Just have to rage

I got rank 19 as a miner and 90% of the nodes I mine I damage the ore on my first strike and i have over 80 vit and the best gear for mining and I don't know why I keep damaging it!!!! ARGH

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Originally Posted by Noctix

I got rank 19 as a miner and 90% of the nodes I mine I damage the ore on my first strike and i have over 80 vit and the best gear for mining and I don't know why I keep damaging it!!!! ARGH

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You hit Surplus in mining :) there a limit how much you can mine.

2.500 is your limit each time you get a item it take 10 point alway so you can do the math how many item you can get before you hit surplus you regain points back every few hours. so you need to stop mining and do something else while you wait :)

OK thanks alot, because I was just owning at mining then started sucking everytime without fail lol

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Originally Posted by Noctix

OK thanks alot, because I was just owning at mining then started sucking everytime without fail lol

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ya the limit don't let you get any more items it's for RMT lol. just have to deal with it too they do something about it.

Speaking of raging...anyone else get a crapton of Zinc ores in Grade 5?....I do and i'm fed up of getting zinc mainly when i'm aiming at gold, silver or mythril. I understand giving us too much of one type would flood it but c'mon, zinc ores? really?...

Essential for making brass, but yeah, I feel it too.

I just wait till I hit a stack of 99 zinc ore then sell to NPC for gil. +2/+3 goes in the retainer for brass production or eventual bazaar sale.

Think of it this way - if you mined mythril easier and more frequently, it would be worth far less. Every zinc brings you closer to a mythril and makes that mythril more precious.

lol if i only could get in that mindset, there's just too much zinc. I call it the plague ore @_@

Hq Zinc + Hq Copper = Hq Brass Nugs

Hq Brass Nugs x5 + LUCK = HQ Brass ingot


HQ Brass ingot = better odds to get HQ scimitar :)

Lol it sure does, but it's now overly abundant to get zinc and is just way too annoying. I'd rather penalize myself the SP by having to go down in grades of deposits just to get a lower class ore than to have it plague my higher tier deposits. To me it's shameful to get something so low on a higher grade, especially when i'm so close to cap!

its not the zinc thats annoying its the difficulty of getting copper compared to zinc XD

Oh, man. Go to Camp Skull Valley, strike at +3, and you'll get more than enough copper ore. For the longest time, I only mined there, and it seemed like I was never getting anything but copper. I actually left to go find zinc.

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Originally Posted by Maxion

Speaking of raging...anyone else get a crapton of Zinc ores in Grade 5?....I do and i'm fed up of getting zinc mainly when i'm aiming at gold, silver or mythril. I understand giving us too much of one type would flood it but c'mon, zinc ores? really?...

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Do you mine around Iron Lake? I've found alot more mythril/gold sand there vs. zinc ores and the like. Have a rotation where I go for wyvern obsid/black oysters, mythril, and gold sand there. Seem to get alot more zinc if I try around Coerthas.

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Originally Posted by Radaghast

Do you mine around Iron Lake? I've found alot more mythril/gold sand there vs. zinc ores and the like. Have a rotation where I go for wyvern obsid/black oysters, mythril, and gold sand there. Seem to get alot more zinc if I try around Coerthas.

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I mine at Iron Lake & Treespeak if i want iron/mythril. Halatali for Gold...i've had extremely good luck there with gold. Otherwise I just go where somethin shiny is found lol.

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Originally Posted by VydarrTyr

Oh, man. Go to Camp Skull Valley, strike at +3, and you'll get more than enough copper ore. For the longest time, I only mined there, and it seemed like I was never getting anything but copper. I actually left to go find zinc.

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Indeed, to get copper you need to go back to lower grade nodes. The lack of SP once you're higher ranked may be a put-off, but it's the only way to get that copper in bulk. >_>

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Originally Posted by Catapult

Indeed, to get copper you need to go back to lower grade nodes. The lack of SP once you're higher ranked may be a put-off, but it's the only way to get that copper in bulk. >_>

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And in essence it makes sense to have to back track to get ores, which is what i suggest they do in the same regard to zinc. I'm sorry but something i got an over-abundance of in grade 2 should not be equally abundant, necessarily even there, in grade 5...our current highest grade.

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Originally Posted by VydarrTyr

Oh, man. Go to Camp Skull Valley, strike at +3, and you'll get more than enough copper ore. For the longest time, I only mined there, and it seemed like I was never getting anything but copper. I actually left to go find zinc.

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I know you can get plenty from low level areas, but the original quote was talking about zinc at grade 5, I just meant that you get tons of zinc there but no copper making the zinc useless. similarly with gold sand when you stop getting silver sand.

And as mentioned if you are going to go back to grade 2 where you are goign to get even more zinc, you might as well make the zinc less available grade 5. I have always had an over abundance of zinc compared to copper

Did you try setting the gauge at different levels? If you mine on each notch for long periods of time you'll find certain items become less or more abundant. You can solve the too much zinc problem if you figure it out. In grade 5 grid I get primarily silver, gold, and iron. For me zinc in LL areas didn't pop up until grade 4 and is still rare as gemstones at iron lake. Am I lucky? Maybe...

Doesn't matter what notch i have it on, i end up getting a crapton of zinc. LL is my safe-haven from zinc...ul'dah and gridania hate me and plague me with it.

i always aim for either gold or mythril for obvious reasons

i currently just run around all crazy like with 2 stacks of NQ gold ore in my bazaar...just holding on to it of course.

It would be nice that instead of removing zinc/copper/tin whatever from high grades you got +2/3 ores more often than not.

Absolutely agree with this... even if I hit the direct spot of the ore it just gives me "You damaged the ore" instead of giving me a second shot or mining it.

this happens quite frequently on the first hit, when i have plenty of the "remaining" bar left.

Read the next post down. It's surplus.

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Originally Posted by VydarrTyr

Read the next post down. It's surplus.

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the english is broken and makes no sense.