Quote Originally Posted by Kherza View Post
So it came to my attention today that the Ward skills seem fairly useless at level 50. So long as you have 600+ GP these skills offer no real benefit over the +2 yield abilities. While leveling up they were somewhat useful to get more crystals but at level 50 I can't see any reason to use them over the +2 yield abilities. True, the Wards are 100 GP cheaper to use, but they do the same thing. But what are you going to use that extra GP on? With 600 GP you already have enough for the +15% gather putting you at 100% chance or very near. You can't HQ Clusters/Carbonized matter either obviously.

Am I missing something? Or is the sole reason to use Wards over +2 yield just to save yourself 100GP wait time for the next node?
Why not? It's not much, but its something. You don't wait, you just keep gathering and use the Ward again when it comes up. And the Ward will come up more often than King's Yield II would.