The nodes affected by stats are the Mining node in North Thanalan (requires 202 STR) and the Botany node in South Thanalan (reqired 202 INT). As a Moon miqote I am 2 STR and 1 INT short of meeting these requrements. Previously when gathering I would swap out a ring for a DD ring. When I got my Foragers gear, I actually melded a STR and INT materia to my gloves to meet the cap. So I wouldn’t have to fiddle with rings

Since the greatest a stat deviation can be is 3 I would have thought SE would have made the requirements the natural base (202) less three (so 199), but they didn't, so we just gotta deal with it by melding or gear swap