Guild Wars 2

Getting Onions from Scallions, Carrots from Root Vegetables, Peppercorn from any non tier 1 Herb node. It gets increasingly annoying as you advance in higher level zones with all sort of Herb Nodes that aren’t specified to drop only one material (besides dandelions).
It’s like gathering Copper Ore from Platinum nodes using your high cost gathering tool.
Aside from that we see a shortage of Vanilla, Oregano, Orange, Clover…etc. to the point where BLTC prices for those go over 1-3s (Vanilla is in fact a tier 1 material, which makes no sense).
We need some sort of normalisation on these herb nodes, in their current state it’s a very bad gamble.

“Vanilla is in fact a tier 1 material, which makes no sense” Maybe, but it is used in lvl 400 recipes too. Makes more sense then. And it also depends on how many people wanting the item. Demand and all that. Then it does not really matter what tier the material is. If a lot of people want to get hold of it, it is more likely for you to be able to sell it at a higher price, just because the demand for the item is high.

I am getting carrots from every single taproot in every zone and it is 100% carrot drop over many many collections.
This has to be a bug. Am I the only one for whom this happens?

Agreed. Never mind the laws of demand and supply, gathering tier 1 materials – even if meant to be “rare” – shouldn’t be harder than getting normal higher tier materials. If I go gathering on higher level areas, that usually means I need the materials specific to the level of that area, and so getting tier 1 carrots (with high cost gathering tools, too) is kind of annoying.

But it’s not a bug. It’s intended…