Guild Wars 2

First I have permanent harvesting tools —-all of them. (on several chars)

Recently I have had a DRAMATIC increase in ruined ore/wood/fiber from the tools ANYTIME anything attacks me while harvesting. When I say dramatic, I mean that it NEVER happened to me before the Wintersday update and now it happens EVERY time I do not make sure nothing can touch me while harvesting.

Was this nerfed recently?

Have you changed any of your traits, or were they changed with the patch?

Same thing. If something attacks you, you automatically switch to your weapon. Since you are holding your weapon, it uses that to determine what you get from the node. Swords and Staffs aren’t good for mining.

Traits, particularly skills activated via traits are common culprits.

This ‘bug’ has been reported for ages, and I highly doubt there’s actually been any changes to how harvesting works.

I will check my traits. I do not believe anything changed recently, however some traits were changed on the update. It may be that the damage to Aegis on guardian now is causing it. (The change from fire to aoe damage on Aegis that was recently put on with the update)

Thank you for your replies. I believe it is the shattering of my aegis.

I checked it is V in Zeal trait line. I had liked it even more with the recent update damage-wise since I am often putting aegis on many people and it would do a retaliatory aoe spike into a grouped mob on the removal of aegis on the group by a mobs aoe, but switched back to II to save my harvesting. May just switch to V in big fights now. Again, thanks for the answer.