It is also widely regarded that the percentage chance to pull a rare on the base table is in fact .3%.DominoDev wrote:For those who don't know what I'm referring to with the bonus result tables, harvesting works as follows. (If you really don't care about details you can skip this bit.)
For each node in each zone, when you harvest it, there are different result tables set up that tell the game what to give you when you harvest. Your skill level determines which table you use.
For example, using entirely invented numbers, let's imagine that there is a root node in a level 30-40 zone and you go and harvest it with a gathering skill of 190.
The game sees that the root node points to two result tables. Let's call them:
T4_roots_base_result - required skill 140
T4_roots_bonus_result - required skill 189
The "base" table might tell you that you have a 70% chance of getting 1 root, a 20% chance of getting 3 roots, an 8% chance of getting 5 roots, a 1% chance of getting an imbue, a 0.7% chance of getting a rare root, and a 0.3% chance of getting a rare root + 10 common ones.
The "bonus" table might tell you that you have a 60% chance of getting 1 root, a 25% chance of getting 3 roots, an 10% chance of getting 5 roots, a 0.5% chance of getting an imbue, a 0.8% chance of getting a rare root, and a 0.7% chance of getting a rare root + 10 common ones.
<span style="font-size: xx-small">(Yes, the numbers probably don't add up to 100%, I just invented them on the spot.)
Now we know that if your skill is under 140, you can't harvest the node at all. And we know your skill is 190. So the RNG rolls a number between 140 and 190. If it gets 140-188, you use the "base" result table. If it gets 189+, you use the "bonus" result table. Clearly, as your gathering skill increases, your chance of using the "bonus" result table gets better. (This is where +harvesting skill items affect your results, they increase your chance of using the bonus table.)
As of GU37, you get to start using the "bonus" table at level _8 (so, 8, 18, 28, 38, etc.) You're still not guaranteed to use it, but you have a CHANCE to use it. Previous to GU37, the level at which you could start getting the bonus was much higher, so that you didn't even have a chance to get the bonus table until you had entirely outlevelled the tier. In T6 and T7 prior to GU37 we still couldn't even start using the bonus level at level 70 with 350 skill, so we've been harvesting off the "base" table all this time. Now we will begin to have a chance to use the "bonus" level, so yes, we'll get slightly better harvesting results in T6 and T7 than we were before, but it's actually about the same results as we would eventually have got as the level cap raised and we continued to level up.
Incidentally, all nodes within a level range (in this example, all nodes in level 30-40 zones) point to the same result tables, so it makes no difference whether you're harvesting in one zone or another.
The harvesting options Domino lists are also the only possible results of a harvest- 1, 3, or 5 common items, 1 imbue item, 1 rare item, or 1 rare + 10 common items.
I am not sure if that helps you LE.
:p and I will do my best to remember to read before asking my first question! 
Actually you going to be around later tonight? If so I'd like to test it on your server with all the spells and such setup. Do you have Mining, Fishing, Gathering, Trapping, and Foresting skills set up for every character? They will need those skills. Also do you have the basic spell information setup for the spells above? If not could you get them added in the next few hours if you have time? For the LUA scripts for those spells just call a function called Harvest(Caster, Target). The code will take care of the rest. I should have the code finished sometime in the next 2-3 hours unless I hit a snag.