Legendary Nodes Gathering Requirement

Is it possible with the current available gears to gather legendary nodes @ 85% to 100% chance without food? If so, what is the required gathering?

Im currently 669 with 81% (before buff) chance on nodes. I use sharp vision II to get 96% but RNG sucks and kills my rotation. Wonder if i could get it to 100% (without food) with the available upgrades - i180 gears


TIA

I have I think an 85% (may be 84 or 86) chance on those nodes with 721 gathering. That's with all i180 (except headgear, but that adds no gathering), HQ adamantite sledge hammer (no melds) and max melded level 50 accessories.

I am currently using all i150 except mainhand, which is i180. I get 83%. I think when I get the 2 star crafted offhand, it'll reach over 85%, which means 100% when I spend 100 GP on Sharp Vision II / Field Mastery II.

With this information, we can safely guess that i180 mainhand + 2 star offhand can do you the magic of 100% without food.

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Originally Posted by Caimie_Tsukino

I am currently using all i150 except mainhand, which is i180. I get 83%. I think when I get the 2 star crafted offhand, it'll reach over 85%, which means 100% when I spend 100 GP on Sharp Vision II / Field Mastery II.

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Not necessarily, it depends on your melds. I have the i180 MH, i170 OH, and chimerical felt/serpentskin/dragonskin/hardsilver gear. With melds my stats are G705/P717/GP614, but I still only get 83% (98% with Sharp Vision II / Field Mastery II) on Sun Mica, Blue Quartz, Wattle Bark, and that ilk.

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Originally Posted by Silverbane

Not necessarily, it depends on your melds. I have the i180 MH, i170 OH, and chimerical felt/serpentskin/dragonskin/hardsilver gear. With melds my stats are G705/P717/GP614, but I still only get 83% (98% with Sharp Vision II / Field Mastery II) on Sun Mica, Blue Quartz, Wattle Bark, and that ilk.

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Of course it depends on melds. But judging by the fact that kenventa has 669 gathering already before having the i180 mainhand, the prediction should be pretty close...
http://i.imgur.com/GXlXg9Z.png

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Originally Posted by Nutz

I have I think an 85% (may be 84 or 86) chance on those nodes with 721 gathering. That's with all i180 (except headgear, but that adds no gathering), HQ adamantite sledge hammer (no melds) and max melded level 50 accessories.

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Lvl 50 accessories? 2014 called, they want their gear back :p

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Originally Posted by Nomad-phx

Lvl 50 accessories? 2014 called, they want their gear back :p

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I guess you mean 2013

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Originally Posted by ServerCollaps

I guess you mean 2013

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I guess they're both correct, I was referring to exp lvl 50, hadn't considered ilvl 50 lol

After some fiddling and melding, I got 85% finally with 727 Gathering. 722 was 84%, 701 was 83%. I would hazard a guess that 725 might be the magic number.

My gear at 701 Gathering, which is what I had before I tried to hit this cap, was the i180 MH, HQ i170 OH without melds, full HQ serpentskin set with only 6 total Gathering melded onto it, and the full HQ i170 accessories and belt with 42 Gathering melded across them. I hit 727 by throwing 16 Gathering onto the offhand, and melding +5 onto one of the serpentskin pieces. Had to meld another +5 onto another piece to finally get 727. My melds were sloppy and focused mainly on GP and Perception with the serpentskin stuff, so I am guessing you could probably get the same results without any of the i170 accessories.

Thanks everyone! This helps a lot.