Guild Wars 2

Am I mistaken or did Anet nerf the trees for soft wood logs some updates ago? As far as I recall one node gave 4 logs for one soft wood plank, now I only get three logs from one tree.

No. Three is the standard amount of what you gather from ore/tree nodes.

Sometimes you’ll get lucky and get more, and Rich ore nodes always let you gather more, but 3 is the standard for normal ore/tree nodes.

Default for all trees has always been 3, as far as I know.
There was a surplus of soft wood a while back, which prompted changing the refinement cost to 4 logs per plank, and was never changed back

There are boosts that give better chances for more wood, WvW or guild bonus perhaps?
I frequently but not always see an extra strike or 2 logs from one strike, but the base is 3 strikes, one log per.

The “getting lucky” part is also in part due to WvW bonuses. If you bring up the WvW panel and click the pie chart tab you’ll see a list of how your world is doing bonus wise. When the gathering bonus is up to 15% or 18% you are much more likely to get extra gathers or secret stashes etc.

Newp. Gathering is usually 3 per node.

What got nerfed was the number of logs required for a plank. 4 per, instead of 3 like the other T1-5 mats. Blatant change to the formula for market manipulation reasons. Same thing with silk scraps.

Wait, what happened to silk?

I think the OP was referring to the chance to sometimes hit the tree 3 times and get 4 logs, not the bonus hit chance.

Donari.5237:

The “getting lucky” part is also in part due to WvW bonuses. If you bring up the WvW panel and click the pie chart tab you’ll see a list of how your world is doing bonus wise. When the gathering bonus is up to 15% or 18% you are much more likely to get extra gathers or secret stashes etc.

You don’t even have to bring up the panel. Just mouse-over the WvW icon to see your server’s accrued bonuses. =)

ScribeTheMad.7614:

Wait, what happened to silk?

Oh, waaaay back before Ascended crafting, silk was 2 scraps per bolt to make. You can still find a ton of player arguments to the devs about it elsewhere on the forums.

I think soft wood logs may have had the change around the same time.

ScribeTheMad.7614:

Wait, what happened to silk?

It used to take 2 silk scraps to make 1 bolt of silk.

But before ascended armour people didn’t use much silk and the market were flooded and people sold silk directly to the merchants.

Because of that, when ascended armor were introduced the recipe for a bolt changed to take 3 scraps, and instead of the normal 50 bolts, as used for the other ascended recipes, Bolts of Damask instead requires 100 bolts of silk.

The “small” problem is that you need more Bolts of Damask than any other parts to make a set of armor, even when you make Heavy armor…

I believe Anet were surprised them self how quickly when used up the silk that had been Close to useless… :-)

Soft logs per plank was changed about a month after launch. At launch planks use to be 2 logs per, changed to 3 about two weeks after launch.

But default wood and ore gathering was always three.

I know about the change to the crafting-recipe of the soft wood logs. However, most times I got 4 soft logs out of a tree. That made me think they counteracted the recipe at some point and now, as I just get 3 logs per tree again, I thought they changed something again.

To address what someone above mentioned, were you getting them as extra harvesting hits (4 ticks instead of 3) or as an occasional double gather (1 log, 1 log, 2 logs)?

Rauderi.8706:

To address what someone above mentioned, were you getting them as extra harvesting hits (4 ticks instead of 3) or as an occasional double gather (1 log, 1 log, 2 logs)?

A double gather. To be honest I don’t recall not getting a double-gather on the third hit the past few months.

It’s your bad luck tekfan. My recent farming of wood, had the same random streaks of just 3 logs, and sometimes more. I don’t feel a nerf.

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

It’s your bad luck tekfan. My recent farming of wood, had the same random streaks of just 3 logs, and sometimes more. I don’t feel a nerf.

OK. Guess I had just some incredible good luck over the last few months regarding soft wood logs.

tekfan.3179:

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

It’s your bad luck tekfan. My recent farming of wood, had the same random streaks of just 3 logs, and sometimes more. I don’t feel a nerf.

OK. Guess I had just some incredible good luck over the last few months regarding soft wood logs.

yeah u did!

I have noticed if you farm the same map constantly over and over, the number of nodes go down. Go do something else, WvW or a Dungeon, go run some events somewhere else.

you might had that guild extra gathering bonus buff activated when you got that extra 1 log….