Guild Wars 2

It is just me, or does it seem that drop rates and node spawns are a little inconsistent. I spent several hours today wondering around the Brisban Wildlands only occasionally finding Nodes, and having more equipment drops from beasties than anything else. This had made crafting progression pretty laborious as I can’t seem to get the correct materials from certain beasties.

Is this normal?

those armor/weapons you get can be salvaged into the materials you need. Usually low level areas for example will drop items that salvage into copper or basic leather. 15+ areas will salvage into iron, 40+ platinum, and so on. That is where you will get a lot of extra materials. Salvaging along with node hunting brings in a pretty good amount of materials, at least for me.

I do salvage from the equipment. I don’t need copper and iron, I need the materials drop from mobs, such a claws and the like. But it just seems few and far in between.

If this is the norm, I will stop whining. It just seems to me that it is very inconsistent.