Dark Ore/dark Bead

so i'm making a wood shield on an alt, and doing the roe objective that requires 5 pluto staves, but the supply of dark beads is nonexistent as far as i can tell. i've started gardening, but that takes almost a full month irl. hoping people who have passed this stage might have some tips.

kudos to those who passed the rosenbogen and this, i've made 3 shields and none of the others were remotely as annoying as woodworking.

Might depend on your server, but dark ores are reasonably available. When I was working on mine I bought a stack of them, and there's currently a stack up on AH right now too. Between dark ore singles, dark ore stacks, and dark bead singles, it was pretty easy to get the ~15 beads needed to make 5 pluto's staves. I'd say this was one of the easiest RoE for me, TBH.

Far as im seeing, VW chapter 2, digging, and old 60 cap bcs are the "best" but someone else can chime in who has more exp finding the ores

Make an emp weapon and cleave in Abyssea. I dont remember if its heroes or scars that has beads/ores, but they do load in gold boxes.

Man up and grow them *** like the old days!
https://ffxiclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Dark_Ore

Turn on the fishbots and try these out
https://ffxiclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Turnabaligi

1% means you'll have it in a day with 3 accounts

got 4 chars full of pots, and i do have an ebisu so will see how that fish goes although it can give 3 types of ores evidently.

Can try garden furrows with grow-m-good, instant.

For all intents and purposes there is an unlimited supply of growmgood but no data on the dark ore rate and it'd be millions of bayld

A lot of things come from saplings, but it could be accomplished, And if you have kuyin look for seeds, you won't run out of saplings

Wouldn't sink much in .00001% drop rates.

They can also come from gold boxes in Abyssea, but yeah... would probably take just as long to grow them. I just know I've NPC'd tons of various elemental ores over the years, but if you went looking for them specifically, that's when they won't exist.

3 orz out of 60 fish, 1 of which was dark. so 1.67% chance yay!

OG gardening definitely best bet. Takes couple weeks IIRC but drop rate is good.

You as blind as the ref's Tuesday night

Can also try chocobo digging Qufim Island at Waxing Crescent on Darksday when there's weather.
https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Category:Chocobo_Digging#Qufim_Island