Gatherer Bonuses not working
I believe the bonus is 10% better chance at rare loot – presumably this means getting orbs and crystals to drop while mining/logging, or UNid dyes to drop while gathering plants.
It is unclear to me if you get 10% chance extra or the chance is increased by 10% – for example if the “regular” chance of mining a rare mat is 10%, you banner will give you a 10% increase from this “regular” chance (i.e. your chance is now 11% overall instead of 10%).
Nevertheless I am almost certain the gathering booster is not working. It says “33% chance at extra resources while gathering” (NOT extra chance, just chance). This can’t mean 33% that whenever you hit a node you get 2 of the resource instead of one, this NEVER happened to me while mining for the full hour with the booster on, and it should proc on average on every single node (which has 3 hits), if this was the case.
If it means 1/3 chance of having the node produce an extra hit, my result was also much lower than 33% (maybe around 10% but probably lower). I could have been unlucky, or the tooltip on the booster is wrong. What it means is 33% increased chance of mining extra, so like the above example, if the regular chance of getting a 4th hit on a node is 10%, then your chance is 13.3% with the booster on.
Anyway, as you can see the banners and booster do very little, but this may or may not be intended.
(edited by Tigerlily.3765)
I have noticed this too, I’ve been gathering a lot the last week (as in a hundred nodes or more) and even when our WvW bonus is at 15% I have gotten 0 bonus uses on any node. I think this was bugged when Edge of the Mists came out.
The WvW bonus is currently non-functional outside of WvW at least for some people. It has been broken since the Edge of the Mist release. Hover over the rook icon on the top of you screen to see if it is actually active for you.
OP is not talking about WvW bonus.
He said he and his friends had the guild buff up and it seemed to have no effect (he said WvW bonus should just be gravy, like he should notice it even more).
In my post I added that I thought the gathering booster was also not working correctly.
We have also noticed this too.
I’m in a small family guild of 3 people so it takes us a while to earn enough influence for them in the 1st place!