Just have to rage

[VydarrTyr]

Oh, man. Go to Camp Skull Valley, strike at +3, and you'll get more than enough copper ore. For the longest time, I only mined there, and it seemed like I was never getting anything but copper. I actually left to go find zinc.

[Radaghast]

Speaking of raging...anyone else get a crapton of Zinc ores in Grade 5?....I do and i'm fed up of getting zinc mainly when i'm aiming at gold, silver or mythril. I understand giving us too much of one type would flood it but c'mon, zinc ores? really?...

Do you mine around Iron Lake? I've found alot more mythril/gold sand there vs. zinc ores and the like. Have a rotation where I go for wyvern obsid/black oysters, mythril, and gold sand there. Seem to get alot more zinc if I try around Coerthas.

[Maxion]

Do you mine around Iron Lake? I've found alot more mythril/gold sand there vs. zinc ores and the like. Have a rotation where I go for wyvern obsid/black oysters, mythril, and gold sand there. Seem to get alot more zinc if I try around Coerthas.

I mine at Iron Lake & Treespeak if i want iron/mythril. Halatali for Gold...i've had extremely good luck there with gold. Otherwise I just go where somethin shiny is found lol.

[Catapult]

Oh, man. Go to Camp Skull Valley, strike at +3, and you'll get more than enough copper ore. For the longest time, I only mined there, and it seemed like I was never getting anything but copper. I actually left to go find zinc.

Indeed, to get copper you need to go back to lower grade nodes. The lack of SP once you're higher ranked may be a put-off, but it's the only way to get that copper in bulk. >_>

[Maxion]

Indeed, to get copper you need to go back to lower grade nodes. The lack of SP once you're higher ranked may be a put-off, but it's the only way to get that copper in bulk. >_>

And in essence it makes sense to have to back track to get ores, which is what i suggest they do in the same regard to zinc. I'm sorry but something i got an over-abundance of in grade 2 should not be equally abundant, necessarily even there, in grade 5...our current highest grade.

[Eruantien]

Oh, man. Go to Camp Skull Valley, strike at +3, and you'll get more than enough copper ore. For the longest time, I only mined there, and it seemed like I was never getting anything but copper. I actually left to go find zinc.

I know you can get plenty from low level areas, but the original quote was talking about zinc at grade 5, I just meant that you get tons of zinc there but no copper making the zinc useless. similarly with gold sand when you stop getting silver sand.

And as mentioned if you are going to go back to grade 2 where you are goign to get even more zinc, you might as well make the zinc less available grade 5. I have always had an over abundance of zinc compared to copper

[Zangetsu]

Did you try setting the gauge at different levels? If you mine on each notch for long periods of time you'll find certain items become less or more abundant. You can solve the too much zinc problem if you figure it out. In grade 5 grid I get primarily silver, gold, and iron. For me zinc in LL areas didn't pop up until grade 4 and is still rare as gemstones at iron lake. Am I lucky? Maybe...

[Maxion]

Doesn't matter what notch i have it on, i end up getting a crapton of zinc. LL is my safe-haven from zinc...ul'dah and gridania hate me and plague me with it.

[Eruantien]

i always aim for either gold or mythril for obvious reasons

[Maxion]

i currently just run around all crazy like with 2 stacks of NQ gold ore in my bazaar...just holding on to it of course.