Questions about seemingly useless gathering skills.

Deep Breath
What point does this skill serve that can't be done by just using 3x utmost cation for the same GP cost? And how often would anyone use 3 utmost cation anyways.

Last Ditch
Who would want to mine anything beyond an items wear at 10%? Yes there is a lot of RNG now but every rotation i know of is better then 10%.

Luck of the mountaineer
What is the point to revealing hidden items when you have already used up your swings?

Hoping there is something i am missing about these skills.

I've only ever used Deep Breath when testing it out initially and I've literally never used Last Ditch, so I'd be interested to hear if anyone's put these to good use as well.

Luck of the Mountaineer has a niche use in forcing treasure maps to pop. If you find one of those nodes that gives you a native +30% HQ chance and pop the +30% HQ skill on top of that, there's a pretty good chance that your first three swings will enable it. (Note that level 60 nodes seem to only have one type of map or the other even if you use this.)

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Originally Posted by PirateCat

Luck of the Mountaineer has a niche use in forcing treasure maps to pop. If you find one of those nodes that gives you a native +30% HQ chance and pop the +30% HQ skill on top of that, there's a pretty good chance that your first three swings will enable it. (Note that level 60 nodes seem to only have one type of map or the other even if you use this.)

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Have you tried this personally with maps? I have been told it does not work on them.

Did it once on the aforementioned +30% HQ node in Churning Mists. The node spawned a wyvernskin map. I didn't grab it since I was looking for a dragonskin and then I found one the normal way before I saw the +30% bonus again, but it does work in general.

I suppose it's theoretically possible that some nodes might have no hidden map at all even with the timer allowing it, but I don't have a lot of data points to work with.

Urgh, maps? I was hoping the hidden items would be something special and exciting. Not that I've had three HQ in a row where I've had an extra hit available to use it though.