Max Perception for Unspoiled Nodes

[NefGP]

How much do you need to reach the 15% soft cap?

[Sleigh]

You can't. I have 382 Perception, and there's very, very little for me to add to that until I'm completely maxed on Perception; I have a base 5% on Unspoiled Node items.

It's a pretty big rip-off if you ask me. It'll take a long, long time for those few percentage points to pay off the hundreds of thousands of gil I spent to go from 1% to 5%.

[NefGP]

So that only reaffirms my claims in another thread that perception materia is trash.

ugh, just capping GP (+27...) and gathering alone is gonna suck.

[SulwynCaliope]

You can't. I have 382 Perception, and there's very, very little for me to add to that until I'm completely maxed on Perception; I have a base 5% on Unspoiled Node items.

It's a pretty big rip-off if you ask me. It'll take a long, long time for those few percentage points to pay off the hundreds of thousands of gil I spent to go from 1% to 5%.

So it's not worth it to invest in materia + food to try and get a better HQ rate?

[Kherza]

So it's not worth it to invest in materia + food to try and get a better HQ rate?

Simple Answer: No.

1% is enough to unlock HQ on node swings. If you really want that extra 3-4% then by all means you can invest hundreds of thousands of gil on Perception materia and food. But it really isn't worth it. At lvl 50 MIN/BTN you should aim for 600GP and 340 Gathering total (you get 321 Perception from full HQ set). Any more GP and Perception than this provides very little benefit for the amount of gil that it costs.

[Bufkus]

Perception will probably become more useful in an expansion when they add higher nodes, but yeah, wouldn't worry about it now.

[Gurpsmeister]

for unspoiled nodes, make sure you have 600 GP, 100% gathering and eat some food to suplement the HQ after you pop the 30% boost. That's as good as its guna get for ya

[FrancisBean]

so you can push your gathering up to 100% with out buffs? whats the gathering number that gets you there? thats unfortunate that all that perception doesn't help all that much

[Sleigh]

so you can push your gathering up to 100% with out buffs? whats the gathering number that gets you there? thats unfortunate that all that perception doesn't help all that much

90% is the natural cap.

[arindred]

for unspoiled nodes, 90% for non clusters and 95% for clusters i believe is the gathering cap