Guild Wars 2

I’ve come across several instances of green gathering tools. Masterwork…, advanced harvesting…, Splitting Axe… They all seem to imply (in their tooltip) that they are better than normal. Some have more items per stack than normal, some have lower required levels… does anyone KNOW if they have a better chance at getting rare drops from harvesting or a better chance at getting more mats than “higher level” tools? For example, one of the green tools you get from your personal story can be used at level 35 instead of the normal level 40… will it produce more mats or rare drops than an orichalcum tool used on the same type of node? I see a lot of guesses – I wondered if anyone actually knows and can share. Similarly, do the higher level tools actually get more mats or rares than appropriately leveled tools?

Supposedly you get more jewels and such when using the special tools…however, I haven’t noticed much of a difference. Also, these tools will NOT all harvest the higher level nodes and you’ll end up with ruined ore chunks etc. if you try. It depends on their “use at” level.

When using these pick I have noticed getting more ore and getting more bonus mats.

I used these in the Southsun Cove on the Rich Orichalcum Node when it was available and really noticed the benefits.