Quote Originally Posted by Unittj View Post
Hang on, if meth is based on your overall perception score...and all you do is meth and you get dawnborne or the exclusive items? What's your perception score? Lol it must be WAY higher than mine. I still have to use Utmost Caution and Single Mind to get anything.
Meth-meth-meth gets you crystals and possibly clusters, which many consider valuable enough to be worth bothering to collect.

That said, I'm usually after landborn/leafborn. so if I don't see at least the 97% rare item (and usually if I don't see the 95% item) I just close the ephermeral node, go open/close two other nodes to respawn the ephermeral node, and try again until the 95% (or 97% if time is running out) shows up. You do not have to mine the ephemeral to respawn it.