Guild Wars 2

Because atm, there is just too many iron nodes. This is reflected in the extremely low price per ore on the TP, while the price of copper is nearly double it. I would rather not farm low level areas for copper when I can easily level cooking or huntsman just by gathering materials easily while leveling.

Not really. Iron is used across two tiers of crafting (to make Iron and Steel Ingots). Copper is used to across one tier, even though in two different ways (Copper and Bronze Ingots).

I’d assume the high price of Copper is more related to a lot of people trying relevant crafts at the low levels, then dropping out before they get to the tiers that require Iron. Once you’ve progressed past the Copper stage there’s virtually no reason to ever go back since people level past the gear quite quickly. Steel stage is far more relevant, though not as relevant as Darksteel.

Actually, if anything I’d like to see a few more Gold and Platinum nodes instead of Iron.

There is definitely a bit too much iron out there in the world.

Can’t have enough iron in your diet :P but seriously, if you want more copper then farm the nodes, if you want less iron then don’t mine it. Yes there is a fair few nodes but it’s not really a balance issue as you might not even be levelling a craft that uses it or perhaps you are already past that material in crafting level and you have no use for it anymore. It is as simple as mine or don’t mine.

I agree there should be more copper in zones outside of 1-15 zones. Iron and platinum are so plentiful that reworking a few zones would make sense.

There may be too many iron deposits, but it isn’t as though copper is ridiculously difficult to find (the starter zones -only- have copper and its all extremely easily gotten to), and iron basically has to be used twice-over by professions using steel.

Honestly, insofar as mining nodes go, I feel like should there be a change, Iron in the 30-40 zones need to have more of them converted into Gold. THAT is a scarce ore.

That’s funny, because when I’m out mining lv 70+ zones, all I see is Mithril nodes and very few Orichalcums…