Guild Wars 2

I was of the assumption that Master Harvesting Tools (usually acquired through the story) should function on all tiers of harvesting nodes, but currently they seem to only work up to a certain tier – possibly the tier equivalent to the level at which you receive them in the story.

They either need their description updated so we don’t harvest junk from high tier nodes or they should be fixed to work on all tiers like Black Lion harvesting tools.

The Master tools are tiered; this appears to be by design. (However, I find them useless, since there is no way to tell if they are going to yield ruined materials or not until it’s too late.) I agree that the UI should make it easier to prevent this (and not just for the master tools — how many times has someone gotten ruined Ore from an Ori mine or wasted Ori tools on Mithril mines?)