Craft Level vs Resource Level

[Troubador]

Prolly a dumb question, but my Harvesting Skill is nearing 250, and my Lumbering and Quarrying Skills are both around 120. Obviously I can harvest level 2 resources. But as level 8/9 Artificer, I've never seen any Work Orders on the Taskmasters that use level 2 resources. I'm assuming that when I hit level 10 Artificer that opportunity will open up, correct?!?

If this IS the case, then is there any reason why a person would want to let their harvesting skills get significantly ahead of what they can craft with???

[Ysharros]

At level 11 you'll see a quest to open up the next tier of stuff (used to be 10).

If this IS the case, then is there any reason why a person would want to let their harvesting skills get significantly ahead of what they can craft with???

Well, they're not related skills. You can craft without harvesting or harvest without crafting, so it doesn't really matter what the relative values are. For your own use though, you're right - but since you can harvest with others, having decent skills will mean better goodness all round.

[Jelonna]

Doesn't really matter as Ysharros said. You can harvest for the purpose of supplying crafters who don't care to harvest themselves. Also presumably since your harvesting is so high you'll have a good supply of mats without having to stop and harvest as much. Aannnnddd...you'll be less likely to run into a situation where you learn a recipe and you can't yet harvest the mats it needs, or you get into a new zone and find the next tier of resource and can't harvest it yet.