Guild Wars 2

I recently came back to gw2 and started node farming again and I see people appear outta no where on nodes gather it and disappear, is this a thing now? Is some new strategy i don’t know about since I have been out of the game for so long. parking 1 character on 1 node don’t really make sense. Only thing I can think of is teleport hack or something. Can some one tell me whats going on?

So I heard there is a new timer but it doesn’t make any freaking sense. Listen to me, last night I mined a orichalcum node and 2 mins later I mined a ancient wood node, if the new timer is 8 hours shouldn’t they both spawn after 8 hours? Instead this morning only the orichalcum node spawned. Unless the spawn timer for each node is different, can some one confirm this? Plus I mined my node last night around 9~10 pm thats 16 hours ago, can some one please explain to me how the spawn rate works?

Edited: Not all the orichalcum node spawned, not all the ancient wood spawned, its all random now. Can other people confirm this as well?

Can you post your gear? Without and precisions I’m @ 35% crit and I kinda want to call BS on how high you can hit with your burst. Also how are you tanky if you didn’t put any points into toughness?