Beginner's Guide to Mining?

[nyttyn]

S N I P

For Crystals and Clusters, Aetheral Reduction is leagues faster than mining for them raw, and you can't really use the elemental skills. And it's extremely easy to do aetheral reduction. Just get to 60 (takes like a week or less of even super casual play) and use a trailbalzer set if you're poverty tier.

And while it's true fire/electric clusters are the only you can get from it as a miner, it's still w a a a y faster to mine those and sell them for the other four elements. I mean you can get like 15 clusters per unearthed node - oooor hundreds of clusters from a single 4x aetheral reduction (literally hundreds, I average 300-320) which takes like two-five minutes at the very most if RNG hates you.

it's not a contest.

[Roth_Trailfinder]

Yes, but he's talking about leveling miner and botany up, not about being 60 already.

[Invision]

if you have excess grand company seals you can buy survivor manuals that will boost your xp a lot, you can use them while farming the popular mats so you can make some good xp and cash at same time.

since gathering can be boring you have to spice it up some. buy npc gear and spiritbond it, gather materia is in high demand across all servers. most cant be bothered bonding low level gear for tier 2 materia so you can make some quick gil (which will easily pay for the npc gear) and rebond another set. keep doing this until you get to 60 so you have more than 1 reason to level (exp).

at this point you are swimming in materia, now you can max meld yourself for free.