Guild Wars 2

I’m returning after a two month break from GW2 and I’m wondering what’s going on with orrichalcum nodes? I farmed them all (using orrmaps.com) two days ago and still have not seen any re-spawn. I just finished walking all over Cursed Shore and Southsun Cove with no ori nodes anywhere! Did they change the respawn rate while I was away? Could this be a bug?
/confused

Based on my own personal experience with farming orichalcum, it doesn’t reset on the same timer that other ore does. Orichalcum resets at the same time as the daily reset, whereas mithril ore resets after several hours after you’ve mined it, and rich mithril ore resets approximately 24hrs after you’ve mined it.

This being said, I’ve noticed that on Southsun Cove the orichalcum nodes move every single day, as opposed to the other maps having fixed locations until a new build comes out (although the nodes in Frostgorge Sound recently experienced a daily movement as well for a time, so this may be what the future holds for all zones where orichalcum resides).

However, in using Orrmaps I’ve come to find that a lot of the maps made simply are not reliable, in some cases because a new build came out and the maker of the map did not reset their map and has not updated it as of yet. I would recommend trying several of the Orrmaps on a particular server if the first one fails you.

Ronin.4501:

However, in using Orrmaps I’ve come to find that a lot of the maps made simply are not reliable, in some cases because a new build came out and the maker of the map did not reset their map and has not updated it as of yet. I would recommend trying several of the Orrmaps on a particular server if the first one fails you.

Yep, this is what I do as well. Some of the maps are either old and not updated or just wrong.

Also, there are the rare times that a single map or two resets itself, so the nodes wind up changing without a new build.

Ronin.4501:

Based on my own personal experience with farming orichalcum, it doesn’t reset on the same timer that other ore does. Orichalcum resets at the same time as the daily reset, whereas mithril ore resets after several hours after you’ve mined it, and rich mithril ore resets approximately 24hrs after you’ve mined it.

Pretty sure they don’t respawn on reset. Each node still has its own timer. There was an ori near an ancient sapling that I kept forgetting to mine while standing next to it. I finally got to mining it a few hours after chopping the tree. When I went back to chop the tree after reset the ori was still mined out. This was in frostgorge.

i have knot-aced after farming the nodes on different charters is they reset the area at where they spawn in 24 hours and the places are moved so not every charater has the same spawn. its to help with bots. it might of been a secret nurf in a patch.

Khisanth.2948:

Pretty sure they don’t respawn on reset. Each node still has its own timer. There was an ori near an ancient sapling that I kept forgetting to mine while standing next to it. I finally got to mining it a few hours after chopping the tree. When I went back to chop the tree after reset the ori was still mined out. This was in frostgorge.

I’ve actually been keeping notes on what time I farm in each zone for the past two months. I can verify that ori nodes have been resetting with the daily reset as on a few occasions I’ve farmed the nodes 1-2hrs prior to reset and then again immediately after reset, although I haven’t done this recently as the rich mithril nodes were still on a 24hr timer and I prefer to get all my farming runs done at one time. However, it is possible that ANet is still tinkering with the ori respawns. As I mentioned in my previous post the nodes move daily in Southsun Cove, and in the second most recent build were doing the same in Frostgorge, although with the most recent build the nodes in Frostgorge resumed their respawns in the same location.

Kenage Achalarus.4276:

i have knot-aced after farming the nodes on different charters is they reset the area at where they spawn in 24 hours and the places are moved so not every charater has the same spawn. its to help with bots. it might of been a secret nurf in a patch.

Although this is still true for rich mithril ore, and was once true for the ori ore as well, in the past month the ori nodes have been respawning at the daily reset. However, as I mentioned in my previous post, I have noticed ANet tinkering with both respawn timers and how often the nodes relocate, so it’s always possible that what holds true for today will not hold true for tomorrow.

Sera.6539:

Also, there are the rare times that a single map or two resets itself, so the nodes wind up changing without a new build.

This is true as well. In addition to continuing to move daily in Southsun Cove (the one exception seeming to be the ori node that spawns where the rich ori node used to spawn), I have also seen all crafting nodes reset location in Malechor’s Leap w/o a new build, although this seems to occur only when a node spawns in an inaccessible location after a new build.