Guild Wars 2

Maybe this is just me, but I’ve noticed since the last update, that the rich mining nodes, in any location, appear to be giving less materials. Maybe one or two complete cycles of the mining animation.

It used to give around three to five cycles of this animation.

For example, in Silverwastes, I mined a ‘Rich Mithril’ node, and it only gave ONE cycle of animation . . . as if it were a normal node.

Is this a bug or something updated recently?

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Maybe this is just me, but I’ve noticed since the last update, that the rich mining nodes, in any location, appear to be giving less materials. Maybe one or two complete cycles of the mining animation.

It used to give around three to five cycles of this animation.

For example, in Silverwastes, I mined a ‘Rich Mithril’ node, and it only gave ONE cycle of animation . . . as if it were a normal node.

Is this a bug or something updated recently?

How many ore did you get? There are some rich nodes where I get 3 cycles in a single cycle.

The mithril nodes in Silverwastes limit how many you can mine within a certain period. A standard rich node would give 4 hits for 10 ores.

It is new for mithril but not new as far as nodes are concerned. Passifloras in Southsun have also been like this since their introduction.

Ayrilana, I was getting maybe three pieces of mithril ore. Just one swing before it dissolved in one extreme case.

Oh! Well, that explains it, Khisanth. Didn’t know that change. Was wondering. Thanks for the explanation.

You have to count the number of times the pick gets used. Sometimes, there’s not many animations, but you still consume three uses of the pick. Rich veins should always consume 10 stacks; regular mines should consume between 3 and 6.

Khisanth.2948:

The mithril nodes in Silverwastes limit how many you can mine within a certain period. A standard rich node would give 4 hits for 10 ores.

It is new for mithril but not new as far as nodes are concerned. Passifloras in Southsun have also been like this since their introduction.

Its not new .. i had that the first time at the end of 2012 already in Frostgorge, that
suddenly mithril wasn’t respawning after an hour. Thought it was a bug at the time.
But in the last year that happened to me often when i was farming herbs around
Fort Trinity that for those characters that also harvested the mithril there, after 3-4
hours mithril wasn’t spawning any more.