Guild Wars 2

Since recent bans for snowflakes crafting I’m worried about how gw2 banning system works, somehow I feel that mechanics from the game itself get you to think on easy ways to make money w/o knowing it could result into a perma ban, let me explain, let’s say I spent 2/3 months farming every dungeon after token patch, as you know this tokens can be traded for golds or exotics, well I decide not to go for exotics and go for A LOT OF golds and I manage to have around 5k-8k tokens that I can trade for a gold piece worth 30 tokens and we would be talking around 166-266 gold pieces that I could easily salvage into ectos, resulting in more than 250 ectos, will this get me banned?, will this make much difference if I salvage 5/6 golds per day and not all my stack at once?

I think Anet right now offers many ways to make a great income that any honest blindly player could think of, by the way Anet… remember that not all your players population are hardcore gamers who came from WoW or any other MMO, some of them are just casual players

It is disconcerting to see what happened only because a lot of us would never intentionally use an exploit and can’t help but wonder – would we have seen it as an exploit?

However, what you are talking about is using proper in game mechanics to acquire rare items and salvage them into ecto – this is a normal way to play the game and is quite common.

Now if you found a way to buy the rare items but avoid having your tokens deducted or maybe just having a fraction of them deducted, that would be an exploit similar to what happened (like reaching into the soda machine when they are refilling it, or buying a drink for a .10 coin instead of a 1.00 coin) but you earned those tokens and should be able to extract in game value from them appropriately – either in the form of items or the ecto from the items.

Tokens can’t be mass exploited. You’re talking 2 months for 250 ectos, which is an extremely low rate, especially compared to the exploit difference.

The exploit was because you got the jewel back when you salvaged the snowflake jewelry. 17s cost for the 14s jewel + .9 ecto was the salvage recipe, which was ridiculous, immediate profits.

U take time to get ur dungeon tokens, so I doubt u will get banned.
The snowflake jewelery incident was that there were potential to double, triple, or 10x ur profits to ectos in like 30 min or less (depending on when u get ur snowflakes.)
Even more profits if u have ur own snowflakes and got like a ton of bl kits b4 halloween event (at that time and b4 gems were dirt cheap so buying bl kits or dropping from bl chests were easy).

Ok thx for your replies I’m somehow still worried that someday I find an easy way to make money and get banned, Anet really needs to clarify what an exploit is…. any casual player who reads forums or reddit could be worried about this issue :/, let’s say some newbie stumbles with something that its worth it to exchange or pay for to just find out later it was an update mistake and this person gets banned for “exploiting it” when he thought it was the honest way…….

Yup, I agree about the clarity. ANet refuses to draw clear and distinct lines on what’s allowed and what’s not but will gladly permaban on the first offense of crossing those blurred lines.

In before nameless moderator locks for not (insert Cartman voice) “respecting my authoritah”

If anet feels you are making too much money without purchasing gems to change to gold than yes it’s an exploit. How much is too much? Depends how the devs/GM’s/CSR’s feel that day.

Risingashes.8694:

Whine whine whine.

You guys are a joke. Pretending like it’s impossible to tell between an exploit and what isn’t.

You all knew, stop playing dumb. And stop with these threads pretending you’re in a constant fear that doing the most mundane things will get you banned, implying that the Snowflake thing wasn’t as blatantly obviously exploitative as it was.

This is pretty much my thoughts on this entire thread.

If something you are doing involves something relatively new and is giving you GIGANTIC amounts of profit, it most likely is exploiting the system.

ANet usually says, in the forums, whether or not something is allowed, then proceeds to suspend/act accordingly. Additionally, you won’t get banned if you do it on a small scale, but if you hardcore it, you will get punished. (Think back to the Grawl weapons for precursors, most people got slapped on the hand, but the people who did it super intensely got banned.)

Hi everyone,

You shouldn’t be “worried since recent bans for Snowflake jewelry exploit”

Exploiting is a breach of the Guild Wars 2 User Agreement. Following these rules ensures a fair and safe gaming environment for everyone.

To report exploits, please send an email at exploits@arena.net

Customer Support actions or decisions cannot be debated on the forums according to our forum Code of Conduct, the topic is therefore locked.

Thanks for your understanding