Guild Wars 2

How come in the last couple of days I’m getting ruined materials even when I have Orichalcum gathering tools equipped. Has this bee happening to anyone else?

If you’re harvesting while being attacked you have a % chance of failing your gathering and getting a ruined log, ore etc even if you have the correct tool equipped to harvest.

That never, ever, happened to me before.
When i mine stuff in orr i always have like 5 zombies on my kitten

Never had that happen to me, either. Mob on me or not.

Will have to take a screen shot and bug report it, just maybe thought at first they nerfed gathering. Thanks for letting me know it isn’t happening to everyone

I would bet that it’s a bug with the interface, that you don’t really have Orichalcum tools equipped and it’s just showing that you do. Unequip your tools, log out, and buy new tools when you log back in.

It has a % chance of happening when being directly damaged (as a opposed to just having aggro). Happens to me about 50% of the time under these conditions. Makes that Lost SHores rich Orich a bit more challenging to get!

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I would bet that it’s a bug with the interface, that you don’t really have Orichalcum tools equipped and it’s just showing that you do. Unequip your tools, log out, and buy new tools when you log back in.

I’ve seen this happen to a roommate. He got ruined plant fiber on Omnoms while under attack, then a few moments later harvested a different node successfully with the same tools. If it were an interface bug, he would not have been able to harvest T6 mats with the same tools. Not to say there might not be more than one issue, but an interface bug is not the only factor.

Yeah the ruined ones will be mixed in with good mats and think it has happened to me when under attack. I’ll see something like two ancient wood on my screen with a ruined one in the middle. Usually clear mobs before gathering so never paid much attention when I gather when under attack.

You’re probably getting stuck in combat like happens to me all the time. I’ve gotten so I have to always mouseover a nearby waypoint after combat to make sure the end of combat actually registered or else I wind up ruining materials. Between the “sticky” combat toggle and respawns sometimes it takes upwards of three or four minutes to get out of combat, especially in obnoxiously overpacked, long aggro zones like Orr.

What profession are you? I’ve noticed that certain skills will almost always trigger a ruined node.

For example, if I use Arcane Shield on my Elementalist and it triggers the damage from the third hit explosion, I will get a ruined node. On my Warrior, if I use the Last Stand trait (breaks stun + stability now), it will always give me a ruined node if something attempts to daze/stun/etc. me. This didn’t happen when it didn’t break stun.

I’ve gotten ruined materials about 20 times since launch while being attacked/stuck in combat :P It’s rare, but it does happen.

Yeah I usually clear mobs before gathering, but have just started running through Orr with tons of mobs on me so never even noticed in the almost 1,000 hrs of play that this could happen…lol

If you switch any of your tools to a lower quality one that doesn’t meet the requirement of the node in the process of gathering, you have a 100% chance of failing.

For example, if you’re mining orichalcum and equip a mithril sickle, it’ll fail. As a bonus however, if you run out of orichalcum picks, you can begin mining with any pick, equip an orichalcum sickle or axe and mine the orichalcum using the sickle or axe instead.