Guild Wars 2

You all know the drill… No matter the node, 3 seconds pass and you get 3 ores/logs or some plants.

But I swear I’ve seen some people run around with a tool where they swipe at a node once, it takes 1 second, it creates some kind of rupture on the node and they just run along while the node harvests itself.

Am I seeing things and misunderstanding what’s actually going on? Or are “Quick” tools like this sold in the Trading Post?

If the latter is the case, which tools are they?

The infinite use gem store harvesting tools are all the same speed (as far as I know) except for a select few harvesting sickles which have a different animation and harvest quicker. Any of the tools that change the animation are subject to a faster harvest.

Rylen.2147:

The infinite use gem store harvesting tools are all the same speed (as far as I know) except for a select few harvesting sickles which have a different animation and harvest quicker. Any of the tools that change the animation are subject to a faster harvest.

Most plant node harvesters give the harvested item after the animation completes. With the Consortium Harvesting Tool, the item is given to you before the animation finishes, thus you’re able to move to the next node before the animation is even done and harvest times are faster.

The animation times themselves take about the same length of time regardless of the tool you’re using, but the “speed of harvest” is more tied to how quickly the tool gives you the item. You can speed up just about any node harvest really, even with standard ore mining picks you can back off of the node just before the animation completes. Basically, as soon as you see the last ore pop up in the lower right corner of your screen, you can press S to back off the node and it breaks the animation a little early. With most tools this is only a fraction of a second or so, but with the Consortium sickle (and a couple others) it’s about a second and a half.

I spend way too much time harvesting nodes. -_-