TLDR question: I can't find it in the patchnotes, but did anything change in how resource nodes respawn when you are standing close to it?
For people that like to read novels:
I'm crazy and some while ago I decided that I want to get my codex fully covered, which means that amongst other things I will have to collect all mythics 3 times. If you ask me the Dov-rha Sabaton Toe Cap is the absolute worst lead in the game to get (this is the S-Elsweyr Psijic portal one). It's already hidden behind some layers of RNG (there is a chance the node is not up, there is a chance the node is a runestone and there's a chance that the psijic portal doesn't have the lead), and trying to get it for the second time hasn't made the numbers any better.
Sometimes I'm so fed up with it that I just plant my character next to one that spawns near a relatively busy wayshrine, because sometimes people entering the area seems to trigger a respawn. I would go online shopping for therapy, listen to some music, watch some junk tv or even get another window of ESO open for my second account. I would keep one eye on the spawnpoint and once in a while it would spawn a runestone or a portal and I'd pick it up.
My character has been planted next to this stupid node for at least 1,5 hours and I had 0 respawns on the node. Am I really unlucky, is this a change or is this a bug?
Anyone noticed this as well? Anymore sad codex farmers? Should we set up a therapy group?