Guild Wars 2

I’m no programmer, so I can’t profess to know how much effort would have to go into this change and whether or not it’d be worth it, but it would definitely be nicer to just take 10 swings on a rich ore vein in one channeled interaction, rather than having to ‘use’ the node four times. It doesn’t help that rich veins are often guarded by a group of mobs with a Veteran in it, when they can start respawning in 15-30 seconds in some cases.

I agree on this. And on a side note, there should be an equivalent of “rich” for trees and herb patches.

Bonzoso.7014:

I’m no programmer, so I can’t profess to know how much effort would have to go into this change and whether or not it’d be worth it, but it would definitely be nicer to just take 10 swings on a rich ore vein in one channeled interaction, rather than having to ‘use’ the node four times. It doesn’t help that rich veins are often guarded by a group of mobs with a Veteran in it, when they can start respawning in 15-30 seconds in some cases.

I think you’re exaggerating a bit here. I’ve never had a problem with harvesting rich nodes before mobs start respawning, and I’m not the quickest player. I personally like the feel of having to harvest several times to get all of the ore you can, it makes sense to have to harvest for longer to really mine everything from a rich node. Not everything needs to be streamlined to an extreme, otherwise we’d end up with a very quick game where we all achieve our goals immediately.

I’ve had a little problem with the respawning of the mobs a couple of time, but i’ve had a couple peope come by at the right time to help. I would rather they change the rich nodes to only take one hit of the F key (even if it still takes as many swings) instead of having it stop and we have to hit the key again and again.

Any issue with quick respawning is going to be on a case by case basis, obviously, depending on a number of things like level discrepancy between player and mobs, how quickly the player class/build can kill, how closely the mobs are spaced together, etc. I can personally attest to a handful of places where the first mob that was killed in the group respawned just a couple seconds after the last mob was killed. In those rare cases, you could end up going through 3 full cycles of the enemies before gathering everything in the area. I guess that could be considered the risk that comes with the reward…I really disagree with that quick of a respawn rate, however, but that’s a different issue.

Anyway, removing the need for four different button presses would still only reduce the amount of time it would take to gather 10 pieces by a couple seconds at most, as the speed of the swings would stay the same and you would still only get one ore per swing. I definitely wasn’t talking about granting all 10 ore in just 3 swings.