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I was a Master Ranger for those that remember me. Then I dropped down to 1-0-4-0, being Master Ranger was not worth the points. Can someone tell me if the +60 at Master Ranger to Harvesting is worth getting MR back? Anyone have numbers to back up that the bonus actually works? (as opposed to the droids and veghash dropping significantly after Scout) If you look at the math, the bonus means you should harvest 50% more than before. So, if you could harvest 200 Wooly Hide before, you should be able to harvest 300 now, right? If the formula is broken just like Veghash and droids, then I won't bother. They'll have to make Master Ranger worth getting for me to get it. Please, looking for hard numbers, not opinions and whatnot. Thanks.

If +creature harvesting is all you care about. No, it's not worth the points. Get 0040 and in a group and reap the 20% bonus.

Unles of course your character is a Jedi alt and you want to make cash/track as a Master Ranger, which seems to be the new FotM

No man, I care about a lot. I don't have Ranger to make money. i really don't need to. Actually, most of what I harvest I either give away free to needy people or barter (my meats for a crate of Brandy, etc.). Nor do I care about the bonus since Im a loner when I hunt. But I think Im gonna go MR just to see what the numbers are, since I can't find numbers on the forum anywhere. If it's borked, then I'll drop it again.

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Puck_Starfire wrote:
I was a Master Ranger for those that remember me. Then I dropped down to 1-0-4-0, being Master Ranger was not worth the points. Can someone tell me if the +60 at Master Ranger to Harvesting is worth getting MR back? Anyone have numbers to back up that the bonus actually works? (as opposed to the droids and veghash dropping significantly after Scout) If you look at the math, the bonus means you should harvest 50% more than before. So, if you could harvest 200 Wooly Hide before, you should be able to harvest 300 now, right? If the formula is broken just like Veghash and droids, then I won't bother. They'll have to make Master Ranger worth getting for me to get it. Please, looking for hard numbers, not opinions and whatnot. Thanks.

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The creature harvest mod was never a percentage (which is why a master ranger @ 100 skill harvested only 38% more than a master scout @ 50 skill, rather than 50% more)... So, the new bonus of 150 creature harvest mod doesn't give us an extra 50% increase.

The formula is something like:
(1 + harvesting mod/100) * base harvest amount... more or less.
(thanks to Lythender and Obata for figuring that out).

Basically, at 150, we now harvest approx. 25% more than we used to at 100.
And, if you're grouped, you can add 20% on top of that... 30% if your group has a ranger... and 40% if there's another master ranger in your group.

truthfully man, i've found ranger to not justify the means of all those skill points now, its basically a useless skill at the moment.