Veteran Rank Digger - at last

I finally dinged A15 over the weekend, which was nice because the past two weeks have not been yielding good results while digging. The only other highlight was pulling up 2 Adaman Ores in Wajaom and a Whistle Coupon from VCS crate on Friday.

It took me 1314.24 stacks of greens to level up. Just one more digging rank to go, and at least I don't have to worry about focusing on hidden rank up items. Its just pure profit zones from now on.

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.

uneventual week

its been an uneventful week. I spent most of it digging in north gustaberg to pull up darksteel ores for a friend that was leveling up smithing and needed some. i didn't use my chocobo for this like usual, as I did not want to dig up crystals at all.

now with that part over, I'll be heading into kazham this week, as he wants Rattan Lumber, and beastmen have control of elshimo lowlands on our server.

gold ores

last 2 days i dug in altep. 2 alum. ores, 6 gold ores, 4 coral fragments, 4 philo. stones, and 3 darksteel ores later, I felt like I made a good judgment. A little consolation prize for having to miss the upcoming early waxing crescent because of work, but at least I'm over 100k richer as a result. I sold the alum. ores, and saving the others for later (though will eventually sell the stones once I get a stack).

my mule's chocobo will be black :)

so-so

its been a so-so week in chocobo digging. last 2 early waxing crescents yielded no elemental ores. the chocobo is being stubborn about digging up items and as a result i been forced to use 15-18 stacks instead of the usual 11-13 to hit fatigue. today, however, I came up with a very hard to dig up dragon scales (even with a first class discernment chocobo with bore and adept digging rank) and enough turtle shells to break even. I think I made a small profit with the elm logs I dug up the day before too.

i'm still 0 for the good stuff (aside from alum. ores where i'm 2 for) on the hot and cold digging game. all week long its been failures or 100% crap, with the exception of a single fresh mugwort.

competition, whatever

a lot of diggers out today for this early waxing crescent. yes, this was in the middle of JP prime time as it was 3 AM here, but I was able to get about 6 wildgrass seeds, reishi mushroom (rank promotion item), and some other assorted junk yet no elemental ores today. my chocobo also failed at hot and cold game today in Pashhow, so I have to head to a different zone for that game tomorrow.

Getting Elemental Ore through Chocobo Digging

DoreAvenger scores in La Thiene Plateau at 12% Early Waxing Crescent today. It was an icing to the cake that yielded 6 wildgrass seeds and enough iron ores that resulted in a steel ingot. This video is uncut, and I added some music to it.

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.