Guild Wars 2

Hi all i have a question about gem store gathering tools, i already bought watchwork mining pick and i am getting watchwork sprockets as it say in tooltip.
Now i would like to know if there is a wood and herb gathering tool that offer the same kind of additional stuff when gathering as the one above?

Not yet, but my wallet is ready.

Do you think there will be soon?

I certainly hope they either add new tools that gather additional materials, or add that function to existing tools. They did add the frostbitten gathering tools that weren’t unlimited, but those were only available during wintersday. I expect they’re going to implement it, but haven’t figured out a way to do it that won’t wreck the economy yet.

Ah well i guess i will just buy normal axe for now, thanks for info.

No problem, enjoy your gathering. Hopefully we’ll be enjoying some extra drops from gathering in the near future.

If I remember correctly, there was a very unhally complaint when the watchwork pickaxe came out, because it was marginal ‘pay to win’. So I don’t think they’ll be making that move again.

Arikyali.5804:

If I remember correctly, there was a very unhally complaint when the watchwork pickaxe came out, because it was marginal ‘pay to win’. So I don’t think they’ll be making that move again.

I agree the extra stuff on the pick was a mistake(I have two of them) but the pay to win thing was stupid. It would have been just as easy to exchange the gems used to buy the pick for gold. That probably would have been easier since the pick still requires you to run around mining stuff.

Whisperer.1584:

Do you think there will be soon?

I don’t expect it because when the watchwork pick was first introduced there was a lot of outcry of “Pay 2 Win” for a “cash shop” item that produced an additional tradeable item which now is a 3s per item but at the time was a few coppers, and people were still upset.

So unless they want to relive that, no, I would expect it to be handled like the snow tools we got during winterday. An account bound, limited use tool that would give us a bonus item and that’ll get dropped on us in mass for doing certain activities.

The only other perma-tool that offers an “advantage” would be the Consortium Harvesting Sickle as it allows for a shorter animation when harvesting (not much, but it does SEEM to be much faster).

Note that there have been plenty of complaints about the Watchwork Pick being an “unfair advantage” over the other perma-tools (that cost the same), so I would be VERY surprised if Anet stirred that pot of discontent by releasing another such tool that offers “extra” items per use. Frankly, I’m surprised every time they re-offer it on the Gem Store.

The fused sickle seems to be using the same animation as the consortium sickle. The reason it is shorter is probably because it doesn’t have to play the standing up animation. You can achieve a similar thing by interrupting the animation with movement. I do that with the golem.