The Adventures Of Pirotess: Gathering With Miner

Botanist is not the only gathering job in Final Fantasy XIV. Miner is another gathering job that is useful. Miners gather ores, precious stones, and fossils that can be used in various crafting jobs. To unlock the Miner job, visit the Miner's Guild in Ul'dahh and talk to the receptionist at the desk. Once you have your trusty pickaxe equipped, you can go gathering.

Talk to this NPC at the Miner's guild to unlock the job. 

There are tons of places you can gather on Miner. In order to find these items, you need to make use of your skills and abilities. Abilities like Lay of the Land show you where you can harvest items on the area map. They will look like small golden pickaxe icons on your map. These locations are where you go to gather materials needed for crafting jobs like blacksmith or armorer.

Use Lay of the Land to locate materials to be gathered.

In your gathering log, you can look to see what items are in the area that you can gather on Miner. As you level up a new gathering log will unlock revealing more items that can be gathered in different locations. A check mark will appear next to items you have successfully gathered. 

A list of items that you can gather in an area are in your gathering log. 

Places that can be harvested will have a sparkling point known as a gathering node. This shows that this is where you can gather materials. You can also use abilities like Sharp Vision which will enhance your mining abilities and help to ensure successfully gathering materials. 

Gathering nodes will sparkle like this. 

When you start gathering, your gathering log will pop up listing items you can harvest from the node with a percentage next to them. This shows you the average success rate of gathering these particular items from this node. Don't forget to use your abilities to help get the best rate of gathering on your Miner. 

Pirotess uses her gathering log to harvest materials.

 Just like with the other disciple of the hand and land crafting/gathering jobs, when you hit certain level caps you get a job specific quest from the guild master. For Miner, talk to the guild master NPC Adalberta for the quest. When you complete these quests you get your choice of gear for Miner. 

Talk to Adalberta for your job specific quests.

Miner is just as useful as Botanist for all your crafting jobs. As you can see, you can gather the elemental shards you need for crafting as well as the various materials needed for crafting on these jobs. Pair Botanist and Miner together and you will be able to have a majority of the things you need for your crafting. Get out there and start gathering. See you at the next adventure! 

*Final Fantasy XIV is available to play on the following platforms: PC and Playstation 4