Quote Originally Posted by Nekodar View Post
Example: Cloud Mica... Level 58 item... I have level 60 Miner with Gathering 556.
It shows up as 95%.
On some nodes I get a bonus for having gathering over 498. Putting me at 100%.

Does the bonus do anything for me? Certainly!
Quote Originally Posted by Vandril View Post
The bonuses do make sense. I've had just above the gathering needed for these bonuses at each tier of node in HW, and at that time I was usually ~90% gathering chance, sometimes as low as 85% for the higher level items from the nodes and even 77% for the treasure maps. So, there IS a purpose, it's just...usually the +25% chance bonus is a wee bit overkill.
Ah, so I was missing something. I assumed it would be 100% by the time you met the requirements. That's all I was looking for, thanks. :P