Guild Wars 2

This one’s simple and excellent.

If you are harvesting trees within range of an OAKHEART, PINESOUL etc it will aggro and attack. You are, after all, trying to take it’s childrens!

a tree is not the child of an oak heart, they protect the forest from harm

This will cause PvE casuals to complain that harvesting has now become hard and they shouldn’t have to fight vets to obtain green wood logs.

i would prefer harvesting lower grade materials harder. usually have a tons of those. besides a vet oakheart is not that tough, you just gotta learn its attacks and your build

UserError.7150:

i would prefer harvesting lower grade materials harder. usually have a tons of those. besides a vet oakheart is not that tough, you just gotta learn its attacks and your build

But think of the PvE casuals

The last thing they want is to have to attack more mobs if they don’t want to!

I am a PvE casual. my first toon was my mes that i soloed in PvE in 2.5 weeks, 120hrs, and 49% map completion

You’re too hardcore for the real casuals that don’t want to fight mobs to do their harvesting daily and will also be forced to buy green logs off the Trading-post.

ummm… oaks and pinesouls are not around wood harvesting places that much, infact they are usually only around in the places that are harder to farm or you need to be a higher lvl to get to, so it really wouldn’t affect it that much, but would add in extra dynamics to it.

After all, didnt you see what the forest of Fangorn do to the orcs that chopped down their trees? it would add in a bit of reality, besides its not like they cant move spawn points to make less/more of them around. it may actually be good, they can add more wood in to harvest, just add it in to the areas w/ oaks or pinesouls.

besides, why cant you just run past them like all the enemies around the ore nodes? isn’t that harder since they aggro you before you even start to harvest?

Let me think…. some oaks near jungle wurm, some near behemoth….. i think there are a few more. But generally the idea itself its nice. Although not much resources there if any. So rage about casual players is nonsense. It would be fun though if there was some kind of link between oaks, shepards of the forest (it’s not lotr though xD), and then actual woods :P Quite an interesting idea.