{"id":9402,"date":"2018-08-01T00:46:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T04:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/?p=9402"},"modified":"2018-08-01T04:23:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T08:23:25","slug":"mining-skill-grinding-is-annoying-so-im-vyn-again-but-i-have-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2018\/08\/01\/mining-skill-grinding-is-annoying-so-im-vyn-again-but-i-have-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Mining skill grinding (is annoying) \/ &#8230;So I&#8217;m Vyn again, but I have to be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day after the impalong, still missing it and walking around the area outside my deed, being all &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe the impalong is over, it felt like it had just started&#8221; But I tried my best to focus on the bigger picture; getting my mining skill up to 70. But as I said before, I don&#8217;t exactly have any copper in the mine to the East of my deed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been trying to get the original skiller pick I bought from Xan, down to the required QL of my current Mining skill (which is 50.98). Been told to try to bash a fence down, so I tried to bash some of angry&#8217;s old fences (but not to the point they&#8217;ll fall down).<br \/>\nNahjio is not happy for doing this, but I hope he&#8217;ll forgive me (and not take away all of my Favor). I kind of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">need<\/span> it to (eventually) get that sweet 10% skill bonus.<br \/>\nStarting to get annoyed with how little damage the pick was getting, and began to wonder if I should had made two of those 1QL picks with CoC (one for DH and one for B2), but it&#8217;s too late to ask Virus for it. And to ask Wargasm, I would rather put my head in a blender than deal with him. &#8230;But, given my current predicament (to not risk knocking down one of angry&#8217;s already decaying walls), he&#8217;s possibly my only out.<br \/>\nI had B2 ask him in my place. \ud83d\ude1b And what he had to tell him (and me), seemed promising at first&#8230; and then everything I&#8217;ve been told before with grinding the mining skill, was turned on its head. Apparently, all of this talk about difficulty affecting QL of the pick with one&#8217;s mining skill, no longer is needed. He said to mine Sandstone with my regular high QL, high CoC pick, and I would get the same results.<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nI.. don&#8217;t see how. But I trust him not to give false info. Decided to try it (using one of the Sandstone veins in the canal), and the highest skill tick I got&#8230; was a sickening 0.0097. Conflicting thoughts ahoy!! To be self-sufficient (and deal with the grind)&#8230; or take the &#8216;easy road out&#8217; and buy 1k of 70QL iron lumps?<br \/>\nAnd the answer, may surprise you. I&#8217;m actually going to stick with the grind (for now), because it&#8217;s really not that bad. Because when it comes to grinding Mining, actually <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">getting<\/span> a skill tick in mining is a godsend (no matter how small it is). Plus, I have 50kg of 75QL iron lumps that I totally didn&#8217;t steal from the Impalong (now sitting in a BSB).<br \/>\nRight now (thanks to that), I&#8217;m actually good on iron. I.. also have no current plans to imp anything (kind of still bummed out that I couldn&#8217;t reach 70). I just feel I want to do&#8230; something <em>other<\/em> than imping right now. Not explore (as it&#8217;s too late in the Wurm year), but just, something. Something I&#8217;m not even sure if it&#8217;ll work (therefore I don&#8217;t want to hype it).<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nSo as I was grinding away at my mining skill (and B2 dropping one of the BSBs from the deed to load up the shards), I wonder if I should stop and focus on getting to 20 Favor (to get that sweet 10% skillgain). It would definitely help speed up the process. But there&#8217;s something I <em>wasn&#8217;t<\/em> told.. or something Virus forgot to tell me (which I think is more likely).<br \/>\nAnd that thing&#8230; praying to Nahjo was pointless. Why? <em>*facepalm*<\/em> Apparently, this god does NOT do the 10% skillgain! <a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/RkBxDRG.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">That&#8217;s fucking <strong>Vyrona<\/strong><\/a>, angry&#8217;s God.. FUCKING DAMNIT!!! D:{ The irony is slaying this dragon!<br \/>\nWOW!! The very God I&#8217;ve been trying to get AWAY from, I have to kiss her ass if I want that bonus! UGH!! FUCK!! Angry has to be laughing his head off right now.<br \/>\n&#8230;FINE! I&#8217;m that desperate. Asked War if it&#8217;s possible to get the lost Favor back pretty quickly (after pissing her off if I choose to redesign the deed), and he said yes (followed by &#8220;One prayer is like .30 faith. If Vynora &#8220;notices&#8221; you, you only lose like .01&#8243;). I also noticed this with Nahjo, except I never saw &#8216;Nahjo noticed you!&#8217; in the event log).<br \/>\nAlright, War. Convert me back to Vyn. I want that follower bonus!<br \/>\nNow I have to make my first (ever) altar. War even made me a metal bowl for it. Going over the options in the wiki, the Stone altar is the easiest\/cheapest(on mats) to make. Even the wooden one takes more mats (it requires cloth, and uses Fine Carp to imp).<\/p>\n<p>Well, that about wraps it up for today. I&#8217;ll get to work on that altar as soon as I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day after the impalong, still missing it and walking around the area outside my deed, being all &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe the impalong is over, it felt like it had just started&#8221; But I tried my best to focus on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2018\/08\/01\/mining-skill-grinding-is-annoying-so-im-vyn-again-but-i-have-to-be\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9405,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9402\/revisions\/9405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}