Guild Wars 2

Hi, I found something weird today. I toyed with it a bit to figure out how it is broken.

I was in Cursed Shore. I had a Ori Mining Pick ankittenhril Wood Axe equipped. I started mining an Ori node, and while the mining action was channelling, after the first ore dropped, I switched my Mithril Wood Axe to an Ori Wood Axe (by double clicking in the character “H” panel). The mining action continued, it gave me the remaining 2 ore, but instead of consuming the Ori Mining Pick, it consumed the Ori Wood Axe.

I was able to reproduce this every time, with both ore and wood nodes. Switching a tool for a different type of resource continues the action and uses up the tool switched.

It doesn’t seem exploitable. For example, you start mining an Ori Ore node with the correct Pick. You then switch out your Axe to a Copper Axe, the mining action eats up charges on the Copper Axe and gives you Ruined Ore Chunks.

TL;DR: Switching resource tools mid-gather eats up charges from the wrong tool. Quality must be the same or better, or else you get junk mats.