Hi does anyone know how skill correlates to herb quality.
The herbalism journal states that I need 120 skill to gather hochenblume at max level, I am curently at 122 but still gathering rank 2 herbs.
What do I need to gather rank 3 herbs?
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i honestly couldn’t say i’m at 155 and i still mostly get silver herbs, sometimes gold, and never bronze unless i empower windswept/decayed/frigid herbs.
Edit - Also at 110 herbalism with herbing tool.
At 182 for Writhebark and I don’t get too many golds.
At the listed skill you start being able to gather rank 3s. It is a probability thing. The higher you get your skill the higher % of r3s you will get. I suspect based on how other parts of the system work you would need to get to double the listed skill to guarantee r3s.
I’m at 151 for plain Hochenblume which if the above is true means I get about (151-120)/120 = 26% rank 3s and that seems about what I’m finding although I don’t pay that much attention.
I’m wondering just how much the system design is relying on the Herb Refining skill to achieve Rank 3 Herbs. I am guessing not much, because as it stands, 1 R3 of any herb is not worth 5 R2s.
That said, I think it’s a reasonable assumption that most of us simply lack the herbalism skill and knowledge to consistently pick up R3s. Keep in mind the importance of crafting equipment. If anyone with 3 pieces of Rare Quality Herbalism Gear can share their experience in Herbalism, I would be very interested in knowing.
I kind of get that this is the case (probability) kind of like how inspiration works on the crafting professions.
However a tooltip update would be nice, setting the actual skill level required for 100% gather rate, and the proc rate for higher gathers.
This inspiration-like proc rate brings it in line with the rest of the professions in the game, it’s just annoying that the in-game tooltip and information doesn’t reflect the reality like it does in other professions.
My herbalist’s skills:
140 in all herbs
217 in all Writhebark
202 in all elemental herbs
207 in Titan (currently working to max this one)
262 in elemental Writhebark
267 in Titan Writebark
I get rank 3 pretty often and I never get rank 1. I’d say we will probably only ever get rank 3s once we max our trees.
It never will be. you can turn 5 rank 2 into 1 rank 3, so if the price of rank 2’s is ever 1/5th or lower than a rank 3, they are instantly going to all be bought up, converted up a rank for a profit. Even if rank 2’s are exactly 1/5th the price, it will still happen due to resourcefulness & multicraft.
258 for elemental Writhebark and 213 for regular Writhebark and I still hardly get rank 3 Writhebark. About 1/4.