What Drives Diggers Crazy

[kekulus]

Your Greslin pick pops a node that cannot explode, and the source content is ten.

You pop a sup node, and your pick breaks.

Just as you approach your favorite Excellent, the rain stops and the clouds part. Oh well, you port back to your favorite picnic spot to enjoy the sunshine, and as soon as your blanket is spread and your food is laid out, a downpour ruins your meal.

Chat plus Dig equals BOOM!!!

Chat plus Dig plus Letting your friend dig your extra nodes equals BOOM!!! (times two)

You both were using careplanners equals BOOM!!! (times four)

Your first dig in Enchanted Isle, you see Lerching approaching, and flee from him straight into a herd of Zerx.

As your respawn counter reaches zero, you realize that Lerching is actually friendly.

“Not enough Focus to validate action.”

*dig* *dig* *dig* *Raging Torbak attacks you* *Raging Torbak hits your head for 822 damage* *Raging Torbak hits your chest for 692 damage* *You are too far from the source to forage* *Raging Torbak Hits your arm for 622 damage* *You use “Speeding Up” Power* *Raging Torbak leaves combat, since it just saw you run smack into a nest of Incensed Kinchers, Belligerent Cutes, and Fearsome Zerx, armed with a pick and a bag of Oath bark – he knows you are done for*

Seeing a newbie Kami run by in a set of Supreme Q20 Heavy Armor.

Seeing ANYONE in a set of Supreme Q20 Armor.

“Can’t put item – bag full.” “Your Mektoub is too encumbered.” “Your Mektoub is too encumbered.” “Your Mektoub is too encumbered.” “Yes, dangit, even your Mektoub mount is too encumbered.” “Your Apartment is too encumbered.” “You are a hopeless packrat. Please seek a support group at your earliest convenience – like NOW!!!”

*EDIT: You couldn't find a raw material source due to some obstacle

[martl]

Your Greslin pick pops a node that cannot explode, and the source content is ten.

You pop a sup node, and your pick breaks.

Just as you approach your favorite Excellent, the rain stops and the clouds part. Oh well, you port back to your favorite picnic spot to enjoy the sunshine, and as soon as your blanket is spread and your food is laid out, a downpour ruins your meal.

Chat plus Dig equals BOOM!!!

Chat plus Dig plus Letting your friend dig your extra nodes equals BOOM!!! (times two)

You both were using careplanners equals BOOM!!! (times four)

Your first dig in Enchanted Isle, you see Lerching approaching, and flee from him straight into a herd of Zerx.

As your respawn counter reaches zero, you realize that Lerching is actually friendly.

“Not enough Focus to validate action.”

*dig* *dig* *dig* *Raging Torbak attacks you* *Raging Torbak hits your head for 822 damage* *Raging Torbak hits your chest for 692 damage* *You are too far from the source to forage* *Raging Torbak Hits your arm for 622 damage* *You use “Speeding Up” Power* *Raging Torbak leaves combat, since it just saw you run smack into a nest of Incensed Kinchers, Belligerent Cutes, and Fearsome Zerx, armed with a pick and a bag of Oath bark – he knows you are done for*

Seeing a newbie Kami run by in a set of Supreme Q20 Heavy Armor.

Seeing ANYONE in a set of Supreme Q20 Armor.

“Can’t put item – bag full.” “Your Mektoub is too encumbered.” “Your Mektoub is too encumbered.” “Your Mektoub is too encumbered.” “Yes, dangit, even your Mektoub mount is too encumbered.” “Your Apartment is too encumbered.” “You are a hopeless packrat. Please seek a support group at your earliest convenience – like NOW!!!”

A fat bodoc stepping on my fingers while digging

you blow yourself on the first noe of sup, you respawn and hasten back, good Ma-Duk, its still there! you start digging and notice your focus was still down to 300...

[mithur]

Just a word:

Wyac

[kyesmith]

Thought about it for a bit, desided nothing thats bad about digging ;) i like it lol

having to deal with zatchel gets a little annoying but nothing too bad, digging has kept me in game this far ;)

[nulsul]

20 critters all deciding to take a nap in the exact spot i want to forrage

a carnivore deciding he wants to snack on one of those 20 critters ~.~

Cherkin

Finding a new forraging spot not surronded by aggro


Actually... none of this is really that bad. Digging is quite enjoyable =D

[tylarth]

after a few hrs waiting the sup pops... and so do the lumpers+ yelks, and then the vorax come.

blowing up on the last few digs of a bag.. so craft is delayed by need of further diging a new bag to shift dp.

[acridiel]

You just swing your first Dig at the normaly absolutely save Sup-Sha Source in Nexus and an Yelk drags a Torbak up into aggro range. Yelk dies, Torbak sees you, Torbak hits you a few times, before you can get up, then you hit speed, you finally start to run and die from one tick of dmg in the gas cloud...

Just happened to me 20 minutes ago...

Acridiel

[kyesmith]

after a few hrs waiting the sup pops... and so do the lumpers+ yelks, and then the vorax come.


Yea that i agree with, its 100% safe to sit in PR while choice is up, second supreme pops mobs just start aiming for you

[calel]

Rofl, I can pretty much relate to all those examples. I'll add some of my own if you don't mind?


Your Greslin pick pops a non-explodable source with content of 30, you go full harmfull and manage to gather 26 in one pull, when WHAM, you end up getting eaten by a Vorax before you can click 'pick up'.

Riding your mektoub to GoC only to notice on arrival you forgot to bring a pick.

Tell windows during foraging.

You dodge hordes of Vorax to reach a supreme deposit, using all your powers in the progress, only to notice some factioned player beat you to it. And then Raj eats you.

Forgetting to back up your save folder and losing all your markers.

Vorax season on supernodes.

Lumpers dragging Vorax on you.

Vorax.

And Raj.

Waiting till the last moment to apply careplan actions, then you get struck by the 'FS Lost' monster.

Kilgoretrout 'foraging' your packed lunch.

Noticing at higher levels the Tryker foraging Rite reward is actually very very bad since it's not optional.

Foraging for mission materials without maps.

Kipees, shalahs, aranas, gubannis, armas, wombai, bolobi, bodocs and especially lumpers that coincidently all need to flock towards your foraging spots!

Someone who got all but 2 materials out of that supreme material deposit.

Gathering 19.9 materials.


There's probably a bunch more I can't come up with right now.

[mrshad]

Can anyone make me a set of q20 sup armor?

:P

[d29565]

Chatting after pressing the button for care, typing a very very long sentance, and then realizing you've been caring the entire time and used up half your source time caring -_- Freakin' over care.

Pressing the target dangerous aggro mobs like Zatchel and Vispa macro, finding it's safe. Then alt-tabbing out to check on the forum gossip, after alt tabbing back in you realize Zatchel has decided to appear out of no where -_-.
....Digging period.

...Digging without music, even worse.

...Digging without music and without chat (I hate it when people stop talking...all those channels....)

The Excellent Visc Sap spot in GoC is under a cuttler spawn, the excellent glue resin is under a kirosta spawn, and so on and so forth -_-

[akicks]

Kipees!

*for length*

[raven41]

the only thing annoys me about digging the most is....

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Digging

[gillest]

Cutes.. I just hate them, never see them coming.

"Please Wait"... Oh gosh, cant remember: was I extracting or CPing? Crash, log back face on the ground... Aye, was extracting.

[setstyle]

Arana -- a herd of these things will block any view, be it the sources you just popped or the aggro 10m in front of you.

Oh yeah... and source mode 5. ;)

[sidusar]

For several hours not a single supreme is up, and then suddenly more supremes than you could possibly fit inside your bag all pop up within the same 15 minute window.

"Can't put item in bag - bag full. Would you like to A. Destroy some of the supreme materials you've already foraged? B. Destroy your jewelry and amplifiers? Or C. Teleport to town and miss out on this supreme deposit?"

I can do one more extract before having to careplan.... *The source mode is now 5* *An explosion hits you for 3000 points of damage*

*dig* *dig* *dig* *Raging Torbak attacks you* *Raging Torbak hits your chest for 800 damage* *You use “Speeding Up” Power* *Raging Torbak performs a critical strike on you* *Raging Torbak hits your head for 800 damage* *Raging Torbak hits your hands for 800 damage* *Raging Torbak hits your legs for 800 damage* *You are no longer stunned, since you've already been killed*

Oh, and yelks ofcourse. All herbies drag predators towards you, but they also leave a nice toxic cloud that works together with the dragged predator to kill you twice as fast.

[zarozina]

Kipees, shalahs, aranas, gubannis, armas, wombai, bolobi, bodocs and especially lumpers that coincidently all need to flock towards your foraging spots!


you missed out yelk ;P

[haennah]

Yahtzee!!!

[camillez]

*dig dig dig* The source in now mode 5... An explosion hits you for 3043 points of damage...

I have 3040 HP when I dig... Annoying isn't it? :p

[arfindel]

Wikkah aggro lost, Rippa avoided, Vulca comes from behind...

[durenity]

Can’t put item – bag full.” “Your Mektoub is too encumbered.” “Your Mektoub is too encumbered.” “Your Mektoub is too encumbered.” “Yes, dangit, even your Mektoub mount is too encumbered.” “Your Apartment is too encumbered.” “You are a hopeless packrat. Please seek a support group at your earliest convenience – like NOW!!!”


:D Thanks I needed a good laugh this morning

[riveit]

Using a two-step dig while chatting.

chat .... dig ... chat ... doh!! forgot to switch ... chat ... dig ... chat .... doh!! forgot to switch ....

[sprite]

Timari screaming in my ears.
Just that.

I can deal with zerx attacks and cuttler pops, node depleted and out of season messages, low content sources and just plain no mats, but timari drive me insane :mad:

[zanthar]

Hmm Diggin too close to your packer and the poor thing gets gassed to death, by your neglegence, as you run to safety! Poor Moe I'll miss ya!

[tigrus]

To bad no one said I hate Sun Ce, while digging:p

[japamala]

To bad no one said I hate Sun Ce, while digging:p

Nah, I have never had probs with you. Only this other guy whose name I can't spell.

[zanthar]

To bad no one said I hate Sun Ce, while digging:p

Lol! That could be remeded if you like! ;) :p I'm always happy to oblige! Better yet I'm sure Jackoba would love to oblige! He does owe ya for that vid you posted. :D *wanders off to find him*

[philu]

Cherkin

Amen to that! ;)


but timari drive me insane :mad:

You sure you weren't already? :D

[jared96]

You just swing your first Dig at the normaly absolutely save Sup-Sha Source in Nexus and an Yelk drags a Torbak up into aggro range. Yelk dies, Torbak sees you, Torbak hits you a few times, before you can get up, then you hit speed, you finally start to run and die from one tick of dmg in the gas cloud...

Just happened to me 20 minutes ago...

Acridiel

I hit MPA first ..... then either amp up and kill or run like hell

[jared96]

Using a two-step dig while chatting.

chat .... dig ... chat ... doh!! forgot to switch ... chat ... dig ... chat .... doh!! forgot to switch ....

I can't use greslin pick cause of this....my routine is:

Step 1 -> 2 cp's -> step 2

If I don't have to cp, I get a full load of low qual mats cause without need to cp, I forgot to go to step 2

[dakhound]

Lol! That could be remeded if you like! ;) :p I'm always happy to oblige! Better yet I'm sure Jackoba would love to oblige! He does owe ya for that vid you posted. :D *wanders off to find him*

hmmm I killed him while digging, he just de-tags.

*shrug*

[tigrus]

hmmm I killed him while digging, he just de-tags.

*shrug*


Aaaand yet again you leave reasons out.
I was digging with a guildie to fill a order from a customer!!
Im mercenary remember?

And it was after killing your kara buddies for 2 hours straight jack! lol

[kekulus]

ROFL!!!

Thanks everyone for your contributions, I'm soooo glad to know that i do not 'suffer' alone...

Ha hA Ha hA Ha hA hehehe

Keep them coming!!!! :)

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PS - Please, for those of you who thought i was ragging on digging: DO NOT labour under the misconception...that I was bad-mouthing digging! I am a digger. Ok, sure, i can heal if necessary, i have swung my mighty bardiche at any foe who threatened a friend from time to time, but these are not my passions. I, am a digger. My passion (Besides Ames - Hi Baby!), is crafting, and crafting means digging. Well, mostly digging. And I am a digger. :P

[mithur]

Another thing annoying:

15+ diggers at full speed in Towerbridge. It takes a hour bring the "Kami Tolerance" bar from 100% to 90%.

C'mon, I've never seen one kami intolerance show (Well, in the "harvest" way, i mean :P). I'd love have the kami tolerance here again.

[d29565]

Yeah, i hate that Kami Tolerance while digging sucks now :) I liked not being able to dig in a certain spot.

[japamala]

Another thing annoying:

15+ diggers at full speed in Towerbridge. It takes a hour bring the "Kami Tolerance" bar from 100% to 90%.

C'mon, I've never seen one kami intolerance show (Well, in the "harvest" way, i mean :P). I'd love have the kami tolerance here again.

similar story in Dyron, but we manages to get it a bit lower.

[rellis]

I remember the good old days in dyron where you might get a good hour or two digging on a weekend before everyone was getting zapped *sigh*

Hmm my hates would have to be Q247 , 17.9 or something like that, should really round it off. My obsessive habit of clicking stuff on my screen as i dig, i must check my inventory / mail/ forum and all that a million times a dig session. Should go see a healer about it. hmm think thats about it for now , oh yea blowing up yourself just before you gotta craft -.-

[jared96]

“Can’t put item – bag full.”

So you walk over to your mektoub and stupidly try and put it in your bag again but, because of the "standing near your mektoub" bug, your 17 mats that won't fit in ya bag just disappear from the universe.

So next time this happens as you startw alking to your 'toub, you say "remember, stoopid, to move mats from ya bag to the 'toub before hitting TAKE ALL for the ones you just foraged". Of course you forget 14 seconds later when ya get to the 'toub and hit TAKE ALL before empying bag and the mats again vanish into the etherworld.

[emptyish]

-You pop supreme and are so excited to get in as many extractions as possible that while rushing from one node to the next you forget to press the "Take All" bottom before digging into the new node, thereby sending your 15 pieces of Sup Zun Amber to oblivion. (On a side note, if I had every mat I'd thrown away in this manner I could likely squeeze out ten anklet levels. Sigh.)

-You've cleared the Zun spot of all supreme mats, someone else has cleared it of all excellent mats, you just want some Choice Zun to level up with, you're not asking that much really. Excellent is up, prospects are telling you that “there are no more mats for the time being”, and excellent just refuses to go down. You wait 30 min for Exc to go down.... it's just such a slap in the face.

[acridiel]

Another thing annoying:

15+ diggers at full speed in Towerbridge. It takes a hour bring the "Kami Tolerance" bar from 100% to 90%.

C'mon, I've never seen one kami intolerance show (Well, in the "harvest" way, i mean :P). I'd love have the kami tolerance here again.

It´s funny, realy. I vividly remember so many Players proclaiming:

- Up with Kami tolerance
- The Kami tolerance is ufair
- Kami tolerance should be put higher
and so forth...

Yeah, realy... the "good old days"... LOL
;)

Acridiel

[fasinuss]

you prospect for the last time and able to dig 3 nodes.. 2 go well and u need 17 mats more to get ur bag full... with the 3th node u get a few packet lost and the foraged mats come out at 170 instead of 17 and then you have to decide to drop the mats and prospect again or leave ur bag by this :(

happened to many times with me..

[d29565]

To your 'problem' Fasi, destroy like 3 mats in your bag or whatever the math needed and will give just enough room for the rest. That's what I do anyway.

[fasinuss]

To your 'problem' Fasi, destroy like 3 mats in your bag or whatever the math needed and will give just enough room for the rest. That's what I do anyway.

not rly, it will need the bulk for 170 mats

[d29565]

hmm, probably read it wrong..still doesn't make sense to me, but *shrug*

Hmm...did I mention hating when I alt tab and *poof* Zatchel arrives? -_-

[kayak]

...my new dig method lets me dig faster than before
...my new dig method means i can see KT going down solo

blowing up for 4 more HP that i have

season changes at 7am on a saturday morning. don't they know i have my liver to kill on a friday night?


yelks. they agro drag on purpose.

oh go on then... sunce


to keiko: the bug fasi is referring to is when you dig 170 mats of ql 2500 (decimal point gets lost in packet) and you can't fit it in your bag.

[carrie]

Digging with the Pick of Doom....for some reason I always seemed to wipe out everyone within a close distance (including myself).

You know you miss digging with me Fas!!

[kay22626]

Wyac? haha thats nothing compared to having to listen to the cratcha sounds for hours while digging. Someone up there must hate us Matis, i went as far as "weeding" most the cratchas out before dig marathons....pathetic isnt it? :P

[meloner]

you prospect 5 sources. You start digging 1 then 2...you run like hell to the 3rd one but as soon as you've clicked on it it disappears. "Yes ! I've got it ! I've got it ! HAHAHAHA ! *click* NOOOOOOO !"

[dakhound]

hmmm

when getting your dig gear, legging it to some far flung spot in PR, shoot off your first prospect and then getting a /tell from someone saying "kirokya/mada/mek/yelk up wanna give me a hand". you then know full well the next 2hrs is a full on boss hunt and you wont get any digging done

[setstyle]

You target a source and hit your extraction shortcut. Running up to it and kneeling down, your character starts off the source timer, but then somehow triggers the message "you are too far from the source to forage" and stands idly while the precious green bubble continues to expire.

[m1nion]

hmmm

when getting your dig gear, legging it to some far flung spot in PR, shoot off your first prospect and then getting a /tell from someone saying "kirokya/mada/mek/yelk up wanna give me a hand". you then know full well the next 2hrs is a full on boss hunt and you wont get any digging done

You love me really :P

[zanthar]

Digging with the two step method and accidentally hitting your lower Q extraction by accident and ruining the Q of the mats just before time runs out! Grrrrrrrrr!:eek:

[meloner]

u r too busy chatting to realise you've spent all your focus on caring :mad: -.-

[zanthar]

You are too busy chatting and forget to switch to your higher lvl extraction, in the two step dig, and ruin the dig!:mad:

[zanthar]

Hearing about others getting these uber pulls because of packet loss and realizing that you are just plain unlucky! :p Oh and getting caught with your nickers down in the upper bog and getting killed by aggro, while tracking deposits, and having them camp your body while a friend, yes you Sanrye, can only heal you enough to get you up, lest she incure their wrath as well! And after ten minutes or so of this fun you finally get out!

[meloner]

getting caught with your nickers down in the upper bog

and what on earth were you doing with your nickers down ? :D

[zanthar]

and what on earth were you doing with your nickers down ? :D

:eek: Err....... um..........:o *runs and hides*

[fasinuss]

you wonder why your cper died, before u realized why he did, the gas killed yourself already.. tsk tsk

[d29565]

hmmm

when getting your dig gear, legging it to some far flung spot in PR, shoot off your first prospect and then getting a /tell from someone saying "kirokya/mada/mek/yelk up wanna give me a hand". you then know full well the next 2hrs is a full on boss hunt and you wont get any digging done

This is the best thing in the world. I just dont get enough of them. Really my Karavan friends, I love boss hunting with everyone and I'm happy with even sharing, or even guild sharing, since ten to one wont be many others in the team in my guild if I get a lucky invite from a karavan guild...

On Topic, I hate getting to just the right spot, then realizing you forgot to rebuy the teleport or you forgot your pick. Or the worst one, you forgot you had all the cats in your bag from crafting, and now have little, to no room for mats..

[dakhound]

This is the best thing in the world. I just dont get enough of them. Really my Karavan friends, I love boss hunting with everyone and I'm happy with even sharing, or even guild sharing, since ten to one wont be many others in the team in my guild if I get a lucky invite from a karavan guild...

you do know I was being sarcastic right :D

mar always seems to capture that moment perfect on me

[d29565]

Yes hun, i know...I was just adding my 2 dappers worth of nothing :)

[jared96]

You are too busy chatting and forget to switch to your higher lvl extraction, in the two step dig, and ruin the dig!:mad:

Or your usin a greslin pick, are chatting of course, but the "trigger" which you use to signal when you need to go from step 1 to 2 is low stability and because w/ greslin pick, stability doesn't go down ..... you wind up with 17 QL30 stuff.

[kekulus]

hehehe...

And, Last (well, maybe not last) but not least (well, maybe it is least):

'You cannot use that terrain specialization here" on your careplan action, which you failed to change after changing your extraction stanza, and of course you waited until that last moment to careplan the spot...

BOOM!!!

[zanthar]

hehehe...

And, Last (well, maybe not last) but not least (well, maybe it is least):

'You cannot use that terrain specialization here" on your careplan action, which you failed to change after changing your extraction stanza, and of course you waited until that last moment to careplan the spot...

BOOM!!!

Rofl that's goooood!!!!!!!!!!!:D

[stheno2]

Start digging and get around halfway to needing to cp (or so you thought) Timmy gets in the way of the source bars. You try to adjust camera to see source bars...BOOM

Due to previous annoyance you clear all but one Timmy for a relatively annoyance free dig session, you dig a couple digs, and on next dig you again have about half way to next cp and pop all timmies pop on you and your source due to a group moving in and killing the last timmy.....BOOM.....

Group asking you...do you need rez? .... and you think after the annoyances putting you in a bad mood "hmm noooo I am having a dirt nap cuz I am tired...." But you realize you really don't want to have DP since it was last bag.... So you try to respond nice and group gets wiped by rouge zerx b4 you can get a rez.

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Start digging for the day and want to have a peaceful solo time....
in region chat "lvl 30 needing to cp anyone need me?"

mins go by....(around chat) need a cp? while you are just about to cp...
you wait to respond so you can hit cp to then reply quick as to not interupt dig rythm....
just as you go to hit the cp macro (tell window popups up) NEED A CP!?!...

BOOM (both dead)

(tell) omg you killed me!! I need rez can you rez me plz thx

you figure this person wont go away and any explanation wont satisfy them as to why you aren't rezzing them asap so you go afk/move to new spot/what ever else....

return to same spot later on...

(same person from before in tell) need a cp?

you reply with no thx. (in any form of niceness or not so nice)

mins later....cherkin is dragged on you by said desperate cper just as you were about to finish up and craft.....

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you get a cper that seems decient,
digs go ok for a while...
getting close to end of dig session....
cper goes afk without announce but you catch it and cp yourself out of serious trouble and waste much source time and focus doing so since you were full harm....
sit to regen...
"oh sry had to get a drink"...
another 15 mins goes by of ok digging again...
another unannounced afk and this time you didn't catch it...
BOOM
You die far enough away from cper that they live....
no one in region.....
you wait for cper to get back...
30 seconds on timer just as cper says sry gotta go friends need me....
timer runs out and 2 seconds later..."oh sry you need rez?"...

hehe wordy and maybe a bit picky, but im sure we all been there in some form lol

[meloner]

*dig 12 mats of Q175*
*dig 13 mats of q180*
*dig 14 mats of q180*
*dig 15 mats of Q 180*
*out of focus*
*self heal focus 3*
*dig 16 mats of Q180*

*Annoying Kirosta hits you for 500dmg*
*Annoying Kirosta hits you for 1k dmg*
*Annoying Kirosta kills you*
*Friendly digger heals you*

... *you have to wait 15 mins for your focus to regen :mad:*

*Annoying digger digs in front of you*
*Annoying digger leaves after 10 minutes for another spot*

*Focus has regenerated at last*
*Prospection for choice materials only*
*The spot has been depleted*
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[gillest]

Just arrive to the spot, Multi 7:
Bam, 10 Supreme spot...
Sweet.
Start digging..

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Half way through first dig: "you have been disconnected, please log in again" - "Wifi reception dropped to 1mbps, you lost connect"

Relog...
alrdy connected, please try again later...
after 2-3 attempt, finally back in: multi 7 : bam choice mats...

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Half way through first dig: "you have been disconnected, please log in again" - "Wifi reception dropped to 1mbps, you lost connect"

Relog...
Face in the dirt.


Got to love wifi :)

[keoerin]

Just digging.

A blue point on radar is running next to me, a cuttler hits my head.

Melee protection aura and some casts later the 2! cuttlers brought from the blue point are peacefull down.

"Damn blind Homin."

Just digging.

A blue point on Radar is running next to me, the same blue point on the way back wherever. Now 3 Cuttler ... I'm peacefull down.

Just passing.