[Vermilion755]

I don't know if this is Sphere inherent... but on an OLD sphere shard I played on... Rare ores were only mine-able in certain areas. You had to seek these areas out and mine there in order to get a small chance at mining that ore, rather than a crappy one.

For example, blackrock was found inside the despise dungeon. So you had to mine with monsters around you, and even then, you had to mine for 20-30 minutes just to get 1 peice of blackrock ore amongst all the dull copper, old copper, iron, etc.

This was quite different than IN, where you could just mine in a guard zoned mine (minoc) while you watch TV... and have the same chance at mining sapphire as you do anywhere else.