Okay I just got done testing this at Hala on Gold Ore, perception was at 177, does not make any difference....In fact on one node Master of Rock kicked in after the first swing. The next 6 swings were on golden ore and not one hq. So yeah I guess I answered my own question, it still doesn't make any difference what your perception stat is....

Devs? if your reading this, are you going to fix this/ make stats matter in future patches?

Thanks