Guild Wars 2

Tried with steel harvesting sickle but it gave me Ruined Plant Fiber. Tried 4 times, all failed. Was able to harvest it with a steel previously. Besides, it grows in a level 30ish zone, and none of the vendor in that zone sells darksteel tool. I even tried it with a Master Harvesting Sickle and it still gives me Ruined Fiber. Someone has tweaked with the codes and created a new bug.

The Master tools are actually a set of different tools with varying levels but there is no way to tell what their levels are(besides using them) but Darksteel is required for Portobello Mushroom so that is working as intended. As for vendors, which zone are you in? I see 3 level 30ish zones, Gendarran Fields, Lornar’s Pass and Fields of Ruin. All those zones have at least one vendor selling Darksteel Harvesting Sickles although some of them require heart completion.

You can always buy every possible tool from merchants in the cities. If it’s required in some cases then it’s a design flow but still not a bug.

I was able to harvest Orichalcum with Master Mining Pick a few weeks ago on a level 57. They nerfed it and I am not if it is possible now. But how can a Master Mining Pick and a Master Sickle be so much different in level. Not to mention that it is pointless to place so many nodes in the level 31-33 zone (South of Field of Ruins) where you can’t harvest by any tool you can buy in that zone. Darksteel tools are usually only required at the level 45+ zone.
Besides I have cleared this zone 6 times and I never needed a darksteel sickle to harvest anything in this zone.
I think they must have screwed up something when they nerfed the Master tools. They are supposed to be equal to the Black Lion tools and they are Masterwork class, while Orichalcum tools are only Fine.

The Masterwork tools from story rewards have always been unreliable. Just check the timestamps on the wiki …

The masterwork tools that you can buy with karma on the other hand actually work as advertised.