Guild Wars 2

The Bone-Pickaxe is destroying the Orichalcum Ore I farm, but the description says it’s able to farm every Ore.
I hope this isn’t intended?

Marketing vs programming. They are not connected.

It looks like they just reskinnekittenhril pick.

See the thread on “all MF gear will become account bound” when the change goes live" to get an idea how it works. Marketing will announce, then you’ll find programming had no intent of it working that way. What then follows is they will retro the announcement to say "if it didn’t harvest oricalcum or before the change, it can’t be made to do so after.

Michael.9403:

Marketing vs programming. They are not connected.

It looks like they just changed the skin on a mithril pick.

See the thread on “all MF gear will become account bound” when the change goes live" to get an idea how it works. Marketing will announce, then you’ll find programming had no intent of it working that way. What then follows is they will retro the announcement to say "if it didn’t harvest oricalcum or before the change, it can’t be made to do so after.

Probably a bug. The other unlimited use pick harvests Orichalcum just fine.

What level character did you use to do the mining?

Khisanth.2948:

What level character did you use to do the mining?

80

Edit: ok so after trying it again it worked fine, seemed to be a bug.
I hope that this was a one time thing

Riyoshi.1682:

Khisanth.2948:

What level character did you use to do the mining?

80

Edit: ok so after trying it again it worked fine, seemed to be a bug.
I hope that this was a one time thing

Sounds like you just ran into the usual ‘getting attacked while gathering’ issue.

As Khisanth mentioned:
“Mining while being attacked by a mob can yield Ruined Ore Chunks when the damage taken per second is above a certain threshold.”
Though many report simply being “in combat” (no damage sustained) as being sufficient cause for ore to become ruined while mining.

From what I’ve heard, it’s not actually damage that ruins harvesting. It’s when your profession has traits or mechanics that auto-fire skills when something happens (like getting Regeneration when your health drops below 50%, or a Guardian’s periodic Aegis renewal) while you’re in combat.