Guild Wars 2

Currently there are 6 tiers of gathering materials and gathering tools. Each tier of tools go up in price so it seems like a waste of gold to have to use your orichalcum tools on lower level mats. It is also cumbersome to have to carry multiple tiers of tools around. I came up with a simple solution that uses only part of a charge on lower tiers of gathering nodes.

Orichalcum Tools:

• Tier 6 – 1 Charge
• Tier 5 – 5/6 Charge
• Tier 4 – 4/6 Charge
• Tier 3 – 3/6 Charge
• Tier 2 – 2/6 Charge
• Tier 1 – 1/6 Charge

Mithril Tools:

• Tier 5 – 1 Charge
• Tier 4 – 5/6 Charge
• Tier 3 – 4/6 Charge
• Tier 2 – 3/6 Charge
• Tier 1 – 2/6 Charge

Darksteel Tools:

• Tier 4 – 1 Charge
• Tier 3 – 5/6 Charge
• Tier 2 – 4/6 Charge
• Tier 1 – 3/6 Charge

Steel Tools:

• Tier 3 – 1 Charge
• Tier 2 – 5/6 Charge
• Tier 1 – 4/6 Charge

Iron Tools:

• Tier 2 – 1 Charge
• Tier 1 – 5/6 Charge

Copper Tools:

• Tier 1 – 1 Charge

These numbers would probably have to be tweaked to compensate for the tools prices but the I don’t see why the general idea would be a bad one.

I don’t even bother hitting anything but ori because I only carry ori tools on me, the only exception is for the daily when i will just hit anything to get the 20 nodes.

But then again, I don’t buy my ori tools anyway, I keep 20 stacks in the bank for my 5 80’s and when I run out I go do the DE in the cave near lion wp on southsun cove and buy a bunch more for 350 karma ea.

Good idea though, be nice if you got more uses from lower tier nodes.

Wouldn’t it be more intuitive to allow people to equip multiple tools (e.g. one Ori Axe, one Mithril axe) and then have the game auto-select which one to use? (Or at worst, show you which one you are using, so you can manually swap.)

This way, you still don’t have to waste inventory slots, but neither do you have to try to figure out how many “charges” you have remaining.

Or have a system where as long as your carrying the appropriate tools, the appropriate tool is used for the task.

Say I’m carrying 1 of each tool and I come across a mithril node, well the charge is consumed on the mithril pick. Sure it requires you to carry 1 of everything, but then again, you won’t be wasting charges.

I posted a sollution in the following thread:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Revamp-Gathering-Salvaging/first#post867266

It’s somewhat similar to this idea.