Now .. keep in mind digging is a slow activity, not meant to be grinded unless you want to burn out quickly. I tend to dig while also doing something else, i.e. reading the news on the other monitor, etc; chatting will also work. Alternative dig days with hunt days (or trek, why not), it's healty in the long run for one's sanity.
If you don't need the mats to craft: ask to careplan for someone else. If anything, they will love not having the nodes gassing or dying, so you should find work easily. At best, the digger will be able to use more aggressive stanzas and then stare the extra mats with you. Experience is at most 1511 / node, or double that if you're subscribed or using cats. Caveat: if you're CPing in a high level region, you also need an expensive pick.
For solo .. As far as I'm aware, grades basic-choice are all grouped within a deposit, excellents being in a separate place (above ground; Prime Roots is a different story altogether). As Bittty says, dig choice if you can. I wouldn't bother with excellents, as they're season/weather/time of day restricted, so unless you happen to stumble at the right place and at the right moment, you'll just waste your time.
Get the max prospect angle you can, same with distance. So far, using a gentle spd / aggressive rate / gentle q has proved to be the most stable in the long run for me; still need to careplan once or twice until the node dies.
Overdigging is a bit of a lottery, but nothing stops you from trying it. As you noticed, you get the stanza for aggressive quality X at level X-15. You got agg. q40 at 25, for instance. Overdigging means that, once the mats in your node reached q30, you switch to an action to extract q40. Sometimes the final quality will be degraded, so beware. The health/explosion bars could also go down quicker. As said, hit and miss.
If you don't need the mats to craft: ask to careplan for someone else. If anything, they will love not having the nodes gassing or dying, so you should find work easily. At best, the digger will be able to use more aggressive stanzas and then stare the extra mats with you. Experience is at most 1511 / node, or double that if you're subscribed or using cats. Caveat: if you're CPing in a high level region, you also need an expensive pick.
For solo .. As far as I'm aware, grades basic-choice are all grouped within a deposit, excellents being in a separate place (above ground; Prime Roots is a different story altogether). As Bittty says, dig choice if you can. I wouldn't bother with excellents, as they're season/weather/time of day restricted, so unless you happen to stumble at the right place and at the right moment, you'll just waste your time.
Get the max prospect angle you can, same with distance. So far, using a gentle spd / aggressive rate / gentle q has proved to be the most stable in the long run for me; still need to careplan once or twice until the node dies.
Overdigging is a bit of a lottery, but nothing stops you from trying it. As you noticed, you get the stanza for aggressive quality X at level X-15. You got agg. q40 at 25, for instance. Overdigging means that, once the mats in your node reached q30, you switch to an action to extract q40. Sometimes the final quality will be degraded, so beware. The health/explosion bars could also go down quicker. As said, hit and miss.
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