Guild Wars 2

Today I went out on one of my very infrequent gathering runs to restock on some items and I encountered something odd. Using mitril mining picks on platinum ore nodes in Sparkfly Fen I am getting “Chunks of Ruined Ore”. This usually happens when you use lower grade mining materials than the node being mined, however today this is happening still while using higher grade items than the node being mined and I’m wondering what’s up? It happened 5 or 6 times out of my first 100 attempts, so initially I didn’t really take note. But just now it actually happened twice in a row on 2 nodes, one giving me 1 platinum ore and 2 ruined chunks, while the other gave me only 3 ruined chunks.

What gives? Were the critical failure numbers adjusted and I’m just extremely unlucky? Or is this a bug that was introduced with a recent patch? I don’t ever remember this happening before…

It’s a bug regarding traits triggering Stability when attacked by an enemy using Crowd Control effects (e.g. Push, Stub, etc). Nodes return ruined ore when the trait is activated.

I’m not sure if this issue is already known by the devs.

If you have stability on while gathering, and get hit by a CC attack, all your next gathers are fails.

The warrior trait ‘Last Stand’ is the worst culprit for this. This bug has existed from day 1.

Interesting… thank you. I hardly ever go out and actually do gathering, I usually just salvage all my loot for crafting. This must happen to be the first time I’ve ever done it with such a trait equipped.