Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

You have a million data points, I assume that's how you got the 80% number? Or is there JP data I can't read somewhere?

Multiple users (I can remember Kayte, iir?) have very high RCP and DSC and reported a success rate on digs of ~80%.
Altough this number was probably inferred from the data in their last ~10 levels of skillup on their way to 100, and as other members have already reported the success rate seems to go slightly higher with each level you gain.
Personally I'm at wing skill 72 and I wouldn't say I noticed a huge difference, but there is a difference nonetheless

Addon reported ~40% when I started, I'm at around 57% now at 72 (that's with egg helm but egg helm procs around 20 times or a bit higher on 200 successful digs, so it's not exactly overly impactful in the end)

I'm currently 0/132/255/255 with Treasure+Bore/Treasure+Burrow on different characters, and dig accuracy has been ~96% for ages. Current stats in digger are 72995/75679 = 96.4, 62563/64967 = 96.3

While levelling with no helm, silks, denim, etc., acc was:
40% on rented bird (A60~A55)
70% on 0/0/128~159/128~159 + Treasure (A50)
80% on 0/0/255/255 + Treasure+Bore (A45)
85% on 0/0/255/255 + Treasure+Bore (A40)
88% on 0/0/255/255 + Treasure+Bore (A35)
90% on 0/0/255/255 + Treasure+Bore (A30)
Beyond A30 I don't have accuracy noted down, but it's certainly been 90%+ since.

I made an addon for that lol. it auto-digs and auto-wanders

Me too, I learned how to use navmeshes and targetrings/geohud for waypoints... when someone told me I could just hold forward and time digs.

So the helm will just exhaust my digs and wont make skillups come faster with the junk items?
Sounds like my biggest priority is raising a real chocobo or figuring out what happens to them after the fact.
I did chocobo raising when it first came out.

Not sure if I got your question, but you can get skillups from Egg Helm items, and yes they do contribute towards the daily successful digs cap.

I'm not entirely sure how the additional pool from Egg Helm is treated compared to the regular pool of dig items, but it seems to me it's an additional chance that gets added to your success rate.
When I equip my Egg Helm and go for 200 digs, my success rate is slightly higher.
The difference isn't huge but it's there (I dig a bit more than 20 egg helm items on each 200 successful digs session. Last time I recorded it was 26 items to be exact)

I am at 100 but my bird sucks (I only ever made the one racing bird, so no relevant abilities, rcp/dsc high but end lousy) so I can definitely say that wing skill has a large effect when you don't have good abilities and have mediocre stats. It's very noticeable.