Node is being racist, should I report it?

[whiskeybravo]

Suddenly, those STR potions became a lot more useful...

I never thought of using a stat potion for gathering lol.. Interesting indeed.. Would usually just throw on a dps accessory or use melds.

Learn something new everyday lol

[HaelseMikiro]

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

Yeah, Seeker of the Sun here, melded 2 INT to a ring. Although seeing the suggestions to join a party, or carry around low level stat pots to get that extra gather once every few times around the gathering circuit are interesting think-outside-the-box ideas, I'm still looking through my CUL Masterbooks for some recipes with main stats on them. Guess that doesn't really relate to the thread at all, unless there's racial differences between gathering and perception I'm unaware of.....

And I certainly hope there's currently no plans to widen the racial stat gap (which has been constant from levels 1-50) to a point where certain node bonuses are unreasonable to achieve for certain races ><

[Nutz]

Yeah, Seeker of the Sun here, melded 2 INT to a ring. Although seeing the suggestions to join a party, or carry around low level stat pots to get that extra gather once every few times around the gathering circuit are interesting think-outside-the-box ideas, I'm still looking through my CUL Masterbooks for some recipes with main stats on them...

I'll save you some time and tell you that since 2.0 there aren't any foods that add base stats (except VIT, which all combat food adds). Potions add primary stats (for amusingly short durations) while food adds secondary stats and vitality.

This is less of a problem since Forager's gear as others have shown. I always use one of my MNK's rings when mining cobalt though since I haven't made any Forager's equipment yet (except sledgehammer) and there's literally no difference in performance on that node (or the botany node in Southern Thanalan) by removing a ring if you have more than a few melds.

[BobbinT]

I wonder if there's any info somewhere that tells you nodes that requires certain minimum stats... :?

[Ymal]

lol welp I'm personally not going to bother carrying special foods or potions (don't those last like 15s anyway?) in my already too clustered inventory just for one node, I wans't expecting or asking for any changes though, I just thought it was kind of unnecessary to have just one or two buff that some race couldn't reach despite reaching lvl50 like for all the other gathering buffs.

[Kiyyto]

As was stated, meld str into gear... Problem solved.

[morerancor]

Really seems like an unnecessary complication. Having only played one race I never noticed I was being discriminated against. :/ having to overmeld ( overtaxed) because of my race is unethical.

[Rhode]

Strength attribute should have no effect on gathering.

[LineageRazor]

Strength attribute should have no effect on gathering.

Yeah! Why should smashing rocky outcrops to bits with a twenty pound sledgehammer for hours at a time have anything to do with strength? It's so silly!

[aerolol]

I never knew that those 1-2 extra racial points would have a significant difference O.o

I'm a hellsguard and my weak stats is DEX...
i'm sure i've seen some Botanist nodes that require DEX, but I think i can get the extra gathering hit in all nodes.