grrrr

another early waxing crescent, went to batallia, no competition, earth weather, and what do i get? 3 tree cuttings, enough iron ores to make 2 iron ingots and a steel ingot, and 4 wildgrass seeds. no elemental ores but at least i made a little profit.

buburimu

tahrongi had a competitor already present, so I went into buburimu. Pulled up coral fragment and platinum ore, two items that are difficult to pull up there.

Early waxing crescent will hit right before bedtime for me, but right after JP midnight time. I expect heavy competition in the morning.

hot and cold connects

I did hot and cold today and after several days of crappy results, I finally got an alum. ore from the game today. However, I was unable to dig during early waxing crescent early Friday morning due to work, but was able to dig up orich. ore in Rolanberry before I left for my overnight shift.

better yields

The last 2 days of hot and cold games were successes, but no whistle coupon or alum. ore to show for it. I went to tahrongi today to dig and came up with 5 demon horns, gold ore, 2 gold beastcoins, and 3 demon skulls.

bummer

today i go back to night shifts at work, but I made sure to wake up for early waxing crescent. I kinda wished I just slept through it, as DoreAvenger started being very stubborn after it pulled up 70 items. No elemental ores, but couple demon horns and HQ pugil scales in Tahrongi for the trouble.

saturday

i got a rare weekend off, and I went digging on Full Moon Darksday in Tahrongi today. I came out with 2 Demon Skulls and 5 Gold Beastcoins with DoreAvenger, the rest of the stuff wasn't worth mentioning. I did record a video but having problems with editing it with Windows Movie Maker right now.

treasure finder

finally I got those blasted cutscenes and the key item that allowed me to teach treasure finder to DoreAvenger. First story (after eating 40k on chocoexilir) attempt and it learns it.

I did another game of hot and cold and it yielded in crappy results. I went chocobo digging in the mountains and pulled up alum. ore with bore (which is very hard to do even at A20).

tahrongi today

Today i kept my promise and took my chocobo DoreAvenger (average discernment, bore) to a different zone, and it was Tahrongi Canyon. The chocobo simply amazed me: dragon scales, 3 demon skulls, 2 wyvern scales, 3 gold beastcoins, gold ore, 2 titanicus shells, 2 demon horns, and 2 high-quality pugil scales in 12 stacks of greens (on 21% waning crescent darksday). The dragon scales totally surprised me as it has the same difficulty of pulling up as an elemental ore.

hot and cold

today, another game of hot and cold with slightly better results: gausebit grass and fresh mugwort.

i decided to take the black one out digging today in pashhow marshlands (that has bore) and got tons and tons of crystals and no yellow ginseng or wildgrass seeds. I been trying for treasure hunter as it second ability. I'll be at another zone come tomorrow after I get home from work.

Mule's chocobo had strength rise to outstanding, but the endurance stat been stuck on outstanding for some time.

bah

i went into buburimu yesterday as there were diggers already sitting in Pashhow waiting for the moon phase to change yesterday night. I had that zone all to myself with wind element up. I used my chocobo and got 4 spider webs, 2 demon horns, 1 demon skull, 5 red moko grass, and no elemental ores.

Today I went back to the marshlands hoping for more wildgrass seeds. The results were tons of crap: 1 wildgrass seed, no tree cuttings, 5 mythril beastcoin, and inventory full of junk.

I been doing hot and cold game every day and I either get failures are 100% piece of crap items.

more pashhow digging

for the third straight day, i went into pashhow marshlands to target wildgrass seeds. I wound up with 5 today. I'll be staying up later than normal tomorrow as early waxing crescent will happen around bedtime. At least I don't have to be at work until 07:45 in the morning.

I also made this after I got back in the game:

sunday maintenance

the evil empire strikes again. regularly scheduled maintenance. . . on a Sunday! It never fails, they had to schedule it on my only day off. I haven't gone digging yet today, but here is a little image of the chocobo that my Sandy mule is raising.

i'm back

I got my new computer on Thursday afternoon and hooked it up after I got home from work. I had to wait til Friday morning before leaving for work, however, to check on my chocobos. The one on my main character pretty much behaved, although slightly behind on the discernment stat. The one on my mule, had outstanding and impressive stats in strength and endurance, but hated me and did not obey commands. I'm working on getting both whipped back into shape. I'll explain more at a later time.

I went digging on Friday night, as I did not had time to do so during Friday morning because of work (which also caused me to miss early waxing crescent). The results weren't amazing. Today, I went in same area and came out with 3 Tree Cuttings and 2 Puffballs.

Its a long time

Sorry for the long layoff. My computer died on 8 December and I have been off the game since. The good news is the fact my new computer has been ordered and I'll be back online sometime late next week if all goes well.