Heya Folks!

I attempted to do some testing with the new foraging items that were added (Thanks TT Team!) and found that wild berries are easily found in terrain that generates a harvest spawn. In the harvest spawn room, I was able to get 15 second collects with no spell buffs and this bonus messaging: You open your mouth and throw back your head, howling with a tentative but fairly resonant tone that wavers only slightly.

In a forest spawn room, with the same bonus level I was getting 30 collects with wild berries. I did a quick transfer beseech, to get up to full bonus and got collects at 22 seconds. I then tried casting WS at different mana to see the bonus changes and collect times. I also remembered perception should be taken into account with foraging and saw changes in collect time with only SOTT on. Tried the same with only WOTP on too. If I had access to an Intel buff, I would test if increased Intel helps to contribute to lower collect times.

Some Static Stuff:
-bright, cheery blue weather
-day time
-Not kneeling
-hand armor on
-no wounds
-5 collects were used.

With a combined perception, outdoorsmanship, and stats with spells:

Effective Outdoormanship	Effective Perception	Effective Foraging Ranks	Spell	Int	Wis	Average Collect Time
1632	1750	3382	none	110	110	23.6 seconds
1778	1750	3528	WS	110	110	15.6 seconds
1795	1750	3545	WS	110	110	15.4 seconds
1811	1750	3561	WS	110	110	15 seconds
1632	1907	3539	SOTT	110	110	17.6 seconds
1632	1925	3557	SOTT	110	110	15 seconds
1632	1750	3382	WOTP	110	123	16.8 seconds
1632	1750	3382	WOTP	110	125	16.2 seconds
1632	1750	3382	WOTP	110	126	15.6 seconds
1632	1750	3382	WOTP	110	128	15 seconds

It looks like with my mentals and ranger bonus included the target combined skills should be around 3550 ranks to get consistent 15 second collects. If I can get the same weather conditions, I'll try this test with a neutral bonus, kneeling, and with armor off (and maybe a tanked bonus, eww!). Anyone want to do the math to see how mentals contribute to the Effective Foraging Ranks?

Other quick collect notes, no spells and full bonus:
stony spawn = 30 seconds
water spawn = 22-25 seconds / night = 30 second
thorny spawn = 15 seconds / night = 15 seconds
grassy spawn = night = 30 seconds
plague spawn (indoors and max wilderness room) = 30 seconds

-Kivi, berry collector

Awesome data. Can you tell me what you are doing to boost effective perception between that 17.2 second data and the 16 second data? I see the same spell suite listed.

~Hunter Hanryu
>I would like to avoid the collection of broken dreams and sorrow that is the Ranger guild.~Agalea