On Mining

[Natos]

You have to use an ability that takes 300gp to get so to not ruin the economy and also make it a bit harder to obtain higher end gear you need to either pay more or spend some time trying to get these items. What I suggest is maybe a ring that gives +5 more gp per tic or something like that.

[Astropop]

Not to mention to get higher % chance at HQ lvl 50 nodes, having 600 GP really helps. It allows for two 300 gp point abilities to be used, which in turn allows for all attempts to be made at 31% HQ gathering rate. While I agree that GP regen is slow, it is espicially slower when you are grinding out nodes. Regen on the whole is faster if you just wait till you have the points.

[Unowned]

gathering xp is too low, even battle jobs xp faster

@ 39 miner needing 304900 xp hitting black alumen lv 40 item for an avg of 350 xp I need 868 successes to finish the level. Not including HQ finds.

It would also be nice if gathering worked like crafting where you can try to gather items up to 5 levels higher than your current level

[Callaren]

I still feel like adding GP regen would help make it less boring (how many circles can I do before I get nauseous?) and be able to use abilities to get more successful hits on nodes and HQ pieces, which in turn makes getting exp easier. I do think that the exp per hit would still need to go up some to even it out with other classes still. Again, my goldsmith is almost 31 and my miner is level 26, and I only got to 26 by grinding mining leves, about 15 of them. It's falling farther and farther behind.

[LaxusLanverLais]

I love mining, picked it up and never put it down. Kinda of nice to just sit there and do hard labor, not stuck in some office.

Also, is it better to go with Blacksmith or Goldsmith? Just curious as I need to start one of those!

[Twix]

Anyone know how to obtain a mining pick again if it was discarded from inventory?!

[Callaren]

Anyone know how to obtain a mining pick again if it was discarded from inventory?!

Most likely a Tools vendor in your starting city, like in the Merchant Strip in Ul'Dah.

[Ed_N_Ants]

Anyone know how to obtain a mining pick again if it was discarded from inventory?!

You can buy it from whoever you sold it to as long as you didn't leave the area or buy it from a vendor... I do believe its under battle gear but not positive

[Natos]

gathering xp is too low, even battle jobs xp faster

@ 39 miner needing 304900 xp hitting black alumen lv 40 item for an avg of 350 xp I need 868 successes to finish the level. Not including HQ finds.

It would also be nice if gathering worked like crafting where you can try to gather items up to 5 levels higher than your current level

Try doing some leves you can get like 10~15k exp just from doing leves at that level.

[Arukai]

Try doing some leves you can get like 10~15k exp just from doing leves at that level.

Compared to the crafting leves, DoL ones are comparatively horrendous.

Okay, my mining is at 36 and my Armorsmith at 40. I can mine 3 HQ Mythril ore for 2100-ish exp.
I can turn that into one HQ Mythril Ingot. There's a 35 leve that requires one mythril ingot. Hand in the HQ - 64,900 + 5kecp for making the ingot yourself. Doing this takes less time than any mining leve I've tried so far. There's also a lvl 25 steel ingot one as well.

That's a big discrepancy. I have suggestions; gathering fates.

Picture this; mining a rampaging adamantoise. You jump on top of it as it thrashes about and you mine what you can from its shell in a five minute timer. When it thrashes every 30sec or so, you hit a special node called "Dig In" to avoid being thrown off, otherwise you gotta go back up a ledge and jump down to it again.

Make them fun! Adventurers want fun!