dunes chocograph

I got my dunes chocograph this morning, went digging in valkrum dunes, and ended up with the usual 100% piece of crap. the digging results in kazham were better, but no reishi mushrooms have been dug out of yhoator for quite some time.

I won't be digging the next early waxing crescent. I have to work during this time, and by the time I get home that moon phase is over.

I am looking forward to chocobo racing (bred my mule's chocobo for that purpose) but that six hour maintenance on Wednesday going to suck. I'll be gone for 5 of the 6 hours due to work, however.

slept in til 14% waxing, paid off

when i woke up today 14% waxing crescent was up, and so was thunder in carpenters' landing. I called DoreAvenger and thunder weather soon ended but it was still cloudy so I continued digging. Soon, I pulled up a Water Ore. It was the only elemental ore I pulled up before fatigue hit, but it was icing on the cake after a digging session that featured 14 Oak Logs.

coastal chocograph

i failed to dig up elemental ores on Tuesday evening, but that night did not go to waste. I finally got a coastal chocograph and I did hot and cold game with that chocograph, and came up with whistle coupon. Wednesday in the jungles was uneventual but again got my usual dose of crap with hot and cold game. Thursday got more crap but should have enough successful digs for dunes chocograph.

Luck of the Irish

after being shut out of elemental ores during early waxing crescent for the past 2 months (although work caused me to miss a couple of them), the latest early waxing crescent occurred during the early afternoon hours of St. Patrick's Day. I put on my green clothes, and went into Pashhow Marshlands at 10% Waxing Crescent. It wasn't until 21:00 until the water element finally came up but I had no competition and in less than 15 digs later my chocobo DoreAvenger came up with an Fire Ore. Well, a short time later a new game day happened and boom an Earth Ore. This is the first time I have pulled up 2 elemental ores in a single digging session, much less on the same chocobo whistle call. This is a yield of just under 400k profit in just two digs, by the time those ores sell.

I uploaded screenshots at my FFXIOnline photo gallery, since the other FFXI screenshot viewing site seems to be down.

sigh

after maintenance screwed us out of the past early waxing crescent, I was so thankful for the next one coming on my day off from work. with thunder elemental season underway in Carpenter's Landing I went there, but came out with only 9 oak logs and 4 elm logs for the trouble. While I made a profit today, its going on 2 months since the last elemental ore was dug up.