 200+ stacks of greens before I go up a digging rank. On a positive note today, I did get my Walahra Turban as I just had enough gil to buy the 19 imperial gold coins I needed. Those 19 gold coins cost me 3.1M, but it was much cheaper than buying the stacks of bronze on the AH.

Monday sucks

Early waxing crescent, and I keep having d/c problems like crazy. Did get some decent diggings with better results than the last early waxing crescent, but no elemental ores to show for it. On the other hand did get 9 Elm Logs, 3 Black Rocks, and 2 Darksteel Ores during that time frame. I end up breaking even, maybe a small profit. However, when it was time to craft the rocks into jewels, I wound up with 3 NQ results in a row on a Tier 2 HQ synth. I'll just end up turning the Elm Logs into Bast Parchment but I have no moko grass to make that synth right now, and my AH slots are all tied up.

Right now I'm trying to carefully disrupt the digbots, as I did find a pattern of their digging runs and I think I found how to disrupt some of their profitable areas if not all. The recent dip in prices of Elm Logs really gave hope, as now I can get 2 to 1 money odds by converting Elm Logs into Bast Parchment.

I started crafting on my alchemy mule as well, trying to use up those Dryad Roots, but only gotten .3 skill gain on 24 synths of Hi-Ethers.

finally sold

well all the logs in the bazaar and the bulk of the lumber I had on AH finally sold while I slept last night. I wasn't thrilled with the requests to lower the price of Petrified Logs to 14k a pop, where they were already 17k a pop in bazaar and going for 20k a pop on the Sandy AH. It would be nice if they would get to me before I went asleep but they don't always read search comments. I rarely log out from the game even when I'm asleep, and when it happens its due to thunderstorms or maintenance.

Sadly, due to some competition today, some of the early digging results were so-so. Well, that all changed during the latest session, where I pulled up 3 King Truffle and 2 Petrified Logs, and I still got 2 stacks of greens left. Sadly, the Truffles sell best as singles, but seeing 90k in just 3 digs pretty much made up from the lackluster digging sessions I had so far.

after that i ended up pulling up 2 more king truffle, but a bunch of junk after that. i changed to konschtat and pashhow (in attempt to tick off the digbots), wound up with 6 elm logs but a bunch of junk. early waxing crescent is in 7 hours, better get some zzz before then.

not really happy

despite the fact one of woodworking gp items called for rosewood lumber in its synth today, the only lumber that sold last night in bazaar was 6 singles of rosewood lumber. the stuff on AH did not sell at all except for ebony lumber. usually i have no problems getting stuff sold on weeknights, but this surprised me as the petrified logs don't stack.

right now I got about 20+ petrified logs in inventory waiting to be sold, AH full of rosewood/mahogany lumber stacks, and a mule loaded of bone chips. (I'm probably going to just turn the chips into animal glue as the prices took a little nose-dive.)

Blowing up lumber synths did not help my cause either. I lost 6 ebony logs on breaks (1 coming on lightsday) and couple rosewood and mahogany logs as well. With this being a Saturday, I expected digging competition in the jungles to heat up somewhat and it did, but I'm still coming away with decent digs. I got another King Truffle, several more petrified logs, and quite a few ebony. I didn't start digging til 8pm, couple hours later than usual, but its only taking me 3-5 stacks of greens to dig up a zone.

early waxing crescent i hate you

4 game days digging during this moon phase, a bunch of junk and a loss of 50k gil to show for it despite the fact i have la thiene to myself. chocobo won't dig things up, and when it does its pebbles and little worms. I gave up after Earthsday, as it was 4AM and folks wake up in less than a hour.

falling through planks in kazham

yesterday, I made about 700k profit from digging. It wasn't as much profit from the day before, but almost everything I dug up has sold. The main exception was the 3 petrified logs, 2 stacks of ebony lumber, and the king truffle. So I know the turnover rate is there. Everything except the ebony sold out when I set up a bazaar consisting of bone chips, petrified logs, rosewood, ebony, and maghnogany lumber in Sandy by the carpenters guild last night when I went to bed.

I fell through the hole in a plank in kazham today on the way to nomad moogle. Either a glitch or lag. GM got me out of the hole, and i go right down the hole again. I sent a complaint to service and support and get a response that had nothing to do with the complaint.

It sucks when Early Waxing Crescent has to happen during JP Primetime. . . AGAIN ><

man its profitable again

last night, no competition in jungles from 6pm to 3am, i made a whopping 800k profit from the digging of coral fungus, puffballs, bone chips, danceshrooms, and logs/lumber. tonight is shaping to be much like last night right now. I just started digging little less than 30 minutes ago. Almost everything I dug yesterday, aside from a couple petrified logs and some danceshrooms, sold.

tonight, i gotten 10 petrified logs, king truffle, 3 puffballs, several maghonany/ebony/rosewood, about 9 stacks of bone chips, and 3 stacks of danceshrooms. i'm 1 away from a stack of coral fungus but inventory is filling up and its not likely i'll get that stack filled tonight. I'm about to OP warp to sandy after this digging run and pack it in until tomorrow.

jungles deserted

i dug almost all night in the jungles and only found 1 other digger the entire night. I ended up with a Puffball, 3 Petrified Logs, stack of danceshrooms, several stacks of bone chips, 26 ebony, 27 maghnogany, 4 stacks of dryad roots, 18 rattan lumber, and rest were junk. very good digging run.

took it up again

after a long break from digging, i took it up again b/c i needed dryad roots for alchemy mule. i dug up a stack in yhoator so far. I'm still digging, its just i start at a new game day, when i dig up the zone i return to town and wait til the next game day. It only takes 10-15 minutes to dig up the zone, which means 40-50 minutes of waiting.

I took the break for 1 major reason: the main money makers from digging took a nose dive in price around the first of March. Well, since then, Dryad Roots went up in price, Ebony/Maghonay Logs has returned to profitable levels, and Bone Chips are now selling at the price they were at prior to the crash. Only Petrified Logs have not returned to the price they were before, but they're on the way up again. The turnover rate has been high, as bone chips usually sell as soon as I put them on the AH, and the lumber within a day.

Rumor on the street also indicates that some of the major dig-botters on remora server were caught red-handed. I haven't seen 2 of the usual suspects in the jungles for a few days. The major botter from Rolanberry to Konschtat is still online but usually hides for few hours after a digging session (apparently that leg isn't as profitable when the only real money maker seems to be elm logs and mythril beastcoins). The Altepa botters are gone, but other diggers have taken their place.

one of my digging runs in yhoator yielded 6 Maghonany and 4 Ebony Logs, along with 2 stacks of bone chips. Best yield of the day from just 8 stacks of greens.