Max value of gathering skills

Is there any reason to advance the Foraging, Mining, Forestry and Field Dressing skills to beyond 100?

 

Yes, it raises your critical success chance. Which is almost an instant harvest.

 

However you can raise your skils both temporarily (e.g. drinks, blessings) and with equipment so there is no sense to go beyond 160.

 

Some nodes (like tier 10) are vary hard to harvest. Higher skill makes it easier.

[edit] Well of Aldur cotton node, 120 gathering and I still failed four times.

 

I don't think anything raises those specific gathering skills. Only the skill as far as I know.

For example to mine in Tanglemire and get a 100% success rate, I believe you need 120 mining.

 

Mining, forestry, field gathering and foraging +4%
https://sotawiki.net/sota/2_Year_Whiskey

 

That's for gathering time. It has nothing to do with the base skills.

For the base skills, I think when you hit 149 you get a maximum 50% crit chance. So after that it wouldn't help to raise it.

There is no food that raises those base skills that I know of.