Guild Wars 2

In Kessex Hills, next to Sojourner’s Way, I chopped down a Gummo Sapling and was given 3 Soft Wood Logs and 2 Ruined Logs. I assume this is a bug, as I’ve only gotten ruined logs when using inferior quality gathering items. Anyone else have this problem?

I think the axe works fine with most of the tier 1 trees, but on the tier 2 trees it has this bug.

Edit: This is what I got from the tree, in order:
1 Walnut, 1 Soft Wood Log, 1 Ruined Log, 1 Hidden Stash, 1 Ruined Log, 1 Soft Wood Log, 1 Soft Wood Log.

were you being attacked by anything at the time.

This happened to me once on Southsun Cove when a reef rider hit me as i was gathering and i got ruined plant fibers.

Honestly, I don’t remember. It’s possible that a centaur was getting ready to trample me while I was chopping.

…yeah, this just kind of happens one time in a million when using a tool that should be able to harvest a node. It’s a known bug.

I got ruined ore chunks from Mithril in Malchor’s today, using my everlasting pick. This has happened a couple of times, with normal picks, in play. Annoying at the moment but not much of an issue in the grand scheme of things.

According to the wiki, if you are taking a certain amount of damage per second while mining ore you will get a ruined ore chunk instead of the proper ore. The same for other types of resource nodes. Source: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ruined_Ore_Chunk (see the Notes)

My guardian never seems to take enough damage per second to receive a ruined ore chunk while my brother who plays an Elementalist has problems with this often. Presumably this is due to the armor difference.

it was also a bug that:
start chopping a tree with an appropriate axe
change which mining pick you’re using
the rest of the tree-chopping would be done with the new mining pick, which gives you ruined logs.
not sure if they fixed this, I haven’t tried it in a while

The ‘it can be ruined while taking damage while mining’ is searching for a reason in a very low probability event. You’ll randomly get ruined ore/logs/fibers very rarely when using any gathering tool, there isn’t any rhyme or reason to it.

Ensign.2189:

The ‘it can be ruined while taking damage while mining’ is searching for a reason in a very low probability event. You’ll randomly get ruined ore/logs/fibers very rarely when using any gathering tool, there isn’t any rhyme or reason to it.

I’ve only ever gotten ruined materials while taking damage, using the correct gathering tool of course. Pretty sure there is a rhyme and reason to it :P

In my experience, if you have an ability that activates while you’re harvesting, then you get ruined. For example, Necros have a trait that gives regeneration when you hit 90% health; with this trait, if a mob hits you to 90% health while you’re chopping, you get ruined.

Lord Kuru.3685:

In my experience, if you have an ability that activates while you’re harvesting, then you get ruined. For example, Necros have a trait that gives regeneration when you hit 90% health; with this trait, if a mob hits you to 90% health while you’re chopping, you get ruined.

This. Engineers swapping kits while harvesting also ruins gathering attempts.