Guild Wars 2

Why can I not mine Orichialcum with these MASTERWORK mining picks.

Normal = Copper to Mythril
Uncommon = Orichalcum
Masterwork = RUINED ORE!!!!

This is stupid, we pay for the keys to open the chest. You give us these tools which should be great but they are broken.

Please fix it.

I’m not sure if you are talking about Black Lion Mining Picks since you mention buying keys for chest or the item Masters Mining Pick.

The Masters Mining Pick varies in strength with the level of the quest that rewards it.
I haven’t had any issues mining all nodes with the Black lion mining pick.

If you get ruined ore from a mithril node while using a mithril mining pickmake sure you are not in combat as that will also give you ruined ore sometimes.

Unfortunately the problem with Masterwork tools is they are level locked to the level your character was when they were obtained.

i.e If you aquire some at level 2 you will only be able to mine copper nodes with them. If you obtained them @ level 70 you will most likely be limited to Mithril.

The really annoying part is that none of this is indicated on the tooltip of the tools. If you have kept them all along the way you will either have to test them each to know thier limits or scrap them so you know any new ones will be of use.

This is one of the reasons i preferred to go back and do the lower zones to complete once at 80 that way all of my tools were locked high enough to mine Ori.

The masterwork (green) tools are level specific with respect to the level of the storymode quest you get them (i think they go +1 or 2 tiers above the area you got them in). They are far less effective than they appear from reading description.

If you get ruined ore from a mithril node while using a mithril mining pickmake sure you are not in combat as that will also give you ruined ore sometimes.

you only have a CHANCE of getting ruined ore if you are HIT right when you are mining. Most of the time it won’t happen – pretty much everytime i mine I’m in combat and this has only happened to me once or twice.

Quick Mouse.7635:

The masterwork (green) tools are level specific with respect to the level of the storymode quest you get them (i think they go +1 or 2 tiers above the area you got them in). They are far less effective than they appear from reading description.

If you get ruined ore from a mithril node while using a mithril mining pickmake sure you are not in combat as that will also give you ruined ore sometimes.

you only have a CHANCE of getting ruined ore if you are HIT right when you are mining. Most of the time it won’t happen – pretty much everytime i mine I’m in combat and this has only happened to me once or twice.

I’m fairly certain its not based on the level of story mode quest as i’m level 80 and still havnt completed the story (level 60ish quests atm). The Masterwork tools i’m getting are harvesting Ori just fine.

I used a masterwork axe on ancient sapling and got it ruined. I was level 80 when I got it from a story mission around lv 30-40. It is the equivalent to Steel Axe for me.

Thanks for thew heads up—won’t be wanting one of those picks until I make lvl 80.

Clark Skinner.4902:

I used a masterwork axe on ancient sapling and got it ruined. I was level 80 when I got it from a story mission around lv 30-40. It is the equivalent to Steel Axe for me.

Hmm i’m out of ideas then. Perhaps i got the ori workable ones from a higher level zone completion reward (which again makes me scratch my head as they are normally lvl 72-78 exotic armors). All other situations i can think of would have the player scaled down in level when they got it.

Chest drops? /shrug

I think we can all agree though the lack of information on the tooltip makes them nearly pointless.

Best bet is to just use the ori tools. I even had blacklion tools return ruined, never had an ori return a ruined.

Bump.. We need these items fixed, or at least state which nodes they can be used on

I have 3 80’s. They all ONLY carry ori tools (and occasionally black lion if I’ve got them from chests).

Today and on past occasions, my ele has ONLY ori tools in bag and equipped. Today on past occasions with the same tools, I’ve gotten ruined ore chunks and ruined wood using ori tools on T6 nodes.

I have never got ruined crap on my warrior or ranger using T6 tools on T6 nodes.

Not sure why this happens with my ele but it’s pretty lame.

The economy in this game is lame, limited access to nodes is lame, doing gathering runs in zones full of kittens dragging mobs all over the place and griefing aggro transfers is lame, and then to top it off, NOT getting your mats and getting poop instead is extra lame.

please can we get a resolution for this?

I can confirm this bug happens when you’re getting attacked while gathering. What happens is the gathering tools your character is holding turns into weapons while doing the gathering animation. Thus, whatever you’re gathering turns into ruined junk. Please fix this as it’s really annoying when doing gathering runs and you just want to ignore the mobs.

How about killing the mob before you mine?

Anyway.. to me its logical if you get ruined ore, if you mine while being attacked. Your character can not concentrate and messes up the mining. → ruined ore.

I do not think this is intentionally this way, hence it is most likely a bug.
This has also happened to me, not a very big deal, but still should be looked at.

Happens maybe once every 40ish gatherings or so.

only ever happened to me once

nemo.1572:

How about killing the mob before you mine?

I did, and then my flesh golem ran off, aggroed a mob, and 2/3rds of my Ori was junk. Either let us set our pets aggressions levels, which I’d love as my flesh golem will stand there and watch me take a pounding, or run off while to start a fight while I’m trying to travel, or ditch this bug.

I’ve noticed this happens most often when Might comes up. Which can pop up during several different circumstances depending on the character.

Found another similar bug – was mining Orichalcum ore with Oric picks and whilst I was mining I changed my logging axe from Black Lion to mithril for the Sapling nearby, and I got 2 ruined ore chunks.

It’s worth noting that it didn’t use my any oric picks for the ruined ore chunks – I’m not sure if it used to hatchets (for some stupid reason) or not though.

Wtb my orichalcum back.