I am pretty sure Blizzard added personal mining/herbalism nodes in… Legion? I wanna say Legion. Two players run up to the same node, they both can harvest it without stopping the other player from collecting it as well.
They have had this for a long time my dude.
Oh, I guess that might be the case. I have tons of gold in WoW so I haven’t actually gathered resources much in WoW for several years myself I guess.
Most of the professions in WoW are pretty useless anyway. Sad.
The “personal nodes” in WoW don’t really seem to be completely personal in the way some people are requesting in this game. Reading about it it just says they have a short duration where other people can come up and tap it as well before it vanishes.
I think that’s the case for certain chests in WoW as well (chests in this game are already completely personal).
No they didn’t.
Nodes are still public but they can be harvested 10 times or active for 60 seconds before despawn, whichever criteria is met first.
It’s honestly been a minute since I played WoW and even longer since I felt the need to go gather anything. I just remember my wife and I playing together and both mining the same ore.
But yeah.
10 bites at the apple or active for X amount of time, still better than watching someone train a mob on you and steal your stuff after it knocks you out of your channel.
I think GW2 also does individual instanced nodes for gathering, but its been even longer since I played that than WoW.
Yes, you’re correct on this one. Guild Wars 2 nodes are completely personalised and can only be gathered once daily in most cases.
There was another thread about personal gathering nodes. AGS would definitely need to up the respawn timers if they made them individual.
PvP. The static nodes, and the loud mining sound were there to encourage PvP and fighting over materials. It is just a by product of what the game use to be before the direction changed.
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Imagine yourself a new player mining a ore when a full geared level 60 jump on him one shooting him to dust. The level 60 does not need the ore, he is leaving it untouched as a bait for First Light newbies trying to craft their first gear set. After being ganked many times the humiliated and frustrated new player would leave the game for good - I think this is a very good game to play, correct?
Ban Human Memory plz. My friend keeps getting all the nodes in the map cuz he memorized them all and their spawn!!!
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The level 60 player DOES need the ore because the devs designed the game so you always need low level mats to craft stuff.
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Don’t flag as PvP and he can’t gank you.
Do you even play this game?
Im surprised at the amount of people that missed my complete and total sarcasm.
Talk more about it… I never player wow
I think they didnt because of world PvP - Kill someone on opposite faction mining a node–take node. The personal node is designed to reduce conflict. I think they wanted max conflict here. May change in the future though as few activate PvP when farming–why would you.
I didn’t realize WoW had moved to that method. They probably got it from Guild Wars 2. It can be a solid means of dealing with resources in a game. However, it really needs to be part of a larger approach to gaming and not just an addon.
I don’t like competing with others for nodes, but there is something satisfying about coming up on nodes just in time, or even too late, to harvest.
Now randomly spawning nodes would be terrific. Admittedly because it matches my two favorite things: exploring and gathering.
You have to have a kicker people have made multiple threads saying this in A serious manner
We can’t read tone on the internet.
Learn to mock better
On the topic at hand . I have no mini map and have no issues harvesting.
If see someone I go another route or skip ahead
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