Apologies if this has been covered, but nothing came up in a search or a scan of the last few pages.
I have the pleasure of having purchased the gem-store gathering tools when they went on sale a few months ago. I transfer them back and forth between my characters, and pretty much never harvest with anything but them. I have noticed to my dismay that rarely, randomly (to my knowledge) and disappointingly, they sometimes fail to act as Orichalcum level tools, and will result in a Ruined Ore Chunk, log, or plant fibers.
Server: Almost exclusively on Blackgate (It has happened at least once when guesting to another server, probably Fort Aspenwood.)
Map/location: It does not seem to happen in any one map. I have failed in Brisban Wildlands, Cursed Shore, Dredgehaunt Cliffs, Iron Marches, and probably several others.
Character info: Once again, it happens on multiple characters. I see it happen MOST often on my level 80 sylvari Necromancer, but I believe that is because I use him mostly for material farming. I’ve also seen failures on my 80 Norn Guardian, and my Human Elementalist (50-54ish)
How to reproduce issue: For the life of me, I can’t. It just happens out of the blue. Sometimes I will get both success AND failure from the same exact node. It seems to happen independent of any variable I’ve tried to use to reproduce it (I’ve tried going to different servers, or harvesting the same node on different days, using different or the same characters, etc) It happens on Iron, and on Orichalcum, and everything in between. (I don’t know that I’ve seen Tier 1 resources fail. Maybe they can’t, or maybe it’s because I rarely farm them, as I’m primarily doing this for the Ascended gear.) It has occurred for me on Ore, Wood, and Plants.
I’m attaching the most useful screenshot I have of the bug in action, as it seems I’m limited in how many I can post at once. It shows both failure and success on the same node type, and you can see the lightning strike to show the tool used.
