Guild Wars 2

I was mining a rich iron node today when a character appeared on top of the node, mined it and then disappeared again.

I assume this is a mining bot/compromised account?

edit: or just a guy logged out on the node.

Or someone with a character parked there, which they only log in on to mine then swap toons again.

Latter more likely. I see it fairly commonly at the static rich nodes (and nowhere else at all)

Yeah, when I needed iron and platinum for ascended gear, I parked some toons on rich nodeds.

Yah. I had a char parked at a rich plat node for a while for a fast daily harvest.

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Or someone with a character parked there, which they only log in on to mine then swap toons again.

Good point. I saw them appear and assumed something was strange.

They do exist though, hackers who use teleport hacks to harvest mining and lumber nodes, but commonly they would appear underground, under the node itself. They do that so that enemies won’t be able to attack them. I was doing a harvest run in Fireheart Rise, and while chopping for hard wood, one guy appeared under the node and started harvesting, and then suddenly disappeared after he finished. I quickly tried to record it, but unfortunately it too late. I’m not sure if the GMs (if there are any for this game, aside from forum mods, community liaisons, and customer service representatives) monitor these harvest hackers, since I saw it happen a few months ago, meaning it’s been happening for a long time already and who knows how many other harvest hackers are out there.