Guild Wars 2

Hi there, my highest level character so far is 17, so I’m not sure if this makes any difference to my question which is, am I the only one who thinks there is a massive scarcity of nodes to harvest. Very rarely I will see a copper node, or a tree to cut down and the odd plant to gather, but these are very rare indeed. Is this intentional, or a bug, either way my opinion is that it needs fixing.

? They are all shown on the map and I think they are quite numerous. Push Ctrl from time to time and you will see a lot of them =)

I think pretty much everyone else in this game has no problems with nodes, its the bloody horrible scarcity of leather and blues..

Pay more attention to your minimap – it’s hard to go anywhere without seeing one or two that lead to one or two more, in my experience. Keep in mind you can come back and harvest them later – it’s all about remembering where they are (especially rich veins for mining!). Each is on a different timer, so once you get a feel for their timers you’ll know when to come back.

You’ll get better nodes when you get into higher level areas, too. I DO wish, however, we could view found nodes on our full map – not just the minimap. That would make it a lot easier to return to lower level maps for nodes (and have them gray out once we’ve harvested them, until they’ve refreshed). How helpful that would be. Oh well.

Anyway, if you’re not exploring a lot then that’s why you’re not finding them. You have to explore more – you can’t just go from point A to point B and expect to find a ton of nodes.

Also, if you’re having problems finding leather, you’re not salvaging enough. Salvage absolutely everything – unless it sells for so much that it would financially impair you NOT to sell it. I’m at about 3g right now and I only sell items worth 1-2s+ but when I was in the 1g range I’d sell anything ~50c+ All depends on your funds.

I also keep 1 extra of each harvesting tool on me at all times, and 1 set of the previous (so 2 sets of iron, 1 copper currently, soon to change), and 2 crude salvage kits (for salvage trophies) and 2 basic (for gear/weapons). This way I also never run out of inventory space, so long as I can take a few minutes to salvage and sell the good stuff on the TP.

I can get pleanty of everything, just have to spend the time to gather. Leather is more difficult. I Salvage almost everything.

Comment above is very valuable! Keep an extra tool of each in your bags.