Guild Wars 2

Hiho!
Recently I’ve seen some lower tier cloth scraps pop up in the Lost Bandit Chests.
Could we see more of that in HoT?
Maybe even lower tier gathering nodes on the maps? I’d like to see a bigger variety in gathering-nodes, not just Mithril/Cypress with the additional Orichalcum/Ancient, but some of the whole tier-assemble.
As for cloth:
We’re going into the maguuma-jungle!
Spiders: Chance of dropping spider-webs that could be salvaged into gossamer-scraps.
Grubs/Moths: Chance of dropping silk scraps.
Linen: Plant fibers from the flax-plant. We’re fighting plant-monsters, so we should have some salvageable fibers to find.
Cotton: Same as above, only cotton comes from another plant in real life.
Wool: One or two critters should be a bit fuzzier.
Jute: Same as Linen and Cotton.

Make it like other games in the sense that we could harvest them from normal animals as well like the rams, deer, warthogs, etc. as well as the plant mobs. Skinning comes to mind.

I like this very much especially since mithril is always flooded on the market as well as some other ‘higher level’ mats.

As for the skinning part, some animals or animal like creatures already drop skins for us to salvage into leather and stuff. A variety in these skins however has yet to be seen.

I don’t think lower level wood / ore is necessary, since even a level 80 character can always go back to a lower level zone and harvest those to their hearts’ content no less effectively than a lower level character. Some people don’t want to do that, which is why the prices of the lower level stuff tends to be higher, but its always a viable option.

Cloth and leather, though… yah. Since a fair portion of those come from salvaging light and medium armors and characters who are 80 generally get very few of those even in lower level zones (usually you get level 80 stuff with an occasional “zone appropriate” leveled item) I would definitely like to see more ways for high level characters to reliably get those types of material.

Let’s have all different nodes on a single map! I like the idea. I might even start harvesting everything I come across again, instead of only ori and ancient.