What's the best method to leveling Miner? With and Without Leves.

[Curcio]

It's kind of hard for me to figure out what's the most productive use of my time. I consider the leve investment worthwhile, to a point. I don't want to spend all of my leves, or even most of them, on mining.

Regarding leves, too, is the fact that I hate the RNG nature of the +% leves. It's something worthy of 1.0s awfulness. Having to sit and wait for my GP to recover just so I can guarantee a +25% is a bummer.

If I'm just mining grinding, what's my best option? I'm currently using EXP manuals and going after stuff my level. Attempts are no longer guaranteed, and even HQ gathers are lower than the 15% chance I'm used to. Should I mine for stuff below my level for guaranteed XP/better HQ? Or should I mine things exactly my level? Stuff above?

Tips, please.

[Hudd]

Hi there, i normally go for items that are around 80% chance of gaining without buffs. You will get roughly around 220 -300 xp per item so with a chain about 1000xp per node which soon adds up. im lv28 miner and have been grinding silver ore lv25 for now.

[BaconNarwhal]

I made a AutoHotKey script to calculate average exp gain per hour base on %, HQ, and base exp per hit.

http://pastebin.com/AftyMijY

As for leves, there are usually 4 types generated randomly. 4 nodes no evaluation, 8 nodes no evaluation, 4 nodes with evaluation, and 8 nodes with evaluation. The best exp per leve is obviously the 8 nodes with evaluation, however those usually require +15% gathering rate to get the max score. The ones with no evaluation usually charges my GP back up to full. I usually do a evaluation leve with a no evaluation so I always have full GP for those evaluation leves.

[Curcio]

Thanks for the tips guys. I just started on silver ore, but that leve tip actually sounds pretty useful.

[StarMarmot]

Have done a fair bit of leves. Using the cordial potions for the 8 node evaluation ones and stacking up GP before hand as was mentioned. While they are good, in retrospect I would have saved my allowances for tradecraft leves where the HQ bonus is just massive (200% increased xp compared to 25% increased xp for a full evaluation mining one). Stopped doing them at around 40, mostly doing electrum then, I got just about enough of it for my goldsmithing by level 47 (I did however go for HQ crafts/leves, would have gotten away with less mining otherwise, though I'd had to grind more wind shards). Any more leves there and I would have had to backtrack anyway. I'd say just go easy on the leves and use one if you need a jump to a higher tier material for your crafts.

If you're just looking to get 50 as fast as you can to sell top end stuff or whatnot, I'd go full out on the leves though.

Also don't forget your buff food. Even the vendor stuff adds up with 3% xp and a bit of useful stats.

It's a rough grind in any case!

[TohruHonda]

Using leves makes mining to 50 a breeze. As I leveled my other jobs I stacked up leve quests and burned through them on my Miner, hitting 50 was a joke and I will do the same thing to level Botanist.

[Cuban]

Using leves makes mining to 50 a breeze. As I leveled my other jobs I stacked up leve quests and burned through them on my Miner, hitting 50 was a joke and I will do the same thing to level Botanist.

Breeze yeah right. People are burning through 70-80 leves and still hit about low 40s.

[Voodoofreak]

I have the same issue. I am lv 34 miner and am currently at mythril ores. I tried the leve quest route, but it really didn't seem faster. Perhaps because I tried that at earlier levels.

[Odd]

I mine once a day to use up my rested XP. I Also add a survival manual bought with seals for from the GC Quartermaster and have a 100% bonus to xp until rested bonus/item buff wear. I'm still getting one level every day doing this and I'm up to 39 now.

[KhalidTheGreat]

Using leves makes mining to 50 a breeze. As I leveled my other jobs I stacked up leve quests and burned through them on my Miner, hitting 50 was a joke and I will do the same thing to level Botanist.

what kind of leves did you do?
Do you choose ones that were your level? Or ones that are a couple of levels below?
Did you only choose the ones with evaluation? And did you always get 25% ?

More details please