Guild Wars 2

So uh…there’s a certain event on my server that’s been bugged and it’s very profitable. Lots of people are at it all day. Is ‘exploiting’ this bannable? It’s just an event that spawns mobs that are very easy to AoE sweep.

You should submit a bug report in-game. There’s a checkbox to report an exploitable issue.

Technically speaking ANY kind of exploit is bannable… Even the ones people use to skip parts of dungeons and so on (the ones most think are ‘harmless’).

But I still have to see people that are banned for exploiting in PvE… Its more common in PvP since it do affect other people game experience.

I wonder if this is what the mass ban was?
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Perma-Banned-for-exploit-merged/first

A dev wrote, a vague response not admitting what the exploit was:

We closed a serious but not-widespread exploit, and banned those accounts that performed it and those that received or stored the wealth they generated.

While performing the bans, we made a mistake and additionally banned some unrelated accounts. We identified the mistake and unbanned those accounts.

For those still banned, if you wish to appeal, you may submit a support ticket and the team will examine your case.

It is against the rules to advertise an exploit. Thius is the main reason they never tell us. Even if an exploit is closed, they don’t to prevent people to get creative.

As for the OP’s question. It depends a bit on the situation. There is a bug in brisban wildlands where an event is running all the time in the area of a heart. This makes doing the heart a lot easier and I do that everytime when im exploring there. This bug has been around for months. Technicly its an exploit bu I never had any trouble or ever heard someone got in trouble.

How much faster are you making profit??
So the main question is wether you are using the bug or mis-using it.

If it’s the one I think it is, you’re not gonna get banned because the game keeps spawning infinite mobs.

what is this ..i need to get on this before it’s gone …i hate missing out on these lol

jk aside… a good rule of thumb in game to remember is if things are making you too much money too fast with absolutely no risk, it’s bad news. Except playing to Trading Post which comes with its own risk.

veasna.3675:

what is this ..i need to get on this before it’s gone …i hate missing out on these lol

jk aside… a good rule of thumb in game to remember is if things are making you too much money too fast with absolutely no risk, it’s bad news. Except playing to Trading Post which comes with its own risk.

I agree with you, but the bug that i suspect as well as I suspect other suspect is the bug at Hidden lake in Brisbane Wildlands http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hidden_Lake

On almost every server an event (or I suspect it is an event though there isn’t an event message in the top right corner) is spawning dozens of enemy’s all the time. Firts off all it is a major bug cause people using this waypoint (its uncontested due to this bug) are ending up dead in a massive fight. This bug has been reported many many times in the bug section so Anet should be aware of it and they obvious have trouble solving it.

It is also a possible exploit cause the pressence of the bug makes the heart a lot easier and its also a good farming spot for tier 1 and two materials.

Why am I breaking the rule to not advertise an exploit?? cause Anet should either:
a: remove the bugged event
b: replace the waypoint to a safe spot.

This has been reported since the first time I visited it (in early september 2012). If the OP was talking bout this bug, I truly think Anet has no right to suspend cause this has been reported hunderds of times and there is no way they could put up a temporary solution if it was really a big issue to them.

In any other location I would be more carefull

Are you sure it’s actually a bugged event, or is it an event that continuously spawned mobs until completed?

KyoHanakaze.8145:

Are you sure it’s actually a bugged event, or is it an event that continuously spawned mobs until completed?

In the one I mentioned:
This is next to an uncontested waypoint (never use that one!) where people end up being swarmed by the enemy’s while loading in. there is no event going on but the village/campment is constantly udner attack by waves. This goes on for hours and hours till a servereset. This often only solves it for a a few hours.

Try this: ‘When in doubt, don’t exploit.’ It’s not like its hard to play the game exploit-free for fun and profit.