<3 pashhow

another early waxing crescent (which i had set my alarm clock for this as it began around 16:00, and I had to work tonight), i went into pashhow as water was up (digging in carpenters with lightning didn't yield any ores but enough stuff to break even), and wound up with an ice ore within a minute after zoning.

slow updates

thanks to a new work schedule, my blog updates have been a bit slower. However, I have been making time to dig and check on my chocobo. My second chocobo is an adult now, and if you are on the Remora server it is available for breeding at a negotiable price. I'm still working on raising it for digging purposes, but those NPCs won't give me the key item for the stories (actually they haven't been popping up on those walks, which has been very frustrating). I wished I raised it in Windy rather than Sandy, since one of the most important key items comes from the stables owner in Windy.

I decided last week to change alliegance from Sandy to Windy, so I could do missions. I obtained Portal Charm and worked my way back to Rank 5. I did this to allow me to raise future chocobos in Windy.

Its back to work Monday night. I'll only have Wednesday/Thursday night off this week. The good news is that this is the last week of night shifts and I'll be going back on days.

elemental ore score

water element in pashhow marshlands, 23:37 CDT in earth time, 7% early waxing cresent, scored 1 wind ore.

I still have 70 more items to dig before fatigue hits, maybe I'll score again.

on the other day i did pull up orich. ore in Rolanberry. Digging results have been uneventual as of lately.

the gold assault continues

I been continuing to target gold while digging, and it has been paying off. I'm making about 10k to 40k profit per session (which right now is a huge profit considering of the nerf and deflation), don't have a lot of competition, and it has been my money maker as work has really cut into playtime (gardening has helped to some form but the results have been less as impressive recently).

I hit 400 stacks into my rank today. Only 1600-2100 stacks to go before I hit the next rank. I estimate that I will hit that rank sometime in January or February. I still pray that the evil empire will increase the number of stacks we could dig before fatigue.

I heard that the Bore ability has yielded a more variety of items, but the diggers that have it mentioned that they're only digging up different crystals or different types of logs depending on zone.

gold gold gold

because of work, I had no choice but to miss the elemental ore period as it fell during work hours. I went digging later that evening and despite some competition (Rolanberry was dug up when I tired to dig there), I pulled up 6 gold beastcoins. This permitted me to finish off a stack (which sells for 150k on the AH). I made approximately 50k in profit today, so I am happy.

tgif, kinda

sucks that I have to work when the next early waxing crescent comes by. oh well, I got Rolanberry and Sauromunge to myself today, and pulled up 2 gold beastcoins and 5 coral fungus in 17 stacks of greens.

my mules did 20 vegetable plants and they were ready for harvest. I got 4 stacks of lightning crystals and 6 stacks of frost turnips. Its time to craft goblin drinks for a certain gobbie on Sunday.

more gold

3 gold beastcoins and a gold ore in 18 stacks of greens before fatigue kicked in today.

my new chocobo chick is a male.

some hauls

last night was early waxing crescent. 15 stacks, wound up with mistletoe and 2 oak logs but no elemental ores to show for it .

tonight, fatigue kicked in after 19 stacks (used a 20th to confirm it). today's haul was 4 gold beastcoins, 4 mythril beastcoins, yellow rock, and 3 coral fungus.

I'm not using a parser right now. Stack counts may be off a little bit.

Digging has been a stress reliever. I'm working 6 days a week this month (only getting Sundays off), and as a result my game time been cut. I been using digging (digging as many stacks as fatigue allows) to try to sneak in revenue (and gardening on my mules) as my farming time has been cut to almost zero.

seed digging

I spent the last 2 days (jp time) digging in West Ronfaure targeting Vegetable Seeds (must garden Frost Turnips, not paying 100k for a stack at AH and nobody has control of Valdenuia for the second week in a row - which is very unusual for this server). I need turnips to make goblin drinks on the cooking mule.

I'll probably spend every day this week doing 10-13 stacks of greens after I get off from work.