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A while back i stumbled upon one of the new additions to mooglebox.com, a site with "gathering information". Content was new to me and really interesting, that any item you can mine/log has a specific remainder bar length and strike zone. I've tried it out during the last week while doing the G1 & G2 achievements for mining, and i have to say, it works really well.

One thing that has to be noted (it's mentioned on the MB page, but i want to repeat it here) is that it only works when your level and class-relevant stats are above the grade you are working with, otherwise the items will just hop between random spots.

With this knowledge you can put something together that i'd call a "grade thumbprint" (hey, i'm not native english and couldn't come up with a better name ) for a certain area. I'll use the letter/number scheme that MB also uses.

So, for example, the "thumbprint" for the grade 2 mining spots around Emerald moss would be:
A: strike zone 2 -> raw sunstone, raw malachite
C: 2 -> zinc ore, minium
D: 3 -> silex

For G3 (Tranquil) it is
A: 2 -> raw garnet/peridot
C: 2 -> silver/zinc ore
C: 3 -> alumen

That way it gets really easy to predict what item you get and where on the gauge you have to hit in order to obtain it. Can speed things up quite a bit when you don't have to "search" the strike zones for the right spot

Big thanks to Jet Chan (the one running mooglebox) and Aviha Chai for getting all this info together! And i hope some of you will find it useful as well ^^

Hehe, thanks for the welcome ^^
I've already seen that parts of this were mentioned in the mining guides and that Raldo has a complete list (with % values) for botany in his spreadsheet. Just haven't found a full list for botany and mining (well, excluding the mooglebox page xD).

Integrating all this into the main page will probably be quite a challenge when you don't want to overload it with too much information. After all it needs some explanation, the raw remainder/strike zone values would be easy to integrate but hardly anyone would understand them xD
I'll try to think of something... ^^

I dunno, I've been documenting the jig spots of fish as I've been doing them and the 5 spots seem to work out ok. Like I know Northern Pike and Ala Mhigan Fighting Fish bite on far left, Yugr'am Salmon and the Corals bite far right, and then a multitude of fish bite in between.

It requires having a chart in front of you, or a really good memory to know what's biting when based on the stamina bar though. I have one of those crazy memories for useless stuff, so I'll know in some areas that there can be three different fish with the same stamina bar and know where to jig until I get a catch.

I think stats affect the actual width of the band, but not the actual midpoint. Also, when you are low compared to the item you're mining, you get the "you sense something but can't extract" message for the highest items at least, and that may be if you're not quite in the range for extracting the item. Originally, I got this message from T5 points, particularly for mythril. Now (at 41) I get mythril out first hit about half the time, so its extraction point seems to be getting wider as my stats go up.

Hey everyone. Sorry to chime in late here (5 weeks late >.<) but for some reason in my lurking I missed this thread.

Anyway, let me know if you'd like to use my data for strike zone and remainder bar, Kida. I know Raldo proposes there are more strike zones (I don't have a strong opinion here... I don't have high enough DoH stats to get very crazy about testing the strike zones (the consistency of the strike zone is really related to whether or not you have a high enough stat)), so I don't know if you want to use those, but the remainder bar is pretty straightforward.

Thanks Raldo. Hate to talk mb here too much, but in the future you can always send a note to jetchan@mooglebox.com. Thanks for the lettuce tip ;) I'll make the change.