Guild Wars 2

I apologize if this is already a known issue, however, My guild and I have noticed what seems to be a disturbing trend when it comes to getting ruined gathered items. This issues appears on warriors most often. I noticed it first when i started completing daily Orichalcum ore runs throughout Tyria.
It happens when you are in combat on a warrior and trying to gather a material. 8 times out of 10 it will result in ruined ore, wood, plant fibers, etc. On my Thief or Ranger, my wife’s Elementalist, Mesmer, or Guardian; this does not happen, but on every warrior I have in my guild and others I have spoken with, this problem occurs. Is this a known issue? Is there a planned fix to either make it fair for all classes to have this happen or remove it from the warrior?

Well, there is a small chance for a node returning ruined materials when you are in combat, but some people do experience this a lot more regularly than others. I have no idea if this is a bug (seemingly with the warrior profession in your case) or just a statistical oddity – like that guy you and everybody else know who always gets exotic items despite barely using any Magic Find.

I notice this too and it’s always my warrior where I have ruined gathers.

Here is what I think is happening. When you run up to a node and begin gathering you sheath your weapon and pull out your gathering tool. If you are then hit while gathering and enter combat, you pull out your weapon but continue gathering. The game thinks you are now gathering with too poor of quality tool and returns ruined items.

I’m not sure why I don’t get this on other professions though…they will continue to gather with the tool while being attacked and never take out their weapons.

Not a Warrior, but I noticed that if I equip a kit as an Engineer in the middle of harvesting I will start to get ruined materials. Not sure, but the issues may be related somehow.

There are three of us in my guild that have noticed this specifically on warrior. I have been mining ore on my thief and getting the stuffing beat out of me and never have I received a ruined ore chunk, ruined log, etc. But when i am on my warrior, i do not even have to be in combat to receive these ruined items. If i had thought about it, i would have captured this on Bandicam and submitted it here for evidence, but a guildmate , my wife, and I were running in Malchor’s Leap yesterday and we were not in combat. Three mithril nodes in a row, he received three ruined chunks of ore. Then he hit the orichalcum node and the first mine gave him a ruined chunk. He logged out after that and re-logged. The second and third mines of that same node gave him ruined chunks. He logged again and re-logged, the next node gave him normal ori. ore. This happens too often for me to write off as a blanket “you have a chance of getting ruined gathering materials if you are in combat” This occurs on warriors…a lot. It is the only character class that I have where this happens.

Can we get a dev to chime in on this and verify if this is a known issue? It would be nice to know if this is a tracked or even a known problem.

Duhh.4102:

Not a Warrior, but I noticed that if I equip a kit as an Engineer in the middle of harvesting I will start to get ruined materials. Not sure, but the issues may be related somehow.

Same outcome but it’s because you are forcing the weapon swap. You are specifically pulling out a weapon when you use a kit which would swap out of your gathering tool as you gather. The issue we notice is an involuntary swap.