UO Second Age

i started a miner/blacksmith tonight, and i went out with the pick axe that my char started with. i started with 50 blacksmithing and 50 mining. by the time i had mined 28 ingots my pick axe was destroyed. this seems like the item decay is WAY faster then it should be, anyone else noticed this? i have not tried it with shovels just the pick axe.

yes this is very fast and although I don't have concrete evidence on the destruction rates of tools from T2A I know that the pickaxes lasted longer than what they are... I didnt have to carry around 20 pickaxes with me if I went out to mine for 30 mins. Also I think they might even lose durability when you target a mine vein that has been deplete. Even though it says "there is nothing to mine here" it might still count as a hit against the pickaxe's durability. Although I have never had a pickaxe destroyed on this hit though...

do shovels have better durability???
according to the archives under mining it lasts 51 ore
which i have pasted here
http://wiki.uosecondage.com/index.php?title=Mining

Newbie and exceptional items will have their durablity increased dramatically on next restart.