Mining HQ Items. Bug with Unburied II?

[Kieren-Dohla]

I a level 50 miner. I know that doesn't make a difference with the chance of getting an HQ item because everyone who mines regardless of level for a specific item has the same chance of getting HQ items as long as the meet the minimum perception requirement and aren't using abilities to change the odds.

My issue is this: More often than not, I can get overall more HQ items at times on a deposit with a 15% chance of yielding an HQ item when I don't have the GP to cast Unburied II. Unburied II raises the chance by 30% so it would be 45 percent for a lot of things mostly.

Now I know we are dealing with random chance here, but it just seems to me that there is something funny about how many HQ items can be mined when the deposit has a 15% chance versus 45%. And on deposits that already have a 5% bonus when I cast Unburied II the chance of getting HQ items is 50%. But it never seems to work out that way.

[Astarica]

You're simply not going to have a very big sample size with Unburied 2 since 500 GP takes a while to accumulate. Since you're mining something like 10 times the nodes at 15%, it's easy to imagine the lucky nodes of that batch can be even better than the very few you mined with Unburied 2.

[Kieren-Dohla]

Actually Unburied II is 300 GP.

But you are probably right about the sample size. I understand probability. It just seems odd is all how many times I seem to get more on a node with 15% than with Unburied II at 45%.

But I know we (or maybe just me) naturally tend to get a skewed view of things even if we understand probability. I think it's partly human nature. For instance, it's a known fact that people over value coincidences when they are bound to occur.

[Astarica]

Oh yeah, I was thinking of King's Yield 2, which I always have spectucularly bad results whenever I decide to try to save up 500 GP and give it a shot.

[NamiSwan]

In mining HQ items , everything effect your gathering rate (e.g. Gear Condition,Food,Gatherer Materia) and so on. Check your gear statues before you start gathering.

Even with gear 50% condition can effect your gathering drastically and get miss in higher lvl nods.

[Hwasung]

In mining HQ items , everything effect your gathering rate (e.g. Gear Condition,Food,Gatherer Materia) and so on. Check your gear statues before you start gathering.

Even with gear 50% condition can effect your gathering drastically and get miss in higher lvl nods.

Citation needed.

[Kanash]

Citation needed.

I second that...

The only time gear condition affects your performance in crafting/gathering/combat, is when it reaches 0%.