<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.

digging time again

another early waxing crescent, another rental chocobo, zero ores dug by the time fatigue set in. the evil empire really nerfed chocobo digging to the point I get zero competition during early waxing crescent (before hand, there was hardcore competition and getting an ore was an accomplishment). On the good side, I did pull up 2 gold beastcoins, so at least I made an profit (also finding a bazaar that had ghysal greens for 40 gil a pop didn't hurt either). SE made digging too restrictive, and they need to loosen up a bit (how about increasing those stacks from 10 to maybe 20-30, because now it will take a year to gain a chocobo digging rank).

I know I should be digging every day but I haven't except for that certain moon phase. I got called back to work and have to report Tuesday. I didn't go meriting this week (opted to farm instead) because my brother just got home from his deployment with the navy. He was gone for 4 months.

I also retired my first chocobo today, but not before I breeded it to couple peeps. I concede the fact it will take couple generations of chocobos before you can really notice a difference. The two major stats you have to focus is endurance and discernment. So when you care, you have to take it on the longest walks that you can and have it either to basic care or listening to music every day for care plans. For feeds, I occasionally give it greens (to get it used to the taste of ghysal greens) and mainly give it carrots or cabbage.

rental birds blow

i hate to admit it, but rental birds were obviously not raised for digging purposes. since that update back in late august, the results with rental chocobos have been as retarded as you can get. my personal chocobo gets better digs and is still Poor on discernment stat. oh course I been raising it for digging purposes, working on discernment and endurance stats as much as I can. The upcoming update will help on that cause.

early waxing crescent finally arrived, but where is that darn weather icon?

Peddlestox has a big grudge against me. third time i traded mermaid parts to him outside kazham, the third time he has screwed me with drops. 2 beastmen seals, fruit seeds, light opal; what the heck? It took me the better part of 2 days to get the items this time around.

I won't be digging the next early waxing crescent. My brother is coming home from his military obligation on Friday just in time for his birthday.

my bird an adult

my chocobo became an adult

this evening was early waxing crescent so i went out to buburimu and called it when windy weather was present. did not end up with elemental ores by the time fatigue set in, but one of the shall shells turned into a black pearl (now going around 25k a pop) and I pulled up 2 turtle shells, so at least I made a profit.

today's result

i went digging in the woodlands shortly after JP midnight time. fatigue did not set in until I was on the 10th and final stack of greens (thank god). Got a fairly good haul with a spider web and 2 ebony logs, but no adaman.

finally got in a xp pt on my THF after waiting 30 hours from the last invite and dinged 64 today.

resumed digging

i resumed digging today after a break

dig 33 items (nothing worth mentioning about) then fatigue set in. this took less than 7 stacks of greens (used a 8th stack to confirm it) for this to happen.

i got 2 mules with wildgrass plants, with pure intentions of cutting costs on some of the feeds. neither mule is ready for harvest yet, as i did the planting on saturday afternoon and moogle has yet to ask for a crystal.

raising new chocobo chick

last week i been working on raising my new chocobo chick, I named Lady III.

I haven't been doing much digging. The chocobo stables manager keeps being taken prisoner, and the profits in other zones have not been back to normal yet.

working

good news is that I got ungrounded

bad news is that I'm working 4 nights a week, and only got time to play the game 3 nights.

gotta leave for work in a hour so I need to get going.

grounded

Having a fight with {Impossible to Gauge} mother is never a good idea.

As a result, I'm grounded from video games until further notice.

liking the new areas

yesterday, pulled up orc. ore and 2 petrified logs in the thickets, and another adaman in the woodlands. fatigue set in after 10 stacks.

today i used up the 5 stacks I still had in the woodlands and wound up with crap.

new areas

today digging fatigue set in shortly after i started on the 13th stack of greens. i did use a few stacks of the 2 of the new zones, got an adaman ore and ebony log, but nothing else amazing from that session. i also pulled up black chocobo feathers, dates, pebbles, moko grass, dried majoram, and blue rocks.

the evil empire strikes

bots lost, but so did us

digging fatigue sets in after 20 stacks of greens?!? WTF?!? 50 stacks would been fair, but 20 stacks was too drastic. Once fatigue sets in, you got to wait til the next JP day before you can dig items again. Lame.