Guild Wars 2

When I was just playing in Dredgehaunt Cliffs I wanted to gather some iron, gold and some Seasoned Wood Logs. But in some nodes there were 1-2 materials and one piece of junk. For example an iron node gave me two iron and one ruined ore chunk. And I was using a steel mining pick which should be more than enough.

The “ruined ore” would probably have been a snowflake of a tier which was to high to harvest with your tools.

Looks like the bonus items were assigned to the wrong level of node.