Guild Wars 2

been happening with the mithril gathering tools as well

this is on HoD

I get the feeling that there is a chance of getting ruined ores incorporated into high level mining/logging. Not sure though, but I get the occasional ruined ancient log…and ori….so I just took it for granted that the function was planned by Anet.

a new anti-farming script perhaps?
to slow us down even more

The problem in your case, I believe, is the one related to you unequipping an orichalcum hatchet (probably for a lower quality one) – that’s another bug that’s already discovered.

However, at one point I had been randomly getting ruined ore chunks after 1-2 successful times of mining – this looks like much of the same thing, so maybe I’m wrong, idk, but today, when exploring a lower-level zone (Fireheart rise, was it?) I was mining a gold ore with a mithril mining pick. The first two swings I got a ruined ore chunk – at that point I realized that something’s wrong, so I stopped and mined again – this time it gave me the gold ore.

It only seems to happen when you are being attacked. To date Ive had it happen to me a total of 5 times and every time it happened I was being struck by a monster. I don’t know if it was intended to be that way, but the ruined ore tells you to get a higher level pick, even when using ori picks. I never use anything less than ori picks. Hope that helps