Guild Wars 2

I have, for a while, been outfitting my mesmer with shiny pink mesmery weapons – The Anomaly, the Whisperblade and the Vision of the Mists. The latter two weapons require 250 each of orichalcum weapon components which in turn require 1500 orichalcum ores to produce. To acquire that much ore without draining my whole bank account, I’ve been farming orichalcum nodes on a daily basis.

My problem is that ore nodes are reset every time a new build is installed. This means, I must travel around 2 gigantic Orr zones and 1 gigantic shiverpeak zone to relocate all the nodes that have reset. This is fine. I expect occasional resets. What is not fine is having to do it once, then 6 hours later having to do it again and then the next day having to do it yet another time, which is what often happens when large patches get sent out.

I think it would be nice if you could have orichalcum locations persist for a set amount of time after each big update. 1 or 2 week would be great.

That’s not how the node spawns work at all, I’m afraid. When everyone in a zone leaves (which usually only happens when we all get kicked off for an update), the instance is terminated. When it’s recreated by a player entering it again, all the nodes are spawned at random locations (from a list of presets). The game doesn’t remember where they were last time.

itd be much faster farming gold to buy the orichalcum than it would be to collect it…

Honestly, I don’t see why they shouldn’t just change places with the daily. Mining in the same spot day after day makes no sense (logically, and from a gameplay perspective.)