Current State of mining

[Somajan]

Before the Easter event: yield = 24-43k a day
Day that the Easter Event ended: yield = 103k
Days after the Easter Even ended: yield = 5k-15k(rarely)


has anybody noticed this sort of trend at all?

My linkshell buddy, who mines in Gusgen, has noticed a sharp decrease in overall profits from mining as well, ever since the easter egg event ended, there have been fewer unique ore drops and a sharp increase in Pebbles and Tin ores. But he tends to get more Darksteel/gold/raw ore than I do, I mine in Yughott btw.

has anybody else been feeling this sort of thing too? Or have I just hit a run of extremely bad luck.

[xShagratx]

yes, That seems to be the case.

[Biterman]

Nope. Everything is the same as always. I still get good ores as often as I did before, no more, no less.

[Elohan]

Hey Somajan, I've seen you a couple of times in the Grotto.

From the two runs I've done since the patch, I have noticed a slight drop in ore quality. I seem to betting more irons though. But gold and darksteel are significantly rarer than before.

At least I can use the irons to lvl my smithing, but if this is another hidden nerf I'm gonna be upset.

First they kill DRGs farming ability, and now mining.

[wicked-jawsh]

I havent noticed much of a change. A few days ago I got ~40k worth of darksteel in 30 minutes! However, since then its been pretty low (only ~30k in several hours and 5 stacks of picks)

[SkuLLy]

i've noticed just recently that i go through 3 stacks of pickaxes in gusgen, and come out with 1 or 2 darksteels, and a crapload of zinc and iron ore.. which normally isn't the case at all.

i thought that perhaps some sort of dumb fishing-type nerf was implemented.. so i zoned from gusgen to konsch to pashow.. ran back and started mining again.. same results.

thought that mebbe there was now a limited amount of ores in the mines on a given day.. went in on lightsday (which is normally my best day for whatever reason) got a whole lot of nothing, logged in konsch, came back 2 hours later (on firesday) and still pulled in a whole lot of nothing.

i'm actually pretty sad right now, going from 40-50k a day mining to barely covering the cost of pickaxes throws off my projected upgrade dates a lil bit.

ps- i am hoping it's just some of my horrible luck striking again. :D

[Kamakazik]

I've gotten better mining results recently...might just be me.

[Moriar]

I've never had good luck mining, and my results have been the same as they have always been. Went with 36 pickaxes to the grotto on Ice Day yesterday, came out with 1 darksteel, 23 irons, and 13 zincs.

[Somajan]

My linkshell members keep getting consistent unique ores, and I haven't struck gold since yesterday (I used to average at least 1 a day).

I'm going to Gusgen.

[Icemage]

I've been noticing that the rare ores have become rarer recently. Went into Gusgen Mines during a Full Moon with 5 stacks of picks and emerged with 2 darksteels and a gold ore in 3 hours (I synthed all the iron into ingots, and a good chunk of the zinc into brass). Oh, and my Throwing skill as a WHM is now 12 from all the pebbles I've mined up...


Icemage

[fitz]

I went mining yesterday on lightsday and then into darksday (33% moon), spent half my time at Gusgen and the other half in the grotto. From 3 stacks of pickaxes, I came out with 4 gold ore from gusgen + iron and a bunch of other stuff, and came out out with 2 gold ore. 1 darksteel and 2 colored rocks from the grotto (tons of zinc and iron as well). Needless to say this was the best mining run to date, but I've been averaging 1 rare ore per stack of pickaxes in gusgen AND in the grotto recently. I used to never get anything from the grotto at all (2 stacks of pickaxes, MAYBE 1 colored rock), but the past 2 weeks I have consistently been getting better ores from there.

So I dunno, my mining production seems to have actually gotten better the past few weeks, so who can say?

[Ajhev]

I rarely mine as I do not do much blacksmithing, however I have noticed that in two stacks of pickaxes I did not get one rare ore wearing field gear. I usually harvest as I like to clothcraft, now this is where I noticed a big difference. Pre patch it was common for me to get 6 pieces of gyshal greens, 2 to 6 pieces of mugwort per stack of sickles, with usually about 2 to 3 stacks of cotton, 2 to 4 stacks of flax, a few caccoons, a couple wijnruit, about 4 to 6 bags of grain/vegitable/herb seeds each, 2 to 3 stacks of moko grass, 2 to 3 stacks of marjoram, and a couple tea leaves. After the patch I average 1 piece mugwort, 2 stacks of flax, 2 stacks of cotton, 1.5 stacks of moko, a couple bags of seeds, 6 pieces wijnruit, a caccoon, a couple gyshal greens, 1.5 stack of tea leaves and about 3 to 4 stacks of marjoram.
Like I said, I'm not too certain about a mining rate drop, but harvesting isn't very profitable now... So maybe this isn't something with just mining, anyone else notice anything with harvesting or logging also?

[Ajhev]

I rarely mine as I do not do much blacksmithing, however I have noticed that in two stacks of pickaxes I did not get one rare ore wearing field gear. I usually harvest as I like to clothcraft, now this is where I noticed a big difference. Pre patch it was common for me to get 6 pieces of gyshal greens, 2 to 6 pieces of mugwort per stack of sickles, with usually about 2 to 3 stacks of cotton, 2 to 4 stacks of flax, a few caccoons, a couple wijnruit, about 4 to 6 bags of grain/vegitable/herb seeds each, 2 to 3 stacks of moko grass, 2 to 3 stacks of marjoram, and a couple tea leaves. After the patch I average 1 piece mugwort, 2 stacks of flax, 2 stacks of cotton, 1.5 stacks of moko, a couple bags of seeds, 6 pieces wijnruit, a caccoon, a couple gyshal greens, 1.5 stack of tea leaves and about 3 to 4 stacks of marjoram.
Like I said, I'm not too certain about a mining rate drop, but harvesting isn't very profitable now... So maybe this isn't something with just mining, anyone else notice anything with harvesting or logging also?

[NGE]

Few days ago I mined up with 3 stacks of picks:

4Darksteel 1GoldOre 4 BlueRocks 1GreenRock 1TransulcentRock
and 12Iron Ores.

Net Profit was about 55k, Mining is the same as ever.

[ifandbut]

I started mining just after the patch. The first few days were great. about 3-4 gold, 2-3 rocks and alot of Iron Tin and Copper, I like the copper and tin because I use to to get my symthing skill up. I took a few days off to lev and went back and now I have been getting almost nothing. My axes seem to break more. I get alot of pebbles, and as a RDM I cant use them....WTF???
But now some of my LS has been starting mining, they mine in Yugrut Grotto<sp?> where I do. I hear them shouting over the LS about "GOLD ORE" "A Red Rock!!!" and "OMG....DarkSteel".
I think/hope I just hit a bit of bad luck too.......:confused: