HQ-increase gatherer buffs acting up mid-node

Date & Time: 2/2/2018, 12:05 to 12:10am EST, and again at 12:35am
Frequency: Once
World name: Mateus
Character name: Issindria Randes
Retainer name: N/A
NPC name: N/A
Monster name: N/A
Class/Level: Miner and Botanist, both 70
Party or solo: Solo
In-game time: Shortly after 12am for the node I hit at 12:10am EST
Area and coordinates: Dravanian Forelands (X:28.3,Y:25.4), Azys Lla (X:24,Y:5.8), Eastern Thanalan (X:17.7,Y:20.9)
Housing: N/A

Steps:
This is a mining/botany bug I ran into that, two hours later, is not affecting me anymore. I still wanted to report it though, just in case.

When hitting a mining or botany node and trying to get HQ items, I start with Unearth III/Leaf Turn III, and then use Bountiful Yield/Harvest II to get as many items as I can. This worked as normal through the evening of 2/1. On 2/2, at 12:05am EST with Dark Chestnut Log nodes in the Dravanian Forelands, it suddenly started acting up. Unearth II/Leaf Turn III would increase the HQ chance to 100% as expected for pre-SB nodes with my ilvl, but the Bountiful Yield/Harvest II immediately after would suddenly drop the HQ chance back down to 15/30%, which had never happened before, and even though the Unearth/Leaf Turn buff still showed as active in my status bar. Gathering after that went mostly normal (albeit with a depressing number of normal quality hits), though I noticed sometimes the node-hitting sound effect would not play.

I tested the same error with the Adamantite Ore node in Azys Lla, and then tried again with the Dark Chestnut Log one at 12:35am after logging out and back into the game, in case it was a local client error. Same thing happened. I also tested on Alumen in Eastern Thanalan, to verify whether it was HW nodes only, and the same error happened here.

I did not get a chance to test this on SB nodes. I asked a couple of other high level miners and botanists in the Novice Network if they were seeing this. Nobody else looked to be having this issue but me.

When I went back and tried this entire process at 2am EST, again on the Dark Chestnut Logs, the HQ chance remained at 100% after the Bountiful Yield/Harvest II usage.

Connection Specs
- Type of internet connection/provider: Verizon FIOS, 213 Mbps down, 808 Mbps up
- Modem maker/model number: Verizon Fios-G1100

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