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#1 Feb 28 2011 at 4:44 PM Rating: Good
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I am now a lvl40 miner and i find that on Grade 5 nodes i dont get Silver Sand anymore. Wether i go to Treespeak or Halathali or Iron lake i litterally get 0. Giving that im getting Gold Sand from the Grade 5 its kinda lame that we dont get silver sand anymore so to make the Electrum Nuggets.

So i said to myself Fine! ill go back to Grade 4 nodes where i got Lots of silver sand in the past! So i settle near Humblehearth and start mining at the silver sand sweetspot (which is +3 btw for thoe who didnt knew) But to my great surprize (and almost horror) i dont get Silver Sand anymore there either ...... is it because when you get in the high 30s (like 38+) you dont get to mine Silver Sand anymore? that would be very lame if i cant ever get any anymore. Anyone know?
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#2 Mar 01 2011 at 12:41 AM Rating: Good
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I noticed the same thing, as you get higher in rank you don't seem to get the optimal items from lower grade nodes.
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#3 Mar 01 2011 at 1:53 AM Rating: Decent
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i had no problem when I went back there for silver sand, but you do get alot more garnets since that is the same sweet spot of +3
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#4 Mar 01 2011 at 7:17 AM Rating: Decent
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Silver Sand is in Halatali just fine. Less nodes then in HUmblehearth, so you have less chances for it, but still there all the same.

Keep in mind, every nodes loot list is independant. If you are not hitting the right nodes, you can't squeeze silver sand from them, even if you use the specific sweet spot.

For Humblehearth, in the area where the silver sand nodes are often, there is a chance to get an iron mats node, and that does not have silver sand on it. Keep that in mind.
#5 Mar 01 2011 at 11:52 AM Rating: Good
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Thank everyone for the answers.maybe i was just impatient or very unlucky. I went back to Humblehearth today to see if i could get some sand and during the Leve "Mining Humblehearth" i got some silver sand. Afterwards the normal non-leve nodes started giving me some. But now i get way less than i used to when i was in the 20s and 30s. I guess that could make some sense since im now in the high end stretch for mining (the 40s). Ill now store all the silver sand i get since i am now getting much less.
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#6 Mar 01 2011 at 12:55 PM Rating: Decent
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Have you changed your VIT or MND stats around much since you were of lower rank?

If you are targeting a specific item, being of higher rank will help you hit your target more accurately, not force you to the more "rare" items.

Your experiences are odd.
#7 Mar 02 2011 at 1:56 AM Rating: Decent
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i think you probably think you get less because you are going for silver sand rather than just getting it, also when you were 20/30 the stack sizes probably had not changed yet so it appeared you have more when you had multiple stacks of silver sand clogging up your inventory. Or the fact that now you will get more garnets up as I said earlier than earlier levels.
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