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    Player
    Docent's Avatar
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    May 2011
    Location
    Ul'dah
    Posts
    287
    Character
    Cloe Delisle
    World
    Sargatanas
    Main Class
    Goldsmith Lv 60
    To put some numbers up in front, I've been recently gathering lots of cobalt ore (Iron lake) and oak logs (Camp Glory).
    Thanks to the achievements, I can tell that I've hit 912 nodes in Iron Lake so far, and I know I've been there only twice, as stopped both times when gathering fatigue started to show up.

    That means it's around 450 harvests before fatigue starts. Now you can resume discussions.

    Edit #1:
    After chopping trees for slightly above 3 hours non stop, I am starting to see breaks. Napkin maths from my yield tells me I'm at ~455 harvests at the moment. For posterity's sake, I'll now write down my approximate break ratios for the next 17,000 xp (100 harvests, give or take) because I want to hit Bot37 before I leave the area.

    Edit #2:
    So here's my findings after grinding for about one more hour, slugging through fatigue to botanist 37.

    -It took me 130 harvests after the first break to ding Botanist 37.
    -I had a total of 47 breaks in those 130 harvests. A break provides only half XP, and yields no item, shard or dark matter. A break CAN proc special abilities, such as Sweat of Brow.
    -After the 1st break, it took 24 harvests before another showed up.
    -If we only look at the statistics after the 2nd break, the ratio is 46 breaks for 105 harvests, or a 46% break rate.
    -By the 100th harvest, the break rate seemed slightly higher, as one tree yielded 6 breaks out of 7 harvests. It's still just a matter of luck, as I had others with only 2 breaks.
    -Ever since the 2nd break, not a single tree produced 7/7 harvests properly.

    Before the first break, I have gathered:
    233 Chocobo Feathers,
    11 Chocobo Feathers +1,
    371 Oak Logs,
    8 Oak Logs +1,
    422 Oak Branches,
    9 Oak Branches +1

    In those 130 harvests, I have gathered:
    59 Chocobo Feathers,
    74 Oak Logs,
    63 Oak Branches,
    4 Oak Branches +1.
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    Last edited by Docent; 08-15-2012 at 04:17 PM. Reason: Botany Info
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