The grinder mystery, The truth is out there... Options

[Ether]

I was poking around gamefaqs today, and came across an interesting message

"Every time my friend (hes a ramar lvl 34) beats a sinow beat or a sinow gold he gets a trigrinder. Right now hes got about 45 of em."

Now this caugh my eye pretty quickly, since I have oh, 5 sranks, and none of them are grinded over 50, a trigrinder goldmine like this would be awesome. But the message is pretty vague, it lacks needed info like his friends section ID, and the difficulty. But I think this may be true, enemies on normal mode have a habit of always dropping the same items, like big monsters always dropping trimates, and the ep 2 mini bosses always dropping star atomizers. I'm gunna go through the mines on normal and hard with all of my characters now, and hopefully post some good results

[HC82]

What I did to fully grind my Sranks was to trade for grinders on a forum(ie. gfaqs trade forum for PSO). I obtained Srank pretty much the same day C7 and C9 released. So I was able to snatch up grinders really easily.

Grinders still trade now seeing how many people don't and never will try or get Srank. Most of the crap on Gfaqs is duped, so if you don't play with dupes how can you possible trade for grinders? High levels tech are a gold mine for low level forces trying to "beef up" there casting. I know at higher levels, finding high level techs is a sinch, so trading them for a few grinders a pop allowed me to make a killing with the grinders. Also mats tend to trade as well, especially luck(although luck mats are so damn hard to get, I wouldn't trade them for grinders. You might get lucky here and there with luck mats, but in general there apperance rate is very low).

If you wanna get grinders you trade for them. If high level techs are hard to come by, this is what I do to get grinders. Play fake in the yellow on ulti(or whatever stage you want, but its better exp). Drop all thoese damn rappies, cast Gifoie and leave the room. The rappies have a small loot table and thus drop many generic items, including grinders, mats, and their usual rare drop. Rappies drop fast to techs and there are soooo many per room that you get alot of items in very little time.