stuff finally selling

I decided to leave my character logged in while I slept. All but 4 darksteel ore and all but 3 stacks of bone chips sold while I slept. The stack of grain seeds should sell in a while, and 4 stacks of mythril beastcoins are still waiting to sell.

I opted to skip this early waxing crescent. Undead besieged was coming up during this time but I opted to skip that as well, as I got a lot of real life chores to do (finish cleaning those showers, and get laundry started). With yours truly leaving for the southeast in less than 48 hours, there is a lot of things to get done in a short amount of time. With my mother unable to do much in the way of house cleaning due to her bad shoulder, I'm stuck with the dirty work as my dad won't do it and you can't convince him to help.

couple days til vacation

in just over 48 hours from now I'll be leaving for vacation. No FFXI which means no digging during the 9-day vacation. As a result, I'm hoping everything I got in bazaar and/or AH would sell before then. For some reason, the turnover rates have not been living up to par lately.

I did 60 stacks of greens Tuesday. I was AFK for part of the day for a while after the besieged with mammols, to get some errands done. So much things to do for vacation.

Early waxing crescent will begin in a few hours but I don't think I'm going to do any digging during this time. If those darksteel ores would hurry up and sell it would be one thing, but they haven't and right now it isn't worth the time to turn them into ingots as they're moving even slower.

darksteel pulling

today i did 100 stacks of greens (could had done more if it wasn't for the fact i went afk for 3 hours for funeral home visitation) in north and south gustaberg. the results were much better than yesterday. 11 darksteel ores, 20 mythril beastcoins, 7 grain seeds, and 6 1/2 stacks of bone chips. 74.4k spent on ghysal greens, made a approximate profit of 373k when everything decides to hurry up and sell. The fact I did some digging around full moon helped, as a good chunk of the day before fell during quarter moon.

halfway point

700 stacks into my level. today i pulled up 2 darksteel ore, 1 cactus stems, 9 grain seeds, 14 mythril beastcoins, and 4 stacks of bone chips in 70 stacks of greens. not a great haul of goods for that number of stacks, but it was better than the results I had Saturday. Bone chips have dropped in price considerably, which doesn't help my cause either. Today, spent 52k on greens, made about 90k in profit. Right now, trolls will be entering Al Zahbi soon (about an hour from now), so I'm waiting for them to show up so I can get some sleep.

I don't think I'm going to get much digging done this week prior to vacation that I would like. Had a death on mom's side of the family over the weekend (this one everyone knew it was coming it was just a matter of when) and I have to go to the funeral visitation monday and the funeral itself on tuesday. I got first cousins coming in for this, and some I haven't seen in years so I'm going to try to visit with them while I got a chance.

On a positive note, Sandy claimed Sarutabaruta on the Remora server for the second time ever. This one I wasn't expecting, but its nice to have 200 gil outpost warps to Windy again.

tired

i got home from my niece's recital in time for early waxing crescent, but this one was in middle of jp primetime and on a weekend. as a result there were tons of diggers out. since it was very late at night, I only did 20 stacks with lackluster results, then went to bed. I was very tired.

TGIF, sorta

Just went past 600 stacks into my digging rank tonight. Only 700-1000 stacks to go at the very least til I ding again. I doubt I will ding before leaving on vacation next weekend, because aside for one or two days in the past 2 weeks I have done little digging due to real life stuff and those recent besieges.

I have pulled up 8 grain seeds (to finish off a stack), stack of mythril beastcoins, and 4 darksteel ore while digging today in gustaberg region, along with 6 stacks of bone chips. However, for some reason, undercutters have hit bone chip prices hard and the other stuff on AH hasn't sold yet.

Last night our server lost besieged for the first time, to the undead swarm. Lack of peeps (only 200 in Al Zahbi where there is usually 500-600 peeps) and starting with 3 serpent generals did not help matters out at all. The Astral Candescence was recovered about 4 hours 20 minutes after undead took it. I was praying that a new besieged would take place sometime during the last quarter moon tonight but I guess not.

yay

I got home in time from the store for the start of early waxing crescent. Competition was fierce, but I made one of my successful digs count



That one happened on the 460th stack of my current digging rank. Very first elemental ore I ever dug up. I expect more in the near future, even though it probably won't happen for a few days at least.

chocobo stables in al zahbi opening soon

just found out that SE is opening chocobo stables in Al Zahbi next month following the version update. soon it will be time to bring in greens and see what new items can be dug up.

parser now works, more post-maint besieged

b/c of a second day in a row of emergency maintenance, the besieged timers were reset again and guess what, I had to be in the thick of 3 besieged back-to-back-to-back. our server managed to win all 3 of them at the expense of just 9 prisoners but 3 of them were serpent generals and 1 warp taru. Got ~1950 IS from the 3 besieged (didn't get the max the first one b/c of lack of curing in part b/c one of the serpent generals I had targeted was one-shotted by a TP move of a mob), which I'm starting to stack up again for future use later.

i did managed to do 30 stacks today. would done more but the moon phase wasn't favorable (i hate digging during quarter moon). dug up a red rock that turned into a garnet, a darksteel ore, a gold beastcoin, enough bone chips for 2 stacks, and enough mythril beastcoins to finish off a stack. not the best digging results in the world, but hopefully SE would quit pulling off screwballs and I can get back into an rhythym that I was pulled out of thanks to real life and emergency maintenance.

parser working again

for now, I'll have to record the stacks by hand. the dig parser software broke last night and I had to delete those logs as a result. the parser started working again after I cleaned out the logs, but now i'll have to add 420 to the "stack total" until I hit my next digging rank.

besieged

4 besieged in a 6 hour period, and all of them were as brutal as you can get. our server nearly lost the AC twice. the game was also down for 2 hours for emergency mainteance around 2pm as well.

i haven't did any digging today. parser software broke and I can't get it back up and running.

tons of afk time

thanks to some real life, i been afk a lot on thursday and friday. had a doctors appointment on thursday and I only got 30-40 stacks in as a result. I didn't do much at all Friday because I did 2 besieged and had to help out around the house. Don't expect me to much digging at all tomorrow due to the fact my niece is having her first birthday party.

In the past two days I pulled up platnium ore, gold ore, and 3-4 darksteel ore. Not the greatest profit considering the lack of digs I did.

high competition but good haul

for some reason competition was high for a tuesday and early waning crescent isn't for another 18 hours. despite that I snuck in altep and pulled in 3 platinum ores and 1 phiolosopher's stone. pulled in another darksteel in north gustaberg. pretty much didn't do much more digging except briefly around sandy as it was last quarter moon and my luck with that moon phase has not been that great.

12:30 am and i'm going to bed early. i don't feel well at all tonight.

full moon, full of crap

i did 110 stacks today got several darksteel ore and 8 elm logs, but i saw the efforts of 5 weeks of diging for profit go down the drain on just 1 synth tonight on full moon darksday in sandy:



5.9M right down the drain, and that would been used on my 57 thief had it been successful.

Now a craftsman rank digger

After 1103 stacks of ghysal greens, I hit craftsman rank digging (A30). This came as a surprise to me because I was not expecting to hit the rank until I used at least 1200 stacks of greens because the last rank came just after I hit 1000 greens. I have noticed a big difference on dig accuracy and I even pulled up another cactus stem.

difference a day makes

yesterday was brutal. today was much better. 3 stacks of mythril beastcoins, 2 stacks of grain seeds, 8 darksteel ores, 1 cactus stems, and 8 stacks of bone chips today on 110 stacks of greens. Dig accuracy went from 42.24% to 43.15%. I'll do another 30 stacks before I call it a night as first quarter moon will begin in 5 hours and digging tends to go to pot during that moon phase.

little bastard

chocobo dig success rate went from 42.89% to 42.24% today despite the lack of competition. last quarter moon phase put the biggest chunk into it, but me being a bit greedy also played a role. the only saving grace was pulling up 3 darksteel ore in north gustaberg and digging enough mythril beastcoins to finish off a stack. the bad news was i pulled up only 2 bags of grain seeds today, after pulling up 9 yesterday.

crafting day

i opted to do crafting today and its one of the reasons i only did 35 stacks of greens. i farmed lighting clusters in carpenters landing as it is middle of thunder elemental season so i could desynth bronze leggings for bronze ingots. after getting 8 stacks of bronze ingots, i got alchemy mule from 69.4 to 71.9 on venom bolt heads before i ran out of bronze ingots. i went back on main character, digging wasn't going that great tonight but had dug up enough materials to craft some HQ versions of low level gear. wound up going 2/3 on bone harness +1, 1/1 on bone mask +1, 2/3 on bone knife +1 (this one for a linkshell member). lost 30k on the greens for the day but made a 180k profit just by crafting what i dug up. i'm still waiting on the auction house to hurry up and sell (and i got rosewood/ebony/mahogany lumber stacks priced to move on the sandy AH) so I can return to Kazham (though I won't return there before Sunday evening).

really hate the AH

not only bone chips did not sell today, the prices were cut in half. oh well, I dumped them all on my alchemy mule (now 69.3) and turned them into animal glue for an upcoming skillup synth.

the good news is that the lumber is selling. the stack of coral fungus i finished off also sold within minutes of being listed. Prices of those items have gone down too but not by much.

almost 800 stacks down, another 400 to 700 to go.

damn AH

i'm sitting in Jeuno waiting on the god damn AH to hurry up and sell. High turnover crap on the AH and none of it is moving. I swear I got nearly 500k to 600k of stuff waiting to go on AH.

That one bot wasn't in altepa, so I snuck in a few stacks there as competition was high. I wound up with 4 wyvern scales, 3 gold ores, and a philosopher's stone. I did not do more than 10-15 stacks due to 2 other diggers in the area, so I left. I dug in Bastok long enough to finish off a stack of mythril beastcoins.

returned to jungles

the jungles cooled down in competition, due in part of 30+ stacks of bone chips on the AH in windy and suddenly not moving like they should. In addition, its the middle of the week so not everyone gets the online time they get on the weekend. I pulled up 10 stacks of bone chips, and so many logs I can't count.

I'm about through the halfway point of my digging rank. Still have 600 to 900 stacks to go before I'll move up in rank, though.

long day of partying

today I was gone until 8 pm. I spent all day attending 2 parties involving relatives. Not my cup of tea, but at least it was a very nice day, and I ate too much food.

I didn't start digging until 9 pm. It was early waxing crescent, which means all the hardcore JP diggers had were going to be in force despite the fact it was noon Monday over there. At least we made the digbots life a living hell for a few hours because they deserve it.

I went into Kazham, which doesn't have a lot of diggers right now, but the zones are being stubborn in loading right now. I'm not in a hurry, though, as 37 stacks of bone chips were already up on the Windy AH right now which means I'm either putting them on Jeuno or waiting. The only big thing I hate about Kazham is the fact there is a glitch that causes me to fall through the wooden planks from time to time. I sent complaints to SE over this and I don't get a honest response.

another rough day

the good: 3 petrified logs, 3 ebony logs, 1 king truffle, 8 mahongany logs, 5 rosewood logs, 5 stacks of bone chips
the bad: only 4 elm logs all day and i blew up one of them when breaking bast parchment synth
the ugly: aside from the one session in the jungle, digging results were pathetic. I gave up after 70+ stacks of greens. being AFK for over 6 hours during the evening to clean house did not help matters.

nasty run

I did about 100 stacks today, but results weren't that good. I made about 200k in profit today if I was lucky to make profit at all. 2 stacks of mythril beastcoins, 1 darksteel ore, and 10 stacks of bast parchment (from elm logs) were the best digs. The chocobo was either stubborn, or the goods I put on the AH were moving much slower than they should have.

Bad news is that I won't be doing much digging over the weekend. I got real life stuff both days and I'll be AFK a lot.

short night

because I wasn't home most of the day and we had storms during the evening, I did not get online until 9PM. I did about 50 stacks of greens but the results were so-so, thus I called it quits early tonight. I got long day tomorrow, so I need to sleep.

pounded out the bast

today i noticed that bast parchment was sold out on sandy AH, so I focused most of my efforts on digging Konschtat digging elm logs (with some used in Pashhow and Valkrum). I used about 75 stacks of greens today (could use more but had other things to get done), came out with 20 Elm Logs, 1 Petrified Log, but just 5 mythril beastcoins and only 2 colored rocks. I did pull up 2 gold beastcoins in one of the first digging runs as I found neither dig botter paying attention to the windy-jeuno route. My digging drew one of them on that route, but not before the damage was done.

the dig accuracy was so-so, but I made the successful ones count when it mattered the most. Only lost 1 Elm Log when crafting the bast parchment, and all but 4 stacks I made today have already sold.

Must get up early in the morning and have to miss Early Waxing Crescent digging b/c of a doctors appointment which is a bummer.