Guild Wars 2

I just finished the auric weapon set last night and discovered that I only need one more item for the luminate’s back piece.The auric lodestone is the only part of the achievement I need to complete it. I was surprised that I didn’t have it yet because of all the time I’ve spent on this map.

I normally mine every time I see an ore node, and I do have the Exalted gathering mastery. I have saved Tarir over 75 times, and did map completion on 6 characters. I’ve finished all the map specific achievements except a few adventures gold awards.

I’ve spent so much time on this map and mined so much, just not sure why it’s not dropped yet. After I discovered that I needed it I went and mined every single node I could find on two different instances and still nothing.

So how rare of a drop is this?

do you have the Exalted Gathering mastery completed?

Kythan Myr.4719:,

and I do have the Exalted gathering mastery

He said he did, man.

Fremtid.3528:

Kythan Myr.4719:,

and I do have the Exalted gathering mastery

He said he did, man.

this just goes to show: never attempt to read the forum when you’ve just woke up. you will fail at reading.

edit to add: what are you gathering with? I know this sounds daft, but sometimes the unlimited tools seem to have a low drop rate on collection items. had the same issue with a collection item from coral for the legend collection. was getting hardly any with an unlimited tool (as in none at all), so switched to ori tools and got the items quite quickly.

I remember doing this, heard people in my guild get it within just a couple nodes but more often then not it’ll take 2 or 3 dozen tries. I was one of the unlucky ones and I believe it took me around 130 nodes to get it. It’s just pure rng, for the good and bad of it.

Jwake.7013:

It’s just pure rng, for the good and bad of it.

Indeed. I think it took me something like 50-100 nodes, so at least way longer than I anticipated.

CptAurellian.9537:

Jwake.7013:

It’s just pure rng, for the good and bad of it.

Indeed. I think it took me something like 50-100 nodes, so at least way longer than I anticipated.

This. Pure rng which can get nasty.

Took me 3 trips to the map and probably around 40-50 nodes if I remember correctly. Unlike the specialised collections which are almost 100% drop rates, this one is closer to 5-10% I think.

Well, I’ve done the map (mined the ore nodes) 5 times since my last post. I’ve not been using the unlimited gathering tool either. I’ll think I’ll try and find a surveying banner and use a booster if I have one.

An initial thought I had is maybe the code is conflicting with something else that drops from mining, like precursor crafting. I have several of those active like the Incinerator one, and I know that causes ores to drop from nodes.