Bloodstone Ruby from Bloodstone Crystals

[Snowpea.5469]

Not long ago Bloodstone Ruby would drop fairly often from Bloodstone Crystals in Bloodstone feed... now bloody nothing! Is it bugged or something? I got one from an event, but mining the nodes doesn't seem to work anymore.

[Linken.6345]

its a pretty low drop rate and are you sure you havent hit daily cap?Im unsure if thats still the case.

Mining Bloodstone Crystal Nodes

Mining a Bloodstone node yields a Blood Ruby approximately 20-30% of the time. The amount of Bloodstone nodes that can be mined per day is limited to around 28-33 nodes per account, per day.Sourcehttp://guildwarshub.com/blood-ruby-acquisition-guide/https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Blood_Ruby

 There are 14 blood rubies you can obtain every day with certainty:    Escort Alari Doubleblade on her quest for vengeance for 1 blood ruby    Defeat the spirit of Justiciar Hablion for 3 blood ruby    Defeat the jade constructs before they drain the bloodstone! for 2 blood ruby, immediately followed by    Disperse the Unbound Guardian for 4 blood ruby    Bloodstone Fen Dailies for 4 blood ruby total (1 for each daily)You can get some extras rubies gathering Bloodstone Crystals, but the drop rate is less than 1 ruby per node.You can gather 3 blood rubies from a home instance Bloodstone Crystal Node.

[Blocki.4931]

Just bad luck I assume. The droprate was never that great

[phs.6089]

It's quicker to get them from pvp tracks then mine

[Ashantara.8731]

@Snowpea.5469 said:Not long ago Bloodstone Ruby would drop fairly often from Bloodstone Crystals in Bloodstone feed... now bloody nothing! Is it bugged or something? I got one from an event, but mining the nodes doesn't seem to work anymore.

You are correct. The drop rate has been reduced significantly, and it is not the daily cap that causes it. If you go farm them with several characters (one char per day, not several in one day), you would still be put on a low drop rate for weeks if you attempt this more than once a week. It is insane, takes forever now to get 200 for the back item.

@phs.6089 said:It's quicker to get them from pvp tracks then mine

Indeed, these days it is. PvP or WvW reward track.

[Illconceived Was Na.9781]

@Ashantara.8731 said:The drop rate has been reduced significantly,What's your evidence for this? I farm the same number of nodes each week and get the same amount of mats, on average.

[Ashantara.8731]

@Illconceived Was Na.9781 said:

@Ashantara.8731 said:The drop rate has been reduced significantly,What's your evidence for this? I farm the same number of nodes each week and get the same amount of mats, on average.

My "evidence" is my experience. Also, did you read the rest of my statement?

@Ashantara.8731 said:The drop rate has been reduced significantly, and it is not the daily cap that causes it. If you go farm them with several characters (one char per day, not several in one day), you would still be put on a low drop rate for weeks if you attempt this more than once a week. It is insane, takes forever now to get 200 for the back item.

Different char every day of the week. If you do it once per week, I can see how your drop rate feels significantly higher than what I described.

The fact stands that this was not the case before the nerf. You used to be able to farm Blood Rubies just fine.

[Inculpatus cedo.9234]

At 14 guaranteed per day, it would take 2 weeks to acquire 200 Blood Rubies. Maybe not as quickly as some would desire, but not 'forever', either.

[Illconceived Was Na.9781]

@Ashantara.8731 said:

@Illconceived Was Na.9781 said:

@Ashantara.8731 said:The drop rate has been reduced significantly,What's your evidence for this? I farm the same number of nodes each week and get the same amount of mats, on average.

My "evidence" is my experience.

Your personal experience isn't evidence of a nerf. It just means you feel it's taking longer. And it might be taking you longer, it might be taking other people longer. But that's not evidence of a reduced drop rate. Statistically, everyone goes through cold streaks at some point, and with a low drop rate in the first place, it's noticeable.

When do you think this nerf took place? What drops did you record during what period before? And after? Without data, it's just anecdotal. That's a good place to start, but it's no substitute for actual evidence.

Also, did you read the rest of my statement?You mean:you would still be put on a low drop rate for weeks if you attempt this more than once a weekThere's no diminishing returns mechanic in this game that affects people this way. There's a daily cap, there's a cap on areas of the map. There isn't any "reduced drop rate for weeks."

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Perhaps you're experiencing the second reset timer, that's always been in place on this map, as well as others. We all know that nodes reset at the same time every day. What's less understood is that there's a second cooldown, that requires waiting 18-23 hours (reports vary). You can see this with T6 nodes on all maps, and unique-to-map nodes in LS3 and LS4 instances.

This second cool down is per-instance. If there's a new version of the map, you're limited by the daily cap only; you don't have to wait 18-23 hours after gathering.

When the maps first came out, we had new instances spawning regularly, so it was uncommon to be affected by this secondary cooldown. These days, even the well-farmed Bitterfrost Frontier only spawns one, maybe two instances between game patches. This definitely affects how easy it is to gather bloodstone rubies, unless you're able to time your farming perfectly.