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Rubeweed

What has been your experience using rubeweed to get the Luck of the Rube to increase gem drops?  I was somewhat surprised (dismayed!) to find that shucking a rubeweed only produced one seed and that seed only produced two rubeweed plants.  This seemed an awfully small return for the long trek to the community herb gardens.  I only had Herbalism I at the time and have now finished H II, so maybe the return will be improved.

Anyway, I only used one weed for the buff while mining, needing to save the other one for more seed.   (I know, I know, I can buy the stuff, but I have this pathological aversion to buying anything I can make/grow myself.)  I can't say as I noticed any particular increase in gems while on the buff.  Has it proved beneficial to you?

Posted 16 months ago by Hawkwell Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Try using it in the ancestral lands
    Posted 16 months ago by IxÆoN Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yeah, I haven't noticed any improved drops while mining at all. If there is an increase in percentage, it's so small that it doesn't make a difference.
    Posted 16 months ago by The Crepeist Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thinking about about the name of the herb.  Maybe only a rube would think taking it would do any good.  ;-)
    Posted 16 months ago by Hawkwell Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've never noticed any improvement except with the spinning wheel (which seems to give me lots of music blocks while on rubeweed)...even in ancestral lands, I'd swear I get better drops without the rubeweed (which seems to only give me time increase or paper).  No difference noticed in gardening or mining for me thus far.
    Posted 16 months ago by b3achy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It gives me a lot more loam while digging...Not sure about gems though.
    Posted 16 months ago by Kira Bajira Subscriber! | Permalink
  • one word.... placebo
    Posted 16 months ago by c0mad0r Subscriber! | Permalink
  • How sad to be disappointed with such an enchanted seed.
    Posted 16 months ago by napabeth Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I mined two complete dullites under the rubeweed influence and got one amber. Pleasing though that amber was, I believe I typically get more and better gems sans rubeweed. I was rubed.
    Posted 16 months ago by justpeace Subscriber! | Permalink
  • We all know that Rube is a scoundrel... so what do you expect ?
    Posted 16 months ago by napabeth Subscriber! | Permalink
  • With a face such as his, a wooden face, an expressionless face, be cautious. Would you want him to marry your daughter?
    Posted 16 months ago by napabeth Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Heheh, you haven't seen my daughter's boyfriend, Napabeth. But seriously, where I come from a rube is a country simpleton rather than a scoundrel. Neither really should have given me hope for luck, I s'pose.
    Posted 16 months ago by justpeace Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Never noticed any improvements either. Actually, sometimes I do better without it (quite a lucky girl here, lol).
    Posted 16 months ago by Lexi Smart Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I blame the rube for our poor ROI from rubeweed: farm7.static.flickr.com/619...

    I mean, who can trust a face like THAT?
    Posted 16 months ago by c0mad0r Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The Rube suffers from Karl Malden syndrome. Look at the bulbous proboscis. He slithers up and gives me the big eye. 
    "Do you want to trade?"   he asks. I want to slap his ugly face but I succumb. Yes.
    His simple minded exchange makes me laugh. But. sometimes, with the Rube, like the Hunchback of Notre Dame, you get a good deal.
    Posted 16 months ago by napabeth Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The Rube is so named because HE is the Rube.  He routinely offers an item of greater value in exchange for an item of lesser value.  Unfortunately, he hasn't been around much so people don't know what the dealio is with him.

    ETA:  on the subject of Rubeweed, I can't actually tell if it's doing anything at all.  Placebo isn't really the right expression here, snake oil might be more applicable...
    Posted 16 months ago by Nanookie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • so we need to test it next test.

    i'll do 30 minutes with rubeweed and count the gems and someone else can do 30 without it and count the gems.
    Posted 16 months ago by striatic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Maybe if we munch the herb rubeweed he won't be such a stranger.  I miss the mixed up con artist who cheats himself.  He made me laugh with his carney type come ons for trades.
    Posted 16 months ago by xoxJulie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I thought it was supposed to be clear that you are the rube here... and he is just the one who calls himself The Rube... ;D
    Posted 16 months ago by FlirtyvonSexenhaven Subscriber! | Permalink
  • He does not call himself The Rube, that is what we call him.  He calls himself the Donald.  :D
    Posted 16 months ago by Nanookie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • What we call The Rube lacks a combover so he cannot possibly think he is The Donald.
    Posted 16 months ago by napabeth Subscriber! | Permalink
  • That is a really good point.  But does the Donald know he has combover? Or does he experience it as the world's deepest, most deluxe hair part, achievable only by someone as powerful as himself?
    Posted 16 months ago by Nanookie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Perhaps The Donald's hair is like that of Samson... Were he to lose it he would  also    lose his power so let's hope he doesn't have male pattern baldness !    I can't imagine the world without The Donald, a Presidential hopeful? He has no timidity when it comes to what he thinks he can do.
    Posted 16 months ago by napabeth Subscriber! | Permalink
  • DT is too old to go bald.  Maybe he believes if you have enough money people won't notice his hair style really sucks.  The king has no clothes syndrome, not like Rascal she is absolutely aware that she is naked.
    Posted 16 months ago by xoxJulie Subscriber! | Permalink