Originally Posted by
StateAlchemist
I have 166 Perception with food and I am still missing +Perception pieces. Now! One thing to consider... when seeing if +Perception gives you more HQ you can;t just look at what your aiming at. You have to look at "Out of X number of successful gathering attempts, Y number of times I got HQ items." A lot of people look at it as "Out of X number of times mining Electrum Ore, Y number of times it was HQ." That is where a lot of people get the sense of +Perception is useless. As far as HQ goes, I get a lot more HQ successful gathers then I did before. My goal is to hit about 175 Perception. Now one important thing to remember is to boost your DoL's STAT. For miner it is VIT/MND. VIT affects your success rate(And remainder usage**untested**) and the activation of the following abilities: Earthen Favor, Nald'thal's Ward, Deep Vigor, Stone Resolve, Truth of Mountains, and Fingerprint of the Gods. MND affects your Rare Item/HQ Rate and the activation of the following abilities: Sharp Vision, Menphina's Ward, Solid Reason, King's Yield, and Master of Rock.
So in other words. To completely maximize your chance for HQ items you want to stack as much MND and Perception as possible (for Miner). The only ability you will want set when going for HQ items, by the way, is Master of Rock.
Hope this helps.