LVL50 Miner - what gear and materia to spec?

[YUP5588]

Hey All -

Any advice on what gear / accessories to get for LVL50 miner and what materia to meld to each piece? What accessories do you recommend?

Also - any tips on how to get the achievement main hand item?

[Raldo]

1) DoL meld caps
2) Gear should be pretty obvious...? (HQ everything, of course, except mainhand)
• Mainhand: Lv50 MIN class quest reward tool, or Luminary if you're crazy
• Offhand: Militia Sledgehammer
• The Lv50 (iLv55) MIN-specific gear for head/body/hands/legs/feet
• Belt: Raptorskin Survival Belt
• Neck: Raptorskin Choker
• Ear: Electrum Earrings
• Wrist: Militia Bracelets
• Rings: Raptorskin Ring
3) Achievement... go mine stuff? Does it really take an explanation? Fulfill the achievements.

Unless you really like the golden pickaxe, the lv50 MIN quest tool is identical in stats, so I wouldn't waste your time on it.

[Ksenia]

Right now perception is invalidated as 15% is hard cap and you get that with pretty low perception anyway.
Gathering is good, you never see 100% at level. If you can get it to 95% you can hold 100 with the 50 boost action.

CP is your choice. I rarely use it over 400 and would rather spirit bond non gathering jewelry.
I have tried using the 100 and 300 boosts to HQ but that's cap at 50% and my experience with the RnG is you will get whatever with or without that one 50% node every 20 minutes.

[RyuujinZERO]

You only need 340 gathering, 320 perception to achieve 90% gathering chance, 1% HQ chance on unspoiled nodes, and pretty close to 100%/15% HQ on all other nodes. So one option is to actually meld up a set of raptorskin gear and use the same set for all 3 gathering professions, saving you precious armoury space

I'd try and aim for 600gp - this gives you the greatest flexibility when gathering from unspoiled nodes, notably my personal favourite combination of Yield II + Success II for 100% success, and +2 yield (giving a guaranteed total of 25 ore/logs/cocoons from the gravy train nodes)

[Astarica]

320 perception and 600 GP (or 580GP + 20 GP from Lentils, bought from store), rest into gathering.