Max Perception for Unspoiled Nodes

[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%.

[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.