HQ Mining/Harvesting set question. (Workers/Field)

[moguri]

So I was thinking about mining/harvesting and have heard different things. Some people claim the HQ set adds to your chance of rarer items, while others say this isn't true at all.

I'm really poor atm, and buying the HQ set would take all of my gil (which is the opposite of what I'm trying to do)

Wiki says it just adds Defense, but some people I spoke to swear by it. If it does indeed help even a little, then It's worth the gil to me. Anyone with info please help me out. Much love. :elmer:

[Antithesis]

Only adds defense and whitebox factor iirc.

[rrynn]

it may possibly make your pickaxes/sickles break less often. even that i doubt tho.

i am superstitious about mine, and i like to believe it helps, but rationally i will admit there is a 99.99999999% possibility that it does not. at this point i only keep it because it was a gift. mining is so random anyway, it's not like you could tabulate a pattern to it to see if the gear was helping.

[Zarath]

From what I can tell, it does nothing overall, if your thinking of Khorma ore, I'm like 0/12 stacks on pickaxes with HQ worker's stuff (Made it myself and HQed em by accident lol)

[Vigilia]

Does absolutely nothing at all as far as I could tell. Me and my partner used to be mining mad for the whole first year of CoP and spent 2-3 evenings in Oldton/Newton Movalpolos most weeks gearing up our first and second 75 jobs (and he was leveling NIN at the time which was still stupidly expensive then). He always used the HQ set, I had the NQ set and we got the exact same stuff and got through the 5 stacks of pickaxes around the same time every evening.

[Raineer]

Only adds defense and whitebox factor iirc.

I made alot of money in the 30's with harvesting, I did try to find a difference and there wasn't any (for me).

[Loren]

Consider this set as a counterpart to the Fishing and Chocobo sets, which explicity offer nothing but DEF when they're HQ. That's my logic anyway.

[Seyrr]

It also gives you something to wear that'll freak out your parties in the dunes.

[KillerPLD]

Well, I recently started mining and I only have field tunica, because no other pieces will show up on AH. Question is, how much a difference is 1 piece against 4? Do certain parts do certain things? Thanks in advance.

[Raineer]

Don't believe that certain pieces do certain things, for me they just seemed to help break sickles less and less.

I guess I maybe got slightly better results with it (you can tell how sure I am), I really just used it to save sickles. In my opinion that difference was noticeable (gear vs. no gear, HQ didn't help.) If you're only doing 1 aspect of HELM you only need 3 pieces. You always need the body, and there will be one that doesn't apply to your craft.

[fishstix]

Anyone ever test that miner's pendant you get from AF1 monk? >.>

[Matthias Garuda]

Anyone ever test that miner's pendant you get from AF1 monk? >.>

I felt like it yielded me better results with it than without (It might have helped that I only used to mine in Gusgen Mines), but no I didn't not do any quanifiable testing.

[Awoir]

Anyone ever test that miner's pendant you get from AF1 monk? >.>

Myth, doesn't help. Gear only makes you break sickles/picks less. HQ gear = NQ gear as far as HELM goes.

[Ghostsix.Midgard]

Only adds defense and whitebox factor iirc.

[Lliandra]

I'm reasonably new to mining and have one piece of HQ mining gear (Feet i think..) and the rest is NQ. Now my results have been quite sporadic. I've had 1 Khroma Ore so far (Almost wet myself when i saw it pop as i had less than 1k to my name; ; ) and 4 Adaman Ores (Only farm in Mt Zhaylom), with the rest being stacks of Sulfur, Flint Stones and Bomb Ash.
I haven't got Smithing levelled, I will start once i've enough money to see me through the first few levels, so i'm losing a bit of money at the moment. But afaik gear doesn't really affect results.

I did read a rumour about Khroma Ore being yielded only at Full Moon. Either this is bollocks or i just got lucky, as mine dropped @ 39% Waxing Gibbous (I think)

Whats the best way to make money off of this? Is smithing the way to go?

Lliandra - Titan

[Ashky]

Holy shit, Ghostsix! I haven't seen you in months dude. You coming back to the game?

[Raineer]

Whats the best way to make money off of this? Is smithing the way to go?

If you're at smithing 0 I would probably just sell the ores for a awhile. Unless you know the economy very closely it's rough to make money at low levels unless you can farm all your crystals (which again, is a time investment).

[Ghostsix.Midgard]

Holy shit, Ghostsix! I haven't seen you in months dude. You coming back to the game?

wow where the fuck you been? I hardly recognize the shell anymore.. yeah I came back a week or so ago. Don't tell me you left DH?