So, I bound my second utility skill (normally
to left alt, because it’s pretty simple for me to slap that as an engineer to whip out my grenade kit, right? Welp – gathering in Orr, running around, alt+tab while mining to talk to friends with an Orichalcum pickaxe – and a triplet of ‘Ruined Ore’ on the right side of my screen. At first I thought this was some lazy effort on Anet’s part to combat botting – if GW2 isn’t the active program, mining produces ruined results! [Just to note – I was not in combat, I know better than that!]
But later on it repeated. But I never actually alt+tabbed out of the game. I’m not entirely sure if it’s just because I’m swapping kits while mining, or if it’s because I’m swapping to grenade kit – or even if it’s because I have the ‘Refined Kits’ trait, which makes a grenade barrage when I swap to the grenade kit. But it’s ruining my mining efforts sometimes! Yes, I’m aware of it now, but it’s an annoying issue that could easily be remedied!