The greatest early waxing crescent session ever

I set a few new records on 7% Darksday Early Waxing Crescent in the wee hours of Monday morning



The 5th Dark Ore came on successful dig 100. The first 3 came in the first 10 stacks of greens. The ores came from digging in 2 different zones.

This is the first time I have ever pulled 2 in a row, and the first time I pulled 5 in a session. I have never seen more than 3 in a session until then.

lucky la thiene

I get home from work in time to dig at 19% waxing, so I went back to La Thiene (woodworking mule needs all the Chestnut Logs I could get to make HQ beetle jugs), and wind weather pops soon after. Not long after the digging starts, 2 more ores are pulled up.

2 earth ores

I was planning on digging on Windsday, but 25+ Wind Ores already on the AH made me change my digging plans. Since my Lightning Ore from the week before still hasn't sold (actually I haven't even listed it on the AH because there were 12 of those already up), I had to dig on Earthsday. 105k value and only 6 ores up on the AH, time to rake in some money. I got rewarded with 2 Earth Ores accordingly, which came on the 71st and 86th successful digs.

Labor Day success despite it being weekend to work

I pulled up 3 ores over the entire Labor Day weekend, because the timing came at when I could do it (despite the fact it was my weekend to work). 2 fire ores in Buburimu on Friday and a lightning ore in pashhow on Monday. It was well worth the lost sleep I suffered Friday morning and the lack of sleep I got on Monday afternoon.

woke up, get ore

I woke up in time to come away with 1 earth ore during the most recent early waxing crescent.

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Its been a while. 200 chances to dig up elemental ores, got away with nil.

heating up

during most of february my chocobo was on a dry streak, then last friday it came away with an fire ore (it was 96th or 97th successful dig) at 10%. (No screenshot of this one, I forgot to turn on Fraps and I'm now using official windower.)

I didn't go to work monday night because of an ice storm, but early tuesday morning I was praying that the power would just stay on. It did, and I got myself 2 wind ores at 7% for my reward. The second wind ore came on my 100th successful dig.

I set my alarm clock today so I could dig at 21% waxing, which was lightningday, because lightning ores are going for much more than the other elemental ores. I got two before fatigue, so I made a major profit.

lot to catch up

good news is that elemental ores went back up in price, but the bad news is that I have been on a dry streak for the past 3 weeks. I either had to miss it due to work or failed to dig one up. I don't have a lot of spare time right now, though, since work went back to 8 hour shifts. I am looking forward to the next version update, however.

4 more ores

Today was a chance to get 200 digs in during early waxing crescent (due to the JP midnight falling on a favorable time), well I pulled up 2 ores during the time, Wind Ore at 17% in Pashhow (Water Element) and a Dark Ore at 7% in East Ronfaure (during Fog). The Wind Ore came in on successful dig #94 after the JP midnight.

I decided to dig at 21% waxing, even though I never had any success at that moon phase in the past. I was surprised to see this in Pashhow, also during the Water element:
I was supposed to work over the weekend but a fever with strep throat kept me home all weekend. Oh well, I was able to dig during this early waxing crescent and pull this with the 97th successful dig of the day:

Aside from this, I have done little digging because I got the new WoTG expansion nearly 2 weeks ago and I been wasting more time leveling Scholar and doing Campaign Battles.

ronfaure

After Tohma was bragging about his light ore haul on Sunday, I decided to give Ronfaure a try the next early waxing crescent. Thankfully, I did not have to work or sleep during that time. This phase did not fall on iceday, thankfully, as I would had just went AFK during that game day.

It was Darksday, and Dark Ores go about the same price as Light Ores go for. So I went for some and wound up with this within 20 digs:




I continued to dig during the cloudy weather but got no more ores after that.

tohma and ice ores

Yesterday I was having a quick conservation with a fellow competitor called Tohma. He was getting tired of the price decline of elemental ores, namely the Ice Ores. Well the RMTs ditched digging and went to elemental ore gardening in recent months, usually going for Ice Ores as the failure of that tree sapling recipe is an item that sells to NPC vendor for ~1600 gil and each sapling plant yields about 4-8 of them on failure.

Even though I was getting an extra hour of sleep, I went to bed rather early after dumping excess stuff (BST and some PLD) gear to one of my mules. I woke up on Iceday but did not dig as Ice Ores sell less than Orich. Ores right now. I dug on Lightningday, which is right before JP midnight but failed to pull up any ores before fatigue. I mostly got crap except for enough mythril beastcoins to finish off a stack. After JP midnight passed it was lightsday, so I hit teleport-dem to the highlands after water element quickly ended in Rolanberry, as lightning was up. Within 5 or 6 digs I got an light ore, and the zone quickly ran dry after that with nothing else digging up of note. I went back to Rolanberry as the water element came back up but wound up with tons of crap.



Couple weeks ago, I was forced to dig at 7% again, got a single wind ore for my troubles - it was fitting as it was the first elemental ore since the end of August.

Just as I was getting ready to head off for church, Tohma told me he pulled up 2 light ores in Ronfaure in foggy weather. He skipped Iceday as well.

a lot to catch up

despite all the crap going on at my job, I been able to make early waxing crescent sessions for the past 2 weeks, even if it means having to crawl out of bed sooner than normal. On the 15th, I woke up an hour early to do this before work in Jugner Forest, even though it was the one day of the week I really didn't want to do it (Iceday):




I got nothing during the early waxing crescent that took place the ensuing weekend, partially due to the fact it wasn't elemental season in Jugner/Carpenters.

The next early waxing crescent was on August 22 right before JP midnight time, so I had a chance to do 200 successful digs during that moon phase. Due to the timing, however, I had no choice but to dig during 7% (where I never have success) but I was surprised to see this shortly after digging:


However, it was the only ore of that session, due to very high competition (every high level JP A10 digger was pretty much accounted for). Pashhow remained dug out for the rest of that moon phase.

I got home from work the ensuing Saturday just in the for early waxing crescent, so I went to Jugner as elemental season was starting to take shape. I failed to pull up ores, but made a little profit off Oak Logs and Mistletoes.

Then it comes today. Moon phase was in middle of the night/early morning hours. I decided to crawl out of bed at 05:00 CDT because I'll be waking up at that time for the rest of the week due to work. I quickly get enough inventory cleaned out (by muling or putting on AH), and then bought enough greens. I took my chocobo to Jugner at 14% Lightsday, even though there were 20 light ores on the AH. I have yet to dig a light ore myself and this moon phase rarely falls during lightsday, and my given success at 14% in recent session made me do it. It was now Thunder Elemental season, and before long this happened:



It was the only ore of the session. JP midnight is 2 hours away but the moon phase will be over by then.

When it hasn't been the early waxing crescent phase, I been doing time in Rolanberry pulling up 1 to 3 orich ores per run. With the newest update, I expect the ores to go up in price.

fire and water

early waxing crescent came right before JP midnight time, which gave me 200 items instead of the usual 100 items. As a result, competition was expected to be high and I found at least 2 other A10 JP diggers out and about. Thunder elemental season was starting to get going again in Jugner, and at 10%, I made a trip into that zone. One of the competitors manages to dig it out on me, but not before I did the damage: I pulled up Fire Ore at 10%.

My fatigue hits soon after that, so I had to wait for 14%, as JP midnight will pass. Another competitor was already in Jugner/Carpenters, so I decided to check Pashhow after another competitor decided to leave that zone. About 25 digs later, I got an Water Ore.



I was cutting videos during the process but none of it has been edited.

grand total is up

I put the grand total up. It actually took me just over 8700 stacks of greens to cap digging. This number is low compared to what other diggers been talking about, but I believe that the update last July has helped contributed to the low numbers. It only takes me 15-18 stacks of greens to hit fatigue with a rental chocobo, 12-14 stacks with a personal chocobo. With higher success rates, there is higher rates of ranking up.

The last rank, though, was a doozy. It took me 1700 stacks over 4 months to rank up. However, the rank up did happen within my earlier projections of a Summer 2007 ding time.

The first early waxing crescent since the rank up yielded in a bunch of crappy items. The next early waxing crescent is due to happen shortly before JP midnight time on Sunday morning, which means double the chances of pulling up an elemental ore.

A10, at last

Finally dinged A10 today after I got home from work. 1700 stacks of greens from A15 to A10. I'm glad that this 19 month journey that started in February 2006 is over, now I'm going to think about focusing on profit zones whenever possible.

ice ore, at least that slump is over

I managed to pull an ice ore in Jugner during the thunder elemental season that is starting to wind down there at 10% early waxing crescent this morning. (despite what I had on the screenshot, it has actually been just over 2 months since the last time I pulled up an elemental ore.)



The bad news is that I'm still A15 and I'm approaching 1600 stacks into the level.

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since the past month, the digging results have been so-so. Zero elemental ores since the session I have pulled up 3 of them, I still can't pull up Kaolin outside Al Zahbi (and then the price on them and Ebony Lumber started to drop so I don't waste my time out there right now). The past 2 weeks were even worse: I haven't pulled up any Orich. Ore in Rolanberry, and the past 9 or 10 digging sessions I have actually lost money.

I decided to take a day off from digging (based on JP time) earlier in the past week hoping that luck would change, well it hasn't. I noshowed the last early waxing crescent, opting to sleep instead.

I'm closing in on A10, however, but the next two weeks I'm going to have spotty access to the game due to a remodeling project in the house I live. I may just move my PS2 (not hooked up to the internet and no way to get it hooked up b/c dad bought the wrong type of wireless internet system) to the basement and play more Disgaea 2 to pass the time. After next week, I'm moving back to nights at work for at least 2 weeks.

triple the excitement

I got home from work around 01:00 early Sunday morning, waited for moon to hit 12% waxing, and got to work. I been looking forward to this, as I had been shut out for the past 2 months and I had to miss the last 3 windows to dig elemental ores because of work. I went to Batallia at lightningsday, and within the first 6 stacks of greens with a RENTAL chocobo I had pulled out 3 lightning ores during the same earth weather effect.

The all-star crew of JP A10 diggers have been out in the other zones and gotten themselves fatigued while I chose to kill crabs during the 7% to 10%. I just waited and got rewarded.

Since my last update, I'm usually getting 2 orich. ores per session in Rolanberry. They're only 25k a pop now, but usually move within a few hours. I also been inside Wajaoam provided that the stables npc isn't in some cell in the middle of Halvung as it was the case for 8 straight days last week. Ebony Lumber, Petrified Logs, and Adaman Ores have been major sellers as of late, and I get my fair share of them in the woodlands.

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.