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Lets Playing Mar 11 @ 1:15pm
Best Pickaxe for exotics.
Hey, everybody. I've been playing for a while now and am currently farming exotics/ren in a deep vein extraction mission.

So far from the picks in the workshop I have tried mxc and shengong kuang from tier 2, gradually moving towards Neves. I noticed a strange peculiarity that mxc pickaxe brought 118 exotics in 2 runs, while kuang (which is kinda higher level and gives 125% extraction vs 115% for MXC) gave only 110 for 4 veins.

Is it just me being unlucky at one time or is the pickaxe mining radius/bug an issue? What kind of pickaxe do you use to mine exotics (haven't gotten to the titanium one yet)?
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Originally posted by Qobura:
Originally posted by Lets Playing:
Originally posted by Qobura:
Ayy, alright. Ran and documented this time. TL;DR I and the wiki are wrong. Here's the test method:

Deep Vein, Easy. After the first two minimum nodes I remembered I can mess with backups to easily reload the game and rapidly get results (though it wasn't really necessary), so my notation is node number (only had to hit 3 nodes in a few different reloads to get confirmation that the yields aren't pre-determined until mined, and achieve pretty conclusive results) plus adding a letter to differentiate which reload I checked.

First set, I-screen yield 120% (stone tool, solo talents for yield, no other modifiers)
node 1a 26
node 2a 26
(realized I could store and load backups)
node 3a 25
node 3b 28
node 3c 26
Pretty consistent. I figured I'd change it up and see what the results were.
Second set, I-screen yield 207% (Neves, solo talents for yield, CX-400, Ion Backpack)
node 3d 37
node 3e 39
node 3f 37

well that's... a somewhat conclusive wrap. I'll figure out a way to get this onto Fandom myself if I can, but Fandom is a cancer. Wish Icarus had a wiki.gg instead. Or anything else.

Thanks that's really helpful. I've already made CX-400 armour, almost forgot about the backpack but now will get it too (thanks to you). Although still need to get to the pickaxe.

So it pretty much ends the discussion. Yield bonus DOES affect the amount of exotics you get from the veins but it IS NOT a consistent value.

Solo talents for mining yield. Also some bestiary unlocks (Landshark) can help too, I think.
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Nocternaldaze Mar 11 @ 1:33pm 
At first i thought the better the pick axe the better the yield, but it looks more like it is random on amount collected from what i am noticing.
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Lets Playing Mar 11 @ 2:35pm 
Originally posted by NocternalDaze:
At first i thought the better the pick axe the better the yield, but it looks more like it is random on amount collected from what i am noticing.
So in your opinion it is better to just go with the MXC?
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william_es Mar 11 @ 2:44pm 
No, use the higher grade. The amount you get per boulder or vein is random. Overall, you will get more with the higher % pick. That's just a small sample pool. The more you mine, the more you will see higher numbers on the more advanced picks.
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Lets Playing Mar 11 @ 3:15pm 
Originally posted by william_es:
No, use the higher grade. The amount you get per boulder or vein is random. Overall, you will get more with the higher % pick. That's just a small sample pool. The more you mine, the more you will see higher numbers on the more advanced picks.
Ok, thanks.
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Nocternaldaze Mar 11 @ 4:37pm 
Originally posted by william_es:
No, use the higher grade. The amount you get per boulder or vein is random. Overall, you will get more with the higher % pick. That's just a small sample pool. The more you mine, the more you will see higher numbers on the more advanced picks.

Interesting because when using a iron pick i can mine 28 exotics from a single cave in open world and using the 3rd tier workshop ones i don`t see any difference i still only mine 28 at a single time.
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slxpress Mar 11 @ 11:21pm 
Originally posted by NocternalDaze:
Originally posted by william_es:
No, use the higher grade. The amount you get per boulder or vein is random. Overall, you will get more with the higher % pick. That's just a small sample pool. The more you mine, the more you will see higher numbers on the more advanced picks.

Interesting because when using a iron pick i can mine 28 exotics from a single cave in open world and using the 3rd tier workshop ones i don`t see any difference i still only mine 28 at a single time.

In open world the best pick to use is the exotic infused pick that you pick up during Operation Meridian. I didn’t do this but it’s possible to pick up multiple versions of it while doing the mission. It’s a quest item so it can’t be repaired, but it dies last a while.
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Nocternaldaze Mar 12 @ 7:23am 
Originally posted by slxpress:
Originally posted by NocternalDaze:

Interesting because when using a iron pick i can mine 28 exotics from a single cave in open world and using the 3rd tier workshop ones i don`t see any difference i still only mine 28 at a single time.

In open world the best pick to use is the exotic infused pick that you pick up during Operation Meridian. I didn’t do this but it’s possible to pick up multiple versions of it while doing the mission. It’s a quest item so it can’t be repaired, but it dies last a while.

Will give that one a try at one stage has i am burned out doing the ramp up mission over and over collecting exotics from the vein and going back to station and repeating.
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UnderLord_74 Mar 12 @ 2:30pm 
If you're on Prometheus, use the Miasmic Pickaxe - it drops noxious crusts that can be cleansed for 5 exotics each. Overall haul is much higher than the Titanium Pickaxe (buffed with alterations)
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Qobura Mar 16 @ 9:15pm 
Originally posted by william_es:
No, use the higher grade. The amount you get per boulder or vein is random. Overall, you will get more with the higher % pick. That's just a small sample pool. The more you mine, the more you will see higher numbers on the more advanced picks.

demonstrably false and explicitly stated by the developer as contrary to their vision for exotic nodes
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william_es Mar 16 @ 9:56pm 
Originally posted by Qobura:
Originally posted by william_es:
No, use the higher grade. The amount you get per boulder or vein is random. Overall, you will get more with the higher % pick. That's just a small sample pool. The more you mine, the more you will see higher numbers on the more advanced picks.

demonstrably false and explicitly stated by the developer as contrary to their vision for exotic nodes

Better quality picks give more exotics. what is "false" about that? It's a fact.
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Nocternaldaze Mar 17 @ 1:47pm 
Well i have been doing quite a few missions testing the neves pickaxe and here is what i am noticing with it.

Iron pickaxe mines between 25 - 28 exotics being it is random each time.

Neves pickaxe mines between 28 - 40 exotics again being random each time.

The hassle with the neves pickaxe is if you are doing missions and it needs repairing during a mission you have to send it back to station and then have it dropped into open world to repair it with repair kit then send it back up and load back into mission to drop it again.
Last edited by Nocternaldaze; Mar 17 @ 1:48pm
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slxpress Mar 17 @ 1:54pm 
Originally posted by NocternalDaze:
Well i have been doing quite a few missions testing the neves pickaxe and here is what i am noticing with it.

Iron pickaxe mines between 25 - 28 exotics being it is random each time.

Neves pickaxe mines between 28 - 40 exotics again being random each time.

The hassle with the neves pickaxe is if you are doing missions and it needs repairing during a mission you have to send it back to station and then have it dropped into open world to repair it with repair kit then send it back up and load back into mission to drop it again.

Why would you use a repair kit? Just right click on it in the orbit screen and pay to repair it that way.

The repair kits are a ripoff. I don’t think I’ve ever used a repair kit to repair workshop items.
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william_es Mar 17 @ 2:13pm 
Originally posted by NocternalDaze:

The hassle with the neves pickaxe is if you are doing missions and it needs repairing during a mission you have to send it back to station and then have it dropped into open world to repair it with repair kit then send it back up and load back into mission to drop it again.

Yeah, at a certain point I just carry my neves around as a magic anti-grav wand. I switch to it for the -40% encumbrance penalty. I use another pickage for actual mining. By that point I have titanium/platinum with attachments.

Now that I play a lot of open world, I have a small stack of workshop repair kits in a locker. Leftovers from breaking open 5 packs. So every once in a while I repair the neves for giggles.
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Nocternaldaze Mar 17 @ 4:35pm 
Originally posted by slxpress:
Originally posted by NocternalDaze:
Well i have been doing quite a few missions testing the neves pickaxe and here is what i am noticing with it.

Iron pickaxe mines between 25 - 28 exotics being it is random each time.

Neves pickaxe mines between 28 - 40 exotics again being random each time.

The hassle with the neves pickaxe is if you are doing missions and it needs repairing during a mission you have to send it back to station and then have it dropped into open world to repair it with repair kit then send it back up and load back into mission to drop it again.

Why would you use a repair kit? Just right click on it in the orbit screen and pay to repair it that way.

The repair kits are a ripoff. I don’t think I’ve ever used a repair kit to repair workshop items.

To be honest i didn`t know that was a thing being it states needs to be repaired with repair kits.
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Nocternaldaze Mar 17 @ 4:37pm 
Originally posted by william_es:
Originally posted by NocternalDaze:

The hassle with the neves pickaxe is if you are doing missions and it needs repairing during a mission you have to send it back to station and then have it dropped into open world to repair it with repair kit then send it back up and load back into mission to drop it again.

Yeah, at a certain point I just carry my neves around as a magic anti-grav wand. I switch to it for the -40% encumbrance penalty. I use another pickage for actual mining. By that point I have titanium/platinum with attachments.

Now that I play a lot of open world, I have a small stack of workshop repair kits in a locker. Leftovers from breaking open 5 packs. So every once in a while I repair the neves for giggles.

Good point that does seem the best way to use it :)
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