Quote Originally Posted by Magnesium02 View Post
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 ><