First of this is not about the nodes changing after a patch or maintenance.
All of last week the nodes changed in Southsun Cove on a daily bases. To the point that it even changed between logging characters. This was before the maintenance from yesterday. Now today both Malchor’s Leap and Frostgorge Sound have changed. This is on Far Shiverpeaks by the way.
Is this intended? If it is it will make the life of gatherers/crafters even harder. If it is not than I can see only 2 possible reasons. 1 of them I really don’t like.
1: It is a remnant from the time Anet wanted to have them chnge daily.
2: The world in GW2 isn’t actually persistent. I dislike this one as it has implications for a lot of things. If the world isn’t actually persistent than the emptier a world gets the more these changes would occur as there wouldn’t be anyone in the zones to keep them alive.