Guild Wars 2

So on my main which is a human, I have added various things to my home instance, the Wintersday tree, a bandit chest, and various HoT map chests, and all is fine, they appear as they should in my home instance in DR.

But recently I created an alt (also human), and when doing map completion in DR with it, noticed that none of the stuff was there, so I just assumed they would need to be unlocked again on the alt.

But today I took my alt to the Black Citadel to get map completion done, and noticed that when getting the POIs in the Charr home instance, Hero’s Canton, all my home instance stuff was there! Exactly the same unlocks that my main has in the DR home instance. I wasn’t in a party or anyone else’s instance, I just entered the instance solo to get the POIs.

Is this some sort of bug? I don’t, and never have created any Charr characters, so would never have had a home instance with things for one of those. I’ve just checked my Norn which I haven’t played for years, and it looks like his home instance in Holbrek has my unlocks & is correct, so I guess they should appear on alts. So I’m even more confused now why my human alts stuff is in Black Citadel and not DR.

Your account unlocks like the nodes, wintersday tree and so on appear in all 5 home instances, they’re account wide.

You can only harvest them once a day per account so that may be why you didn’t see them when you took your human alt into your home instance?

Pifil.5193:

Your account unlocks like the nodes, wintersday tree and so on appear in all 5 home instances, they’re account wide.

You can only harvest them once a day per account so that may be why you didn’t see them when you took your human alt into your home instance?

When I took the alt to DR it was the first time I’d logged on that day, so hadn’t used main at all (in fact it’s rare that I actually harvest in my home instance anyway, as I normally can’t be bothered lol) and it was my first time in DR with the alt as I only went in to do the map completion with it. So deff hadn’t already harvested. Also still confused why they would then appear in BC instead :/

They should be in all your home instances, they are in all my home instances, regardless of which character I use.

Maybe it has to do with level. Maybe at or below a certain level you don’t have harvesting unlocked so the home instance nodes don’t show. What level was your alt in DR and what level in BC.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Maybe it has to do with level. Maybe at or below a certain level you don’t have harvesting unlocked so the home instance nodes don’t show. What level was your alt in DR and what level in BC.

It was lvl80 in both, as I’d used the PoF boost on it.

Pifil.5193:

They should be in all your home instances, they are in all my home instances, regardless of which character I use.

Oh, so if I take a human into any home instance in any city they will appear there too? I guess I just never noticed as I probably haven’t gone to any non human home instances on my main since I’ve had the unlocks.

You said you used the Level 80 Boost you got from purchasing PoF. Have you done any of the personal story, or did you just start mapping?

The first step of the human story has you entering your home instance, and home instance modes will not show up as part of that.

killermanjaro.5670:

Pifil.5193:

They should be in all your home instances, they are in all my home instances, regardless of which character I use.

Oh, so if I take a human into any home instance in any city they will appear there too? I guess I just never noticed as I probably haven’t gone to any non human home instances on my main since I’ve had the unlocks.

Yes, no matter what character I’m on I gather the stuff from the Asuran home instance as I find it quite compact and easy to get around there.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Maybe it has to do with level. Maybe at or below a certain level you don’t have harvesting unlocked so the home instance nodes don’t show. What level was your alt in DR and what level in BC.

I was wondering that myself so I just created a human hunter and ran her straight into the home instance in DR at level 2 and all my nodes and chests appeared for me. Oh well, might as well do a key run now.

The home instance nodes are accountbound, meaning they appear in all the home instances for all your characters. However, if you farm one of the nodes, it won’t appear in any other home instance for any other character until the daily reset. So if you hadn’t farmed any nodes in your home instance since reset that day and you still didn’t see the nodes, then something’s wrong. If you did farm the nodes, they won’t appear anywhere until the next daily reset.

When you took your alt into your home instance the first time were you doing your personal story?

The story instances are different to the ‘main’ home instance map – NPCs and objects will be added for the story (e.g. there may be enemies to fight) and others – like the gathering nodes – are removed or disabled.

Diak Atoli.2085:

You said you used the Level 80 Boost you got from purchasing PoF. Have you done any of the personal story, or did you just start mapping?

The first step of the human story has you entering your home instance, and home instance modes will not show up as part of that.

That’s it I’d say!

The only times your nodes will not appear in a home instance, is when you happen to have a story mission going on in that particular instance.

Diak Atoli.2085:

You said you used the Level 80 Boost you got from purchasing PoF. Have you done any of the personal story, or did you just start mapping?

The first step of the human story has you entering your home instance, and home instance modes will not show up as part of that.

Ah! Think you’ve got it, must be this! I didn’t do any of the story, just started to get the maps done, so when I went into the DR instance there must have been a story active there too. That explains it then!

If a Personal Story step that requires the use of your home instance is the current step (even if it isn’t your ACTIVE current step), it will suppress your “normal” home instance with one that is designed for the story step. As such, all home instance unlocks will NOT be present.

If you entered Home as part of a story instance, the nodes would have been removed.