Guild Wars 2

I’m brand new to GW2, well Guild Wars in general. I usually play FFXIV but while the server’s down for the next month gonna be active here and then just play both I guess (Triple screen nerdism yay?)

Anyway, don’t have any friends to play this with so kinda been roaming the lands looking for random copper mining points. I tried out the maps that I found through google, however when I get to those locations, there aren’t any nodes there :/

I then read something about the locations being different for each person or something? Like even if someone mines a node, it will be there for the next person anyway. I have no idea if that affects anything but uhh yeah lol.

My character is Human-Darkhaven server. So I’m at Queensdale. Thanks

Mining nodes should be in your minimap. They looks like ores or tiny mountains that look different from the map itemself.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Node#Resource_nodes
^This is something that you could take a look at.

You would need a mining tool to harvest that node and it would become crafting material. (Usually from vendors)

Everyone can see the same node, but it is the same for everyone, you get your “own kind of node”. Nodes location reset after each patch or something like that.

The location of nodes (except for certain node farms and special nodes like the Orichalcum Node in Southsun Cove) vary from server to server and change around after every server reset. That’s why you can’t really rely on a map to find these nodes.

Ahhh alright. Thanks for the info I guess I really do just gotta go into every cave I see lol

U just have to glance at the minimap as you go around exploring. Note that nodes don’t appear on the world map (M button) and even on the minimap, it won’t appear unless you go close enough to it.

So keeping an eye on the minimap will be more efficient than going into every cave of course the chances are that there will be nodes in caves as well.