Guild Wars 2

This is a copy of a post i just made in the bug forum. I thought that i should also post it here to maybe draw attention to it from an admin and get a faster answer because of all the fights it has been causing in map chat this week. Several necromancers (not just myself) are getting threatened with tells and /m chat with people believing that our skills are the cause for a bug that is apparently happening. Please read below.

In southsun there is a riot instigator that spawns just down the hill. I logged in and ran down there waiting for him to spawn on my necromancer. Since i lag like crazy when there are tons of people on the screen (20+ all firing spells at the same time) i laid down my necro marks where he spawns.

All of the sudden i start getting tells about "What the heck do you think your doing? — “What did you do to make him die so fast?” … As well as map chat posts saying “OMG look at that necro exploiting!” I have NEVER exploited and was mad at first. I tried to tell them that i was doing nothing different than anyone else, using my skills as intended.. and i got harassed in map chat and in several tells…

i finally logged off in disgust after about an hour or so of harassment by several players in map chat.

How would using a skill that i have make him bug? There were tons of people there.. which was why i thought he was dying so quickly (or that instigator is just bugged from bad coding)

Me and the other necro that were there were the ones getting yelled at and threatened with bans… yet all the other classes with pre fight mechanics.. such as elementalists with aoe storms and engineers with turrets were doing the same thing, blanketing the area in aoe trying to get hits in when he spawns.

I use staff, like i said because of the lag there. I can throw a set of marks down and at least i get credit for the event etc if i cant move the rest of the fight.

I read the description for all my staff skills again as well.. “Creates a mark that activates when something enters it” or something to that effect. I am not using them in any special way, other than laying them down as intended.

Frankly, im getting sick of every time i log in and go there, tons of people start whispering me and yelling in map chat that they are reporting me for exploiting for using my skills AS INTENDED.

Is using my skills an exploit??? If not can you PLEASE make a post acknowledging the problem and that it is NOT necro wells making that instigator bug…. or should i just not even play my necro at all?

I need to know for sure. I cant find any posts about the subject.

I dont want to get banned for using my skills as they were intended and as the description says with just a ton of people sending in false reports that i am exploiting a bug.

It is 12:15 AM EST and my character is Truely Deadly on the Tarnished Coast server. If an admin would like to talk with me, i will be online for an hour or two, unless i am once again forced off by people threatening to report me for exploiting.

No clue how that’s supposed to be an exploit.

You are playing your class at supposed to be. This might be a bug, but not an exploit.
Iff people are accusing you of exploit or using faul language or swearing against you theyi are the wrong people. Right click their name and REPORT them. Pretty soon they will have a suspension (firts time offenders mostly get 72 hours). For the rest ignore them and keep playing the game as you enjoy it.

Some people lay down ranger traps and necro marks with the specific intent to take advantage of the split second between when the champion spawns, and when dynamic event playing scaling takes effect.

I’ve seen an instigator killed in about 12 seconds flat, due to the number of people doing this, nearly half his HP gone in the first two seconds.

It’s essentially gaming a flaw in the game to speed up a farm, for personal gain. I don’t know if the timing of the instigators are linked in anyway – If not, then there is nothing to gain by doing this, other than annoying players trying to get to the event to get credit.

That being said: Not everyone who does this is doing it for the intention of exploiting. it’s simply the way some classes can and do work.

There’s no easy answers here either way, and I think we’ll have to wait for a red post to clarify.

I tried testing this out yesterday after I read this and the Kiels instigator is subject to this ‘enhanced mechanic’, the other one is not.

I got lucky and found the spot just before he spawned and laid down all my marks, I wasn’t paying attention to his health or anything but there were only 30 people there and it takes about 3+ minutes to kill him normally with that many, but he died in about 30 seconds.

The blue zone instigator I had time to fully plan out and pay attention to it but it doesn’t work on him.

Unfortunately for the rest of the night we got caught in waves at each location so I could never get to the Kiels one in time to test it more on him.
As far as I could tell, it doesn’t affect the loot.

It seems to glitch the scaling algorithm as if I was the only person it recognized.

{ I was just testing, please don’t ban me. Didn’t have enough confirmation to report a bug on it. }

I wouldn’t call it an “exploit”, but I would recommend not laying down traps/marks on the Instigator’s spawn point because of the bug that people have pointed out above. It can make it impossible for people running late to make it to the Instigator and deal enough damage which screws them out of getting the rewards. It’s just politeness, like holding a door open for the guy behind you.