Guild Wars 2

With the new guesting feature I have jumped onto different servers and helped other friends and while I was at it decided to start farming more of the Rarer metals in the game. Notably “Orichalcum” for its obvious benefits in armor, weapons and trying to achieve a legendary precursor.

With that I have gotten into the habit of taking a lvl 80 when i have time to farm Orichalcum on a regular daily basis, jumping servers to farm it again after I complete my home server. But something odd happened today, (After a few days hiatus due to real life issues.) I farmed up to 32+ Orichalcum Ore all around Orr, Malchors Leap, Sothsun and the lvl 80 shiverpeaks area. When I looked in my inventory, it stated I only had 13 ore. I even checked my game log and it stated I should have earned 32 ore.

I don’t know if this is a bug. But it happened twice to me tonight when I jumped to a different server.

Included with that, I can’t find an answer on any Anet update notes but now when I guest to another server, I find it hard to find any Orichalcum nodes. I currently use www.orrmaps.com and I was on the correct server an using a reliable and updated map. Still less than 50% of the same nodes spawned. This confused me because I would go to the area, find either an empty node, no node and on the rare chance, a node that I could actually farm. Included with that, i farmed over 20+ ore on that server and my inventory still said i had 13 ore.

My questions to either are:

First, I’m pretty sure this 13 ore problem is a bug but I can’t find anyone with the same problem.

Second, has Anet adjusted the accessible drops from a “guested” player so as to curb the influx of Orichalcum?

Third, is this considered exploiting the game. I would like to know because I am an honest player and I do not want to be banned.

Fourth, has anyone else had or noticed this problem?

This may seem obvious, but are you sure you didn’t hit “deposit collectible” towards the end of that farming?

I’m pretty sure that using guesting to change a mechanic which was meant to restrict something to “once per day” would be considered an exploit, I’m afraid.

Yes I’m sure I didn’t hit “Deposit Collectible” because I was trying to gauge roughly how much Orichalcum i could earn total on all my characters.

Yes and I understand your reasoning with the “once per day” which is why I was wondering if they fixed it so that less than 50% of the spawns actually appear on a guested server. I have found no hard evidence of this in any of the Anet updates.