Guild Wars 2

i’d like to start collecting from nodes from all across tyria but I’m having a difficult time finding the gathering teachers/merchants to buy the necessary supplies from. I’m not really sure if gathering is a profession and how many professions I can learn from one character.

First, there is no gathering profession – anyone can gather from any node. However, you will need gathering tools in order to collect from the nodes. You can buy them from any standard merchant, as well as some karma merchants. Harvesting tools scale up as do the nodes – you will need better harvesting tools in order to harvest from nodes in higher-level zones. There are three types of gathering tools that correspond to the three main types of nodes:

Trees – Logging Axe
Mine – Mining Pick
Forage – Harvesting Sickle

The harvesting tools have a certain number of charges – once you have used them that many times, you will have to buy new ones.

The gem store occasionally sells account bound gathering tools with infinite use/charges for 1,000 gems each