Node is being racist, should I report it?

[LineageRazor]

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

Sadly, the enormous cooldowns on potions, coupled with their brief duration, means that this is not really so. Anyone who wishes to take advantage of 5-hit nodes likely wants to do it over and over again during a single gathering session. Potion cooldowns mean they can only take advantage of the 5-hit node once every five minutes (or 4 min, 30 seconds for HQ). A gatherer rotating between nodes will come back to that 5-hit node WAY more often than that, so the actual benefits are pretty minimal.

[BobbinT]

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BTW, if you don't mind, I want to refer your post to my thread here. Almost forgot about this since we last talked. ^^

[Keewee]

Forager Wristguards NQ

Guerdon III
Guerdon III
Guile III

= max stats and not a single overmeld

melding a str +2 with ~40% success shouldnt be a prob

Think you meant HQ gloves, but you've got a point; I didn't expect Forager gear to be fully capped with 3 materia, that's interesting!

On a side note, this thread wasn't meant to really be serious, it's just that being a lalafell is hard sometimes Thanks for taking the time for an explanation, Grekumah, though!

[Rhode]

Strength attribute should have no effect on gathering.

[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.

[BlaiseArath]

When i was leveling it, I used to just equip the DoW/M accessories I had if I didnt meet the requirements. I mean, 2 STR, couldn't you just throw on a STR ring in place of your other ring before beginning to gather at that spot? No melds required and it takes a whole couple seconds to equip. I don't think losing a couple CP/Gather/Perception will matter much on those level 50 nodes... you should be capping anyway, or at least close enough.

I understand where people are coming from, I just don't agree it needs to be adjusted. There are solutions, and not all of them requires larges amounts of money or wasted meld slots.

[Mishini_Dracoto]

I actually love this mechanic. At one point, I recall thinking that I should be getting bonuses on Nodes where I wasn't. I now know that it's because I am a Seawolf, I need to meld +INT onto my character to make up the difference. I'll verify the nodes and meld some extra INT onto my glvoes or something later tonight or sometime this weekend.

[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!

[ServerCollaps]

Think you meant HQ gloves, but you've got a point; I didn't expect Forager gear to be fully capped with 3 materia, that's interesting!

On a side note, this thread wasn't meant to really be serious, it's just that being a lalafell is hard sometimes Thanks for taking the time for an explanation, Grekumah, though!

oh ya sry, but you basically dont need HQ to hit all caps

[Alistaire]

Think you meant HQ gloves, but you've got a point; I didn't expect Forager gear to be fully capped with 3 materia, that's interesting!

On a side note, this thread wasn't meant to really be serious, it's just that being a lalafell is hard sometimes Thanks for taking the time for an explanation, Grekumah, though!

No he's quite possibly right, or at least on the right track. Several of the i60 crafted left side are very easily maxed even from nq status.