Guild Wars 2

S0 i was using an orichalcum axe on a cypress spawn, and it gave me 1 cypress and 2 ruined logs. This has happened before to me on omnom berry spawns. is there an inate chance for even orichalcum tools to fail?

I have never gotten a ruined mat when using the orich tools, you may have just encountered a bug.

I sometimes get ruined parts when I am using orichalcum tools. I’ve noticed that this mostly happens if I try moving away before it’s entirely finished, or if I get attacked while harvesting it. I haven’t found the exact definite reason yet though.

Yeah, I enjoy watching people ignore mobs when they go to nodes… and wonder how many ruined scraps they’re getting.

That’s the only time I’ve ever gotten ruined mats.

I have never seen what is being described here.

I frequently ignore enemies attacking me because I am just going to smack the node three times pop swiftness and move to the next node…

Never gotten a ruined material before. Ever.

Now if you talk about those garbage black lion tools…..they suck because you can’t tell what they are able to gather from. I’ve lost a few mats trying those things out. Now I just delete them.

I have had it happen just recently for the first time. It was on an orichalcum ore node and I got attacked while harvesting. Prior to this past week I had never seen it happen.

I’ve had this happen recently as well. I didn’t realize it at the time but getting aggro may have affected it, especially on me cutting down trees, never had this be an issue at lower level spots though.

I also used to use the green “mining picks” from karma vendors on Ori and it used to work 100%, now it doesn’t seem to be the case. :/

I also had this happen a lot during Halloween when I would change to lower level picks for candy corn. And sometimes I would change my picks in the middle of cutting down a tree or something and it’d result me in failing. >.<

Wanted to make this post more relevant as I still wait for a fix.

I play rune of the pack which grants 5% chance when hit to buff up yourself and allies.
The thing is when it triggers during a harvest, following mats will be ruined. I experience this quite often.

Repro steps :
- Pull some mobs to the node
- Press your action button (default F)
- Rune triggers
- Enjoy your harvest

I used to play with rune of the citadel, same bug. Dunno which bonus is involved though (#4 or #6).

Addtionally I believe that the Guardian trait : Zeal 5 (Zealot’s Speed) will also ruin your mats the same way.

Yep it happens to me a lot, even when I’m not being attacked.

Got 2 ruined logs from an Ancient Sapling today using a orichalcum axe, happened a few times in the past 2 weeks or so.
I just thought it was a bug

timecookie.8570:

Wanted to make this post more relevant as I still wait for a fix.

I play rune of the pack which grants 5% chance when hit to buff up yourself and allies.
The thing is when it triggers during a harvest, following mats will be ruined. I experience this quite often.

Repro steps :
- Pull some mobs to the node
- Press your action button (default F)
- Rune triggers
- Enjoy your harvest

I used to play with rune of the citadel, same bug. Dunno which bonus is involved though (#4 or #6).

Addtionally I believe that the Guardian trait : Zeal 5 (Zealot’s Speed) will also ruin your mats the same way.

I get ruined on my mesmer sometimes and I dun use runes there(just some random crests and stuff). So, getting hit by certain skills(or possibly taking a critical hit) definitely has smth to do with it. It’s annoying, but whether it’s a bug or intended…we’d need smb from ANet to tell us…

I’ve only had this happen while "in combat " so if you’re suffering from a condition or were fighting recently don’t harvest anything. engineers should take care to always tear down their turrets as well i’ve had my engineer get stuck in combat when he was nowhere near an enemy because of this

TWMagimay.9057:

timecookie.8570:

Wanted to make this post more relevant as I still wait for a fix.

I play rune of the pack which grants 5% chance when hit to buff up yourself and allies.
The thing is when it triggers during a harvest, following mats will be ruined. I experience this quite often.

Repro steps :
- Pull some mobs to the node
- Press your action button (default F)
- Rune triggers
- Enjoy your harvest

I used to play with rune of the citadel, same bug. Dunno which bonus is involved though (#4 or #6).

Addtionally I believe that the Guardian trait : Zeal 5 (Zealot’s Speed) will also ruin your mats the same way.

I get ruined on my mesmer sometimes and I dun use runes there(just some random crests and stuff). So, getting hit by certain skills(or possibly taking a critical hit) definitely has smth to do with it. It’s annoying, but whether it’s a bug or intended…we’d need smb from ANet to tell us…

Maybe the 10 in Dueling which stealthes you.