Mining - Khroma OreFollow

I've been up in Mount Z trying to mine this damn ore. I've heard accounts of people pulling up two in a 8 hour time frame. Here I am with 10+hours over the span of a couple days and the best I have to show for it is 5 Adaman ores.

I want to drill a hole in my head to stop the mind numbing boredom of mining for so long in that awful zone. I'm starting to think being able to mine this damn ore in Mount Z is a myth.

So here I am, I gotta ask, how are the people trying to mine in Mount Z fairing? If you can, tell me how long it takes you to mine one of these suckers.

/wrist

Its roughly 150+ pickaxes or 5+ solid hrs of mining for a khroma ore werid thing is after receiving the ore theres a chance to receive another one(in short time).

Edited, Dec 4th 2009 7:26am by Szabo

For me, I usually go about 300-400 pickaxes, or 30+ stacks before seeing a khroma. -.- Usually about one per week, maybe two if I'm lucky. Hence I no longer mine.

Dear Mr.Noodles.
http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Mining
(nice pretty printable maps of all the mining areas in ffxi.)
Mount Zhayolm Is 20 mining points and your chances of hitting your sweet ore strike.

Sulfur Very Common(22.5%)
Iron Sand Common(15.9%)
Flint Stone Common(15.4%)
Iron Ore Common(16.8%)
Bomb Ash Uncommon(13.4%)
Moblin Mail Rare(9.6%)
Demon Horn Very Rare(2.2%)
Moblin Helm Rare(8.3%)
Moblin Armor Very Rare(4.5%)
Adaman Ore Very Rare(0.8%)
Troll Pauldron Very Rare(3.8%)
Troll Vambrace Very Rare(3.1%)
Moblin Mask Very Rare(3%)
Khroma Ore Very Rare(0.4%)

If your new to mining Mount Z. I'd recommend White Mage Subjob if not using it as your main job while mining.
Setup your moghouse for Mog enhancement:Experience
(death is quite common result of extended mining in dangerous area and it can be frustrating)
Reraise is your friend here.

Purchase the following gearups as soon as possible.
Field/Worker Tunic, Field/Worker Gloves, Field/Worker Boots
Skulker Mantle - (enhances Sneak and Invisible) Doubling the Time your sneak and invisible stay up. a Very Useful item.

It may take weeks before you hit Khroma Ores.. You might never hit Khroma Ore. But your gaining other items while your searching for the big payoff..

Focus on crafts that can turn the other items on the list into gil.

Alchemy, Smithing, GoldSmithing.. woodworking (if your going with fishing pole plan.)

If your able to convert the adaman ores into ingots and convert the moblin gear into ingots. moblin masks and armor into leather or glass fibers.

you can convert the glass fibers into fishing poles. and all the other trash into steel ingots and bullets.

Everytime you move the Raw Product up the Craft Chain into more useful items.

Depends on Server Economy though so check with ffxiah on your server.. for niche markets.

If you can turn the 50 or so moblin masks into glass fibers and fishing rods
Moblin Mask - Alchemy (29) Desynth.

Troll Brass Sheets Dont Sell very well but the clubs you can make from them do sell very nicely if your a high level smith.

demon horn. bone chip wind crystal makes demon arrowheads - nice if your ranger with scavange. if not its at least 4-5k each horn on ah.. and they sell very quickly.

as frustrating as this area is to mine.. There is still good money here even with pick axe costs and deaths..

you got 5 adamant ores.. somedays i mine with no adamant ores.. stacks of flint stones and sulfur.. but even with bad days. travel expenses and pick axe expenses. i wind up with a full goblin bag of loot to dump on ah and sometimes its good to get away from the xp party grind and ls to do your own thing.

To often in this game you get caught up in helping other people and powerleveling.. that you lose your Greedalox abilitys.

Unlearn all that party junk n friends who use you for thier self-advancement...

This is about You and your trusty shovel and your inner GREEDALOX!

Best of Luck
Daisy

/NIN is counter productive if you are trying to MAKE gil. I just carry an emergency stack of powders/oils.

Just go dnc or /dnc and get free inv/snk w/o the chance of bomb agro form magic... but good info about drop rates thank you.

Um what?

mining K.ore as /nin paid for hecca +1 hands, skadi feet and head, shura haidate +1(among other things). yes /nin is very counterproductive to making gil. /nin i can just zone over the /whms dead body.

Positioning is important in tunnel as clots will argo even if you recast at the mining point. Theres also magic argoing wamouras that likes to say hi from afar. All comes down to preferance really.

You can roughly average one per day (I had a friend mining all day) if you spend your entire time mining but you can also find yourself at 1 per acouple of days.

i go nin/dnc with my melee gear waiting in the wings to macro just incase i do aggro.

Genreally speaking, and i havent done this in months, i was getting atleast 1 per day in a 4 hour mining trip, and occasionally 2.

However i also found that i was making a hell of alot more money synthing the iron ore into ingots, turning sulfur and bomb ash into firesand, and making tama-hagane, demon horns into arrowheads, and desything moblin gear.

all in all, just in random crap i was making 400-600k per 4-5 hour stints, and that was not including khroma. (hint: make the iron ingot, make the firesand, make the iron bullets, sell the bullets = win)

But if you follow Aryden's post it makes easier it to make gil then waiting and relying on khroma to fund everything.

I make away decently here with the random stuff I get from mining. But finally I mined up a K.ore! It took about 12 stacks of pickaxes, which isn't that bad considering I made quite a bit off the other things too.