Guild Wars 2

Today I’m using Orichalcum Mining Pick mining the Orichalcum Ore but get some Ruined Ore Chunk. I asked my friend and they had the same situation.

We’re not sure if this is a bug or intended

Happens to me with Orichalcum sickles and gathering plants sometimes as well.

For me it only happened when a mob was attacking me while gathering. For example, yesterday I got 3 ruined ore chumks and a ruby orb -_- .
I hate the Orichalcum ore…only need like 1000 of them and some can farm nodes on a 2-3hr CD and mine doesn’t respawn after 5 hours… so basically I can gather Ori once per day (work and stuff) after running around like akitten to find it, coz it changes spawns.

So, Arenanet, how come some people have faster node respawn times? Hm?

Same with Mithril Pick —> Mithril Ore.
Happens more often whilst in combat. I guess it is intended.

I’ve got 14 now. Just ruined.

Bug or intended, I don’t know – but a way around it is stop mining as soon as u see 1 ruined resource and re-equip your pick/sickle. If you are in combat (like at the champion karka) hide under the wall until he gives up (and use invulnerability or shields to stay alive). I got a feeling it’s intended, but still it feels random as it only happened on my ele and not my mesmer.

If you are being attacked while trying to “Gather” whatever, you have a chance of failing the “Gathering”. There are other threads on this same subject. So kill mobs first or re-log and “Gather” your materials.

You know, I’ve been purposely trying to get ruined ore while leveling up a new character. Just to see if the same thing happens in low level zones, then I would accept it as intended. :/ But it doesn’t. I’ve mined tons of low level ore on a appropriately leveled character for the zone with one or two mobs attacking me(sometimes even interrupting me) and I haven’t got ruined ore.

But I can go to Orr and find one lonesome Ori vein with no monsters around and still fail with an Ori pick. It’s really annoying considering almost every time I find an Ori vein anymore I 70% of the time fail to get any ore from it. Really weird. I usually do re-equip my picks after I notice it. Sometimes it may fail again, other times all things go smoothly after that. Maybe I’m just unlucky or get mysteriously stuck in combat somehow (it’s happened before >.<).

A dev posted in a thread related to this a while ago asking if the OP was in combat or not, so I assume it’s intended.

Katreyn, Orr is so mobbed with enemies that you may have been in the ‘combat’ state without an enemy obviously attacking you. I imagine there’s a chance for the Orr to ruin if you’re in the combat state, i.e. speed slowed down, health not regenning, rather than if you are actively taking damage, though I can’t say for certain. And yeah, I’ve been stuck in combat before, too, usually if I get away from a mob by scaling mountains or ledges to avoid it.