Guild Wars 2

I’m not quite sure what to think here. It has happened a few times now where I’m getting ruined materials while gathering with Orichalcum gathering equips. First happened a while ago, I gathered 3 ruined ore from a mithril node using an Orichalcum Mining Pick. Then today I gathered on an Orichalcum node with an Orichalcum Mining Pick and got 1 orichalcum ore followed by 2 ruined ore. About a minute later I gather from a an Orrian Sapling and get 1 ancient wood log followed by 2 ruined logs.

My only theory is that I think in all cases I had been on the same map for a while and was starting to get bad drops from mobs. I don’t really have enough data on this bug to build much more of a theory than that.

Has anyone else had this problem of getting ruined materials using orichalcum equipment.

Just wanted to update that this happened to me again, with a Cypress tree. 1st hit Elder Wood Log, next 2 hits, ruined logs. Still using Orichalcum tools. Though it happened before DR this time, so that theory is mostly shot.

I’ve had this happen to me before as well. The last time it happened I was getting attacked by something, which can also factor into it, I think. I did have a time when I was using an ori pick and I got ruined things and it completely messed up my node as well, but that was a while ago.

I don’t know if DR has any affect on gathering materials but they did confirm that being in combat mode gives you a chance to get ruined ore/log. However, I have never seen or heard anyone with such high % of ruined logs/ore.

Father Busho.2796:

I don’t know if DR has any affect on gathering materials but they did confirm that being in combat mode gives you a chance to get ruined ore/log. However, I have never seen or heard anyone with such high % of ruined logs/ore.

It must be the combat mode thing. I’ll often ignore the enemies attacking me because I can take a few hits as well as the fact that I’ll often have my minions distract the enemy while I gather. That’s pretty dumb IMO, but I guess I’ll just have to clear the area before I start gathering in the future.

Being in combat can and will return ruined ore, especially ori and ancient logs. Get out of combat before trying to mine these materials.

At least in my experience just ‘being in combat’ doesn’t seem to cause the ruined ore. Generally, zipping around Orr with mobs beating on me as I harvest, the only time I get greys is if: the mob uses some type of CC on me /and/ I also have an effect on that causes the CC to be instantly negated (aka auto-stability or auto-shake it off from warrior traits). When that happens, my harvesting tool is replaced by my weapon, but still doing the harvesting animations. I guess greatswords make lousy picks/axes?