Farming the same herb 3x plus?
This is probably the gather bonus from WvWvW kicking in. Hit B to see the current bonuses. That % after Gathering is the chance that you get an extra gather from it.
Yesterday’s patch fixed a bug with the bonuses never working for lots of people. If you just noticed this now, you were bugged too. Enjoy the extra HP, damage, healing, gathering and more!
Seconding that it’s the bugfix at work. Not once have I been able to gather a non-rich node multiple times – until yesterday. Patch hit, and I was able to farm herbs twice occasionally! Should help even out some of the absurd herb prices a little.
Also, the god-bandits have multiple threads.
I had multiple farming before. For trees and ores it will be only a bit more than one serving. Normally you’ll get 3 woods from one attempt. With the bonus you get 3 woods for the first attempt and mostly 1 additional wood for the second attempt.
But it is only a chance it will not happen anytime.