Guild Wars 2

So I was exploring in Fields of Ruin and I went to the quarry right outside of Ebonhawke to try to do the daily Ascalon miner thing. Much to my dismay, there were no mining nodes in the quarry. The nearest one was way out by where the ogre wars take place (the final event, not the pre-events).

I realize that gathering nodes are randomly generated for the most part, but wouldn’t it be cool if you can walk into a woodland-like area that has slightly more lumber nodes, or an open field or farmland with slightly more harvesting nodes or, existence forbid, a quarry that actually had a couple of mining nodes?

Maybe I just got unlucky and was placed in a bad instance that was ravaged by the game’s brutal RNG, but I think it would be great to be able to go to a quarry and actually always find a couple of mining nodes.

Anyone else get their hopes dashed like this? I mean, Tyria is already full of varying terrain types. Why not nodes to match the terrain?

for immersion purposes it would make sense, seeing a random metal node in a forest, or a wood node in the middle of nowhere is kind of wierd yea lol

You would get in trouble with the local miner’s union if you used any of the nodes in the quarry.

I do like this idea. I’d like to see some higher level nodes in areas like this though. Why not add an Orichalcum node to the Ebonhawke quarry? Even making it account bound like rich nodes would be another way to draw players back to low level areas. Come for the node, stay for an event or two.

I don’t think the nodes are entirely random. There are specific areas where they are set to appear in, and I’ve noticed in the past that there are places with lots of trees where you would expect them, and places with lots of ore nodes, again where you might expect to find an abundance of ore.

It’s not perfect, but I think they did take location into consideration in a lot of cases.

Andred.1087:

I don’t think the nodes are entirely random.

Yeah .. metal is mostly near to mountains, and you normally also don’t find any trees inside of caves.

Cherokeewill.7504:

You would get in trouble with the local miner’s union if you used any of the nodes in the quarry.

I do like this idea. I’d like to see some higher level nodes in areas like this though. Why not add an Orichalcum node to the Ebonhawke quarry? Even making it account bound like rich nodes would be another way to draw players back to low level areas. Come for the node, stay for an event or two.

I really like this idea. +1

generally specific areas do have concentrations of resources (mining nodes underground/in mountains, herb/veggie patches on farms, wood nodes in heavily wooded areas).
Nodes have specific placements, and are not randomly generated

Only in an MMO – walk into a forest and can’t find a tree to harvest.

My favorite was always FFXI and having a bone chip being an uncommon drop off of a skeleton. Obviously, I obliterated the first 20 of them into a fine powder until I was able to restrain myself enough to recover one.

rhelik.4876:

Only in an MMO – walk into a forest and can’t find a tree to harvest.

My favorite was always FFXI and having a bone chip being an uncommon drop off of a skeleton. Obviously, I obliterated the first 20 of them into a fine powder until I was able to restrain myself enough to recover one.

Zhevra hooves. Nuff said. >_<