Changes to harvesting?

[Thunderthyze]

<p>Apologies if this is just me missing game update notes but is it my imagination that there have been changes made to harvesting?</p><p>It seems to me that the respawn delay of nodes has been sunstantially increased and the rare rate somewhat increased. To the extent that I can go to Zek and harvest a valley completely clear of nodes before they even begin to repop. When I first arrived onsite this morning I thought that perhaps SOE had relocated harvesting locations due to the lack of nodes visible. Don't know if this extends to all tiers yet or if it is just a weird bug I was being subjected to.</p>

[Fumbles]

I have not noticed any such changes, maybe you just had an off day for rares, sometimes I get 4-5 rares in an hour, other days, I can spend hours harvesting and get none.

[UlteriorModem]

<p>Just a question.</p><p>Did you recently "step up" a tier ? As the tiers increase the rares become increasingly rare.</p>

[ZUES]

Ya I thought the same as OP.Yesterday I took an level 45 alt to Forest Ruins to start skilling up on harvesting. What I discovered was somewhat shocking. I looted like 8 rares in 20 minutes. So later I jumped on my main and went to varios KoS hotspots and sure enough, nothing. Ya it scales with level now. At high levels they are still just as rare as always.

[Skywarrior]

My read of the OP is that he is concerned about the respawn rate of nodes, not the rare harvest rate. He mentioned the rare rate "increase" as part of what he has perceived. The decrease in node spawn rate is his concern. I have not noticed a decrease in the spawn rate. I have noticed an increase in the rate of harvesting rares, although I still seem to get more of the glowy, shiny, sparkly, etc, rares than the ones I really need. Go figure.