Guild Wars 2

What? Have you ever seen a MMO support team? I have. It’s a job and the people working it rarely play the MMO they are supporting in any depth. They have been given a metric for the bans and that’s that. “Did he salvage more than 100 rares? Yes. Did he craft at least one snowflake item? Yes, ban, next.”

Once the crosshairs are on you, you are getting banned no matter circumstances. Maybe you could appeal successfully if you had unusual circumstances but don’t expect anyone to look into them prior to the ban.

Exploit at your own risk.

Fair enough Zid, it’s not the support teams fault, I suppose I would be finding fault with the person who decided that 100+ salvages was evidence of a players knowingly using an exploit, and for the person who decided this was an exploit in the first palce.

I think my previous post outlines my problems with it pretty well. I am not saying anyone who knowingly exploits should be unbanned, I’m suggesting its very plausible people got banned and then were accused of ‘knowing’ it was an exploit when they had no idea, I myself would have done it an never thought twice about it being an exploit if I knew about it.

I do understand how that might be hard to understand if you have a different perspective, but to me salvaging hundreds of items a day was just normal gameplay.

@van You would have done it because the incentive was there. You would feel that it was the better method – otherwise you would either have to go back to the tedious work of salvaging and/or buying at high price. THIS WAS THE BETTER ALTERNATIVE.

ANet introduced this alternative and people used it. IMO, it was their fault that this did not go through QA thoroughly enough.

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@van You would have done it because the incentive was there. You would feel that it was the better method – otherwise you would either have to go back to the tedious work of salvaging and/or buying at high price. THIS WAS THE BETTER ALTERNATIVE.

ANet introduced this alternative and people used it. IMO, it was their fault that this did not go through QA thoroughly enough.

Right I totally agree, I would have done it without question because it was a better way to do what I was already doing as a legal form of gameplay. It worked in the same way, only with different inner workings. It had high material return rates 4/5 crafts returned the original mats, However it also cost about 3x more to craft than normal rare light armor. So the profit margins were better than what I was doing by about 25%. Enough to be really profitable, but not an amount where I would suspect I was exploiting.

I salvage in lots of 1000-2000 at a time. I can salvage 125 items in about 3-4 minutes and I purposefully do not look at the results until I’m finished so if I had decided to try it, a single “action” would have put me well into ban territory without any premeditation or intent or realization of what happened.