Guild Wars 2

This has happened several times:

Mimosa Sapling + Steel Logging Axe = Ruined logs near [Gallowfields Waypoint].

Sometimes you get 1 Soft Wood and 3 Ruined logs from the same tree.

I am just flabbergasted at the amount of bugs.

Aside:

One of my friends, left the game permanently today, because of bugs and disconnects. You want people to do open world; they the do pre events for almost an hour, and then gets disconnected, with no way of getting back to the same map. Imagine how hard it is to actually put the SAME toon into the SAME map instance when he reconnects. This happened to him one time too many, now he left.

I REALLY hope anet employees somehow get the same treatment.

Yeah, that happens sometimes… Been a thing since the game launched. It’s supposed to happen when you take damage while logging but I’ve heard of it happening for supposedly no reason.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/arenanet-tracker/topic/248790-ruined-logs-with-orichalcum-logging-axe/

Llethander.3972:

Yeah, that happens sometimes… Been a thing since the game launched. It’s supposed to happen when you take damage while logging but I’ve heard of it happening for supposedly no reason.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/arenanet-tracker/topic/248790-ruined-logs-with-orichalcum-logging-axe/

Since launch, it’s been a variety of different things at different times and most have been fixed . Currently, it appears to happen when the character is transformed, e.g. under the effects of a tonic — this might be new since a recent patch.

@OP: could it be the same issue for you? or are your symptoms different?

They took away the damage causing you to mine ruined items it seems. Not sure on the randomly causing it to happen. I haven’t seen this occur at all anymore except via tonics, which are definitely bugged on that now with a recent thread discussing it. However, a friend has had it happen a time or 2 for no reason.

I’ve experienced this a few times now since HoT launched. I use permanent gathering tools and it happens to me when i get transformed.

For eg: that bandit camp in Brisban Wildlands where u become transformed into a bandit to do the heart quest in there, there are often nodes inside and i would gather them even after completing the heart with no problems. Now, if you try to gather them, u get 100% ruined mats, but only on wood or ore. The plants seem to be fine. Also, I think it happens if ur skills get transformed for w/ever reason, but i’m not 100% sure on this one. I seem to remember an incident in Auric Basin when my skills got swapped with those glint ones and there’s a part where u seem to be actually in open world while still having those skills. I remember seeing a node of ore and got all ruined chunks form it.

Edit: The Auric Basin incident happened during the story mission.

Ok i’ve just had it happen again, by using one of them halloween foods that transforms you, in this case a spider, and yea when i went to mine an ore, i got a ruined one. Hopefully Anet, you can fix this soon?

I don’t see it as more than an annoyance that you can’t harvest nodes while transformed — remove the transformation, harvest, and re-apply it.

However if this also affects you while you’re transformed as part of a heart quest or story line, then that should be fixed — the first we can easily control; ANet should be responsible for the second.

(Mind you: I’d prefer the old functionality; I’m just assuming or hoping there was a good reason for the change.)

I would assume tonic transformations are the problem as well because a recent change to the game made tonic transformations have 0 agony resits (used to use them for fun boss cutscenes in fractals) and you die instantly to agony on higher levels when in a tonic. could be tonics are setting the player to a low level as well.