Guild Wars 2

Lately I’ve been parking my alts in rich iron veins. After the implementation of the megaserver, I’ve been consistently getting 8 mining opportunities, with a guaranteed double bonus every third time. However, and here is where the weirdness begins, if I mine with an unlimited pick (I only have the molten one), I get 10 mining opportunities, with (admittedly not a large sample pool) very few double nodes. I’ve been reading the patch notes and I haven’t read anything regarding the gathering changes (aside the megaserver issue with guesting and mining the same rich node in 3 worlds).

I guess my question is: Is this difference between picks intended? Have you experienced this as well in other nodes? And lastly, as I can’t test it with other unlimited gathering tools, does this also happen with the other unlimited tools?

Rich veins can normally be gathered 10 times. And i haven’t noticed any change with that. Platin, Gold an Silver only give 1 ore per pick, Iron gives 1 or 2 .. normally i would say i get 15 out of a rich iron vein.

Sometimes you can pick 11 or 12 times due to WvW Bonus, that is in the end the same as when you can pick a normal vein 4-6 times.

Unlimited or normal pick also don’t make any difference, i harvest with 12 characters, some use normal mithril picks, others have all different unlimited tools.

I have experienced this as well. Only getting 8 hits out of a rich ore since patch. I do not own unlimited tools so I cant give any input on that part.

Regular Mithril Picks on Rich Iron Vein gave me 10 hits. No different from before. Tested on multiple nodes and characters.

I have noticed a different issue. It may be a normal occurrence and I just never payed attention before.

I was waiting for the Megadestroyer event to begin and saw a Rich Platinum Vein on my minimap. I went over and harvested it and mentioned to my party members where it was located. They walked over to me and stated that it was just a regular Mithril Vein for them.

Can a mining node be different for different people?

With regard to the OP’s concern, I’m getting the same amount of hits for my unlimited tools as I always did. I’ll continue to monitor though.