What's up with resource nodes disappearing?

[Player.2475]

I'm struggling to understand how or why this is happening, but it happens consistently throughout so many maps. The only common pattern I found is that these are resources I harvested in the last 24 hours on the same map. 

 

I'll gather most of the resources in an area, and switch instances of the map, or come back a few hours later. Oh look! There's plenty of resources in this new map. 
Then I gather one and... all the other ones disappear. Sometimes it's just that they'll disappear right in front of me when I approach them.
Obviously you can go on another character to avoid the issue entirely, so I don't understand why the game trolls you like this on that one character in particular.

 

Desync? Daily cap on how many resources you can harvest in a given region?

 

Edited September 4, 2022 by Player.2475

[Cuks.8241]

Yeah noticed it also. Always thought there is some kind of daily map cap. 

[Randulf.7614]

There is a cap for clusters. I forget what it is. Might be on the wiki

edit - link posted below

Edited September 4, 2022 by Randulf.7614

[Mungo Zen.9364]

Where do you notice this?

 Some LWS episodes have resources nodes (like Winterberries) which are capped daily to an account or sometimes to a character.

You may find that Rich nodes, which are usually once per day, could give the same experience of appearing when you swap maps but disappearing when you move close to them.  But I’ve never seen it on the regular nodes  

Famously there are some Candy Corn nodes which you may see briefly any time of year in Core zones that usually disappear if you approach them. 

[Randulf.7614]

This has some information on caps, but for the clusters

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Node_farm

Edited September 4, 2022 by Randulf.7614

[Silent.6137]

3 hours ago, Player.2475 said:

I'm struggling to understand how or why this is happening, but it happens consistently throughout so many maps. The only common pattern I found is that these are resources I harvested in the last 24 hours on the same map. 

 

 

 

3 hours ago, Mungo Zen.9364 said:

Where do you notice this?

 Some LWS episodes have resources nodes (like Winterberries) which are capped daily to an account or sometimes to a character.

You may find that Rich nodes, which are usually once per day, could give the same experience of appearing when you swap maps but disappearing when you move close to them.  But I’ve never seen it on the regular nodes  

Famously there are some Candy Corn nodes which you may see briefly any time of year in Core zones that usually disappear if you approach them. 

All Rich Nodes, magic orbs and map currencies are subjected to a Soft Reset. Which means it require 22 to 24 hours between farming for the individual character on the account to be able to farm them again. That is, each character will have their own personal Soft Reset timer.

Once the cap for the daily amount is reached, all nodes will disappear. A good example that you'll often see is if you farm the Chunks of Pure Jade in Dragon's End. You can farm 60 per day per account. Soon as you have 60, you'll see all the nearby nodes disappear.

As for map currencies, most maps have a cap on amount you can farm. However, winterberries do not appear to have a limit. Or the limit is high enough that no one has bothered to test it out. You can use as many alts as you have to farm the berries.

Edited September 4, 2022 by Silent.6137

[Cronospere.8143]

There is indeed a daily cap on certain materials.

Also map instances have some of the gathering nodes on different spots.