Guild Wars 2

So over the last week or so ive started farming a lot of resources to sell on the trader so i can get my T3 culture armor set (120GOLD!!!!!!). I found a pretty efficient rotation through Malchors Leap and Cursed Shore where i could just farm Mythril/Elderwood logs and Orichalcum/Orrian Sapplings. Just doing those nodes and selling what i harvested plus what i found on the mobs during the rotation i was making like 3-5 gold average a day.

However, I noticed yesterday that the nodes i was usually farming werent spawning for extended periods of time and just now i was running around farming mythril and suddenly every node on my map that i hadnt farmed disappeared before i could get to them. I know they were there because i walked passed them and noted where they were, and then even saw one node on my map vanish immediately after i farmed the node before it.

My question is, is there some sort of cap or scaling that they implement on the resource nodes to control the rate at which u can farm, or am i just experiencing a bug or something?

This also happened to me, so I’m curious as well. Wasn’t sure if this was another diminishing returns thing…why we would be discouraged to farm materials is beyond me.

I’m an avid farmer and have noticed that every 30-45 mins or so i get a big run on porous bones and then it goes back to loot. Since the Nov 5 update i have also noticed that running my MF gear and my Balthazar gear made no difference in loot quality. Coupled with that the normal woods,ores,gathers are spawning fine but the top tier is nowhere to be found.

I suspect they have had a behind the scenes change to maybe test out some things or smooth out some inconsistencies but i think we will need more time to be able to prove it or see what it is they have done. I’m currently of the thinking that the blues and greens drop rate has been reduced slightly but the yellows have remained the same but need more farm time to prove reliably.

I also noticed yesterday that a lot of the DE’s have had their timings changed, my old route round penitent path is no longer valid and the missions behave slightly differently in themselves.

I may be totally wrong but im confident something has been changed in these areas.

I’ll check this as I have a regular farming route through that area. With the inflated mat prices I can farm up about 1.5g in mats in about 45 min.

How long continuously are you farming?

you could also sell those 250 stacks of large bones from hacking through walls of risen while you’re there. or make CKS’s for ~20s each for some decent profit. it’s what i’ve been doing lately when i get bored of wvw or need a break from dungeon running