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Same for me. I think it was probably always a bit overstated, but it's possible that the testimonies were from before Personal Chocobo (200 digs) + Sky Blue Silks (50% more skill per digs? who knows!)

It doesn't take long to knock out a day worth of digs after the first few ranks, so maybe you could cap chocographs and see if that gets you through the first few ranks, then just spam out your 200/day whenever you have time.

Not what I'd observed, but I didn't get an Omen body last night either (did get Regal Gauntlets from Loud if those are the same tier). Also got Epam ring from Loud, several Volte pieces, Odin Gsword, etc. Things I got from Impossible were new to trove - Null cape, TH ring, Dyna crystal, etc. Did get a Sortie Sapphire from Loud I think too :/
Could be that some drops got moved up, could be that they can drop from either.

Sounds like too much of a work (with an overly annoying UI from a 2003 game) for the likes of me, but I guess those hot and cold miniquests are nice.
No Greens required to dig, and they do give potential skillups and are not subject to the ~100 daily limitations.

Sooooo yeah, I guess very nice spot to start with for anyone who wants to do at least some choco digging.

Nope, only the first 2 hits of a WS have a chance to proc multiattack. As far as I can remember from some old BG tests at least.

https://ffxiclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/The_Chocobo_Hot_and_Cold_Game

A lot of digs to rank up, but if you get the skill up silks first it isn't so bad.

So, the question for trove now is go for loud or impossible; if loud, gamble to go impossible or open terminal?

I havent had time to mess much with Hoxne Ampulla since i got it but was wondering if this is a lock the slot with it on and have fun thing. Or do i need to worry about redoing TP and WS sets on jobs that might want to use it? Thinking NIN RDM BLU DRK MNK THF DNC.. Thanks for any insight.

I was expecting time extensions for Cornelia in the 125% and 150% rate upgrades, but appearently this time around we're getting Cornelia for "only" 3 months, correct?

Leveling it to 10 and Chocographs!

What is there to do in Chocobo Digging that gets tracked by the game? Other than the couple of available RoEs.
There's one that requires you to do 30 digging, something else as well that I don't remember probably?

Yes.
Get yourself damaged by surrounding monsters.
Use the martello to restore your HP (this will lower the martello's total health).
Quickly do the "replenish martello health" before it regens above the threshold where it will be too high for you to complete the quest, done.

Easier if you have multiple characters to use at your disposal.
Can't spam it because there's a "cooldown". Once you've used a Martello you can't use another one for X minutes, where X is lowered by certain abyssites iir but I could be wrong.

I don't remember if this limits applies on a per-zone basis or per-martello basis, and I don't remember if zoning in and out of Abyssea resets the timer.


I was missing a few of them a couple of years ago when I maxed all abyssea quests and max reputation in a couple of Abyssea zones, and the one above is the method I used to heal the martellos in an era where pretty much nobody is in Abyssea zones.

The unfortunate consequence of promoting omen bodies to ITG... all of the rest of the escha gear came with it =/

If you run this enough, you'll find that occasionally CS will drop your automaton HP lower than you're comfortable with. You use repair mostly as insurance, but also because oil is cheap and you are not.


I understand the idea of using the best gear you have available to you, but we're talking about dated content that's been on farm for years now. 'Dead inside of overdrive' is about as optimal as most people need it to be.

I had a similar experience in Windurst in Heavens tower. For about 10 years, I just didn't know it had a basement. The depth of the zone is kind of weird, and the winding staircase down to the basement doesn't really stand out from a distance.

Also, Windurst sucks amiright? ...I'm just mad I have to go do the Windurst missions now for Mastery Rank increases. :(

Dagon breastplate w/ impossible to gauge. They turning up them drop rates

Okay, I'm too tired to make it pretty right now but I tracked 30 mars orbs and 18 venus orbs. Two impossible to gauge thuds, both were Dynamis job crystals. Got a mog amplifier as a loud thud drop. Hit triple loud thud twice on the venus orbs (opened a loud thud box while still getting the "You feel like there's a huge sound left to be made." message, and then loud thud terminal. Conversely, I cleared 8/10 boxes four times on the mars orbs, only to get three no upgrades and one gold box (which was a loud thud, at least.) Got a prismatic box at the start of one mars orb though.

Standout drops: Pulse cell: Ay, the one round that gave me three Celaeno's cloths (I had two thuds, so I guess 100% confirmed they're a noise drop? I think the treasure pool actually sorts by noise rating, best noise at the top.) Onyx, lapis lazuli, ruby, light opal, and black pearl share the "are you sure this is supposed to be a prize" award.

Two messages noted, "You feel like there's a huge sound left to be made" and "You feel like there's an impossible to gauge thud left to be made", both of which were seen ending with "." and "...?" not sure what that's about, I've got records of both variants of the impossible to gauge variants building up to a "Looks like your intuition was incorrect."

Frankly, much like with belligerent bangs before them, what these messages really seem to indicate is that the next box you touch will be the mimic.

Of course it's not needed for a maxed out PUP. But hey, not everyone IS fully comfortable with PUP or has the same gear or familiarity.

Honestly, if you're needing Repair at all, you're either doing something wrong or under 100/1200 JP. And if you're under 100/1200 JP, yeah, this ring probably does make a significant enough difference to improve your kill times meaningfully.

If you're planning to do a lot of Ambuscade on PUP and don't really need the use of a TVR ring for the rest of the week, why not use the easily available excellent option? Drop ring, book warp to Xarcabard right next to the Dyna entrance, pick new ring. Takes less than a minute. Can repeat after every Sunday.

Overdone. Basic DT set, gifts and food/oil for the pet is really all you need for this month. The external buffs and debuffs don't make enough of a difference in such a short encounter.

Make that 0/12.

Reminder that Fickblix's Ring from The Voracious Resurgence reward is a very nice boost for automaton for this Ambuscade. If you're planning to go PUP for a lot of points, and you could afford to swap a TVR ring until after a weekly conquest reset, it's something to consider!

Maletaru's post makes sense.
Basically it rolls on one of the 4 chest and stays there until you open.
Once you do, it rolls again and it can happen on the same chest again, just 25% chance.

Probably reset with server maint, I suppose.
Wonder which tech they used to store individual data which, I assume, is completely server-side and not client-side.

No intention to judge or demoralize you, but unlike other stuff (hello Crepuscular items) it's pretty easy to target farming Null items.
Well arguably the mask has a slightly worse drop rate, but the three other items are pretty common.
If you still need anything it shouldn't take you more than a few days to get what you want!

I'd help you but you're on a different server alas.

Some of my luck today. Not too bad with the money drops and 5mil. Was hoping for null items but no luck :(
Astral chest had 25 in it so not too bad.

Well, here's what I got:



Only been tracking it since that SE announcement.

While doing them in order in tenemos 1-2-3-4-1 if I split up between how many times a character took 1 chest(back to back 5ks), 2 chests, 3 chests, or all 4 chests(so it was the same original chest that was the last 5k) this was my distribution over last 6 weeks (sadly lost some of my earlier data) between 2 characters

1: 5 times
2: 7 times
3: 6 times
4: 5 times

It never took more than all 4 chests. While more data would be great that looks like probably a 1/4 split to me, and I would assume it is without significantly more data or a reason to expect it to be other than a 1/4 split.

Now amongst the earlier data that was lost (always back things up or windows will get you with those updates!) was a time where one character had 4 5ks in a row and the other had 3 5ks in a row, if we assume it is a 1/4 split that is very unlikely to happen but the game does like to mess with me and at least for once I got extra points out of it. I have to just consider that to be an outlier unless it is repeated.

Are you sure about that Philemon?
Beause I was pretty sure (but again, maybe I was just biased) it could be any except the last one where you got 5k.


It sorta makes sense. They created this system because, likely, they wanted to promote people to use different routes, or at least open chests in different zones instead of doing the same exact thing every bloody time.
This was their intent.
As a potential confirmation for this, a lot of people who did the same exact farming route (opening the same exact final chest) claimed they've never seen a 5k after the first time.

So because of these two things, it stands to reason that in theory the 5k could roll on any chest except the last one where you got 5k.
I was more wondering if it's just that, or if waits until you've "completed" a cycle (i.e. got 5k in each zone) before it resets and starts again.