As the title says, there appears to be a bug when you herb that means it’s necessary to gather each herb twice to get all of it. It’s been happening regularly in the last week (since 8.2.5). The initial gather loots 1 herb. Then you gather the exact same node a second time and get 3 or 4 of the herb. So ultimately you’re getting the same amount of herbs, but you need to gather twice to do so.
It doesn’t happen every single gather, but I’ve had it happen about 80% of the time (from my unscientific testing).
edit: I think if you herb and fly away without gathering a second time the remaining herbs actually get mailed to you, since I’ve been seeing herbs turn up in my mail from “Postmaster”.
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I haven’t played for a few days, but this happened to me as well today, though I noticed it on my miner first. I tapped a Rich Storm Silver node & only got 1 ore which confounded me. But I noticed the node was still intact & tapped it again & got 7 more. Same thing happened on the very next Monelite node I tapped, 1 ore then 3. After that all nodes worked normally.
Later, I was on my Herbalist & it occurred 3 times in about 30-40 herb nodes I tapped. No noticeable pattern that I could discern.
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I haven’t done much mining in the last week so can’t comment on that. I did notice after I posted my initial comment that the herbing “got better” and I gathered about four in a row with no problem before I logged out.
edit: It may be related to looting rather than gathering. I just had a similar thing happen with the Bag of Anchors created by the alchemy transmute. When I opened the bag it had one stack of 10 Anchor Weed and one Anchor Drop drink. I looted them and the loot window disappeared, but the bag of anchors remained in my backpack. Clicking it again showed a second Anchor drop. Looting that made the bag of anchors disappear.
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I too have encountered this since the 8.2.5 patch. Thank goodness for the Postmaster.
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It is also happening with Garrison Work Orders (I know, I’m the only person left on earth who still collects them). First time you hit it it only gives you 2 of the created item, then you have to go back for the rest.
As was suggested in another thread, it seems like the first hit you get the base amount, then you have to hit again to get the amount you get through bonuses like extra stars on the skill.
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This is also happening to all of my herbalists in BFA. It’s only the first herb once I sign on into a new character, and if I don’t go back and pick the rest, it does send it to me in the mail. It’s just an annoying bug to have.
Same here with all my miners and herbalists… but I’m not finding the postmaster reliably sending me the rest… just the occasional time.
Seems to happen for the first time gathering each type of node after logging in that character. Once I gather, for instance, a riverbud, I can gather it normally without double-gathering.
Like the game needs to learn that kind of node and cache it or something.
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I’ve been getting this with mining, but also just with looting groups of mobs.
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This bug has also been happening to me with mining and herbalism, and I can confirm that it does seem to go away after the first time it happens with each unique type of node.
Can confirm, it also happens to me from time to time when looting more than one instance of anything. Especially annoying while gathering.
Yep, been happening to me for several days, now almost all the time.
Still having this happen with gathering nodes and garrison work orders. =/
I have also been having this happen with looting dead groups of enemies, loot one item and then loot again for all the rest.
as well as herbing too
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Yeah this is a constant issue for me with corpse and node looting. I tried turning off all addons and it still happened.
Has this been addressed anywhere yet? I’ve been searching to see if there is a fix but so far coming up empty.
This is still happening to me. Happens with herbing, mining, if a mob drops more than one of the same trash item, and with looting an old dungeon/raid boss if they drop two of the same item.
Happens to me on mining nodes. Only became an issue since patch 8.2.5.
Still happening, can we get a blue response for this please