Guild Wars 2

Is this just an antibotter deterrent or can I actually get this?

Did you try to see if that whole area can be climbed from another side, and then just drop down from the top? In my experience, most rich veins are placed either in areas with a whole bunch or mobs, or in areas that you had to figure how to get to. If no other solution works, maybe it’s just a node placed in a wrong spot by the developers, but still, with the rich tag on it, I expect the location was on purpose and there is a clever solution on getting it.

Hm, I’d report that as a bug, looks like the node is spawning slightly off.

I actually JUST managed to get the node after I posted this, by using swiftness and cornerjumping from around where I took that picture. I landed on top of the node and was able to mine it.

Drevin.6534:

Did you try to see if that whole area can be climbed from another side, and then just drop down from the top? In my experience, most rich veins are placed either in areas with a whole bunch or mobs, or in areas that you had to figure how to get to. If no other solution works, maybe it’s just a node placed in a wrong spot by the developers, but still, with the rich tag on it, I expect the location was on purpose and there is a clever solution on getting it.

Nah, there’s no path up from what I could find.

Ah ha! Maybe it is intended for some creative hopping to be done to get it. A gathering jump puzzle if you will.

It’s still a ridiculously difficult jump as the point where I am in that picture is terrible footing and tends to make you slide back down. I’m -still- not sure this node placement was intended.

I’m almost positive that node spawn is not intended. They don’t hang off terrain the way that the one in the image is doing. Even rich nodes, which are often protected by veteran mobs or tricky landscape features, are spawned flush against the terrain.