Mining stats questions

I just got to level 110 in mining and I am still at 93% chance. I am sure that I was at that even before 100.

I had a look at the /stats and I see these entries for mining:
MiningLevel: 0
MiningCritical: 0

The only mining related stats that have any non-zero values are related to
gathering time, survey distance, and extra node chance.

Is this normal?

Is there any reason to raise Mining above the 90s? Does anything change?

 

Not sure what effects the Mining skill, and others, have on harvesting, as many of the tool tips are vague; i.e. Skill in Mining. In Universe chat a couple nights ago Atos mentioned that Survey Mining would be fixed soon. I tried to ask what that entails, but got no answer. We will just have to wait and see.

 

Well I won't hold my breath...

It just seems to me to be terrible UX to level a skill over and over... more than 10 times in this case... and not see any signs of advancement.

At least with other skills where the value seems to stay the same you could get into the /stats and see that there indeed was a small change.
"Oh I guess I did increase in 'skill X' by 0.02. It just is rounded off in the main display."

I mean what is this? -> MiningLevel: 0

 

Well, for skinning the higher and higher levels help you skin high level stuff like dragons and phoenixes, never above 93%, but I don't know of any mega nodes or super trees =o

 

I got news for you... it won't get much better either...



That's offline mode with modified stats maxed to 200 across the board and using a Prosperity Pickaxe (although that does not affect success chance)... and the success chance is still only 96%.

If you are lucky and work for a long time, you might be able to get your mining skills to 140 or 150 in the real game online. So I'm guessing the best you will ever be able to achieve is 94 or 95 percent chance.

 

It could be that the skill just isn't being reported in Stats. I have noticed in the past that as my mining skill got higher that I would get an increase in the Initial ore that I would get; instead of getting 1 ore, it sometimes was 2, and then 3. This doesn't happen every time, but I notice it happens more often now at L108, than when I was at L80. Maybe @Daxxe Diggler can confirm what happens at 200.

 

At skill 200, I was seeing more sets of 2 ores than 1 ores, that's for sure. However, my meticulous was also at 200 so that might be a part of that too.

For example, the ore gained from that screenshot was:
[11/7/2018 1:47:12 PM] [1:47 PM] You harvested an item (Iron Ore x2).
[11/7/2018 1:47:12 PM] [1:47 PM] You harvested an item (Iron Ore x2).
[11/7/2018 1:47:12 PM] [1:47 PM] You harvested an item (Iron Ore x2).
[11/7/2018 1:47:12 PM] [1:47 PM] You harvested an item (Granite Block x6).
[11/7/2018 1:47:12 PM] [1:47 PM] You harvested an item (Iron Ore x2).

The one before that (I forgot to open skills window to show my skills in the screenshot) was:

[11/7/2018 1:45:20 PM] [1:45 PM] You harvested an item (Iron Ore x2).
[11/7/2018 1:45:20 PM] [1:45 PM] You harvested an item (Iron Ore x2).
[11/7/2018 1:45:20 PM] [1:45 PM] You harvested an item (Iron Ore x2).
[11/7/2018 1:45:20 PM] [1:45 PM] You harvested an item (Iron Ore x2).
[11/7/2018 1:45:20 PM] [1:45 PM] You harvested an item (Granite Block x4).

So yea, I would agree that a higher Mining skill might result in more 2 ore pulls than 1 ore pulls per round. Can't confirm for sure, but I don't seem to get many 1 ore pulls any more with this test character so it does sound likely that a higher Mining skill gives you higher success chance AND higher yields per swing.

 

I wonder if it effects the amount of nickel, tin and tungsten too. Im guessing it does.

 

I wasn't talking about the Meticulous gathers, just the 1st one you get. I'm currently getting 1-3 Ore on the 1st gather. As far as the 1st Meticulous or more, I always get 1. Are you sometimes getting 2 on Meticulous gathers?