Guild Wars 2

Tonite was one of the few nites that Anet Devs didn’t run with TTS for the Wurm attempt, so they couldn’t see how bad the last fix was. Instead of programming the Wurm Head to not leave/be pulled from the arena ring, they made it Invulnerable once it does. This is quite sad, as the last two runs had Cobalt run into the water, causing a long period of Invulnerability. That caused us to lose previous DPS time, as we had to wait for him to wiggle back into play.

So as a solution, I propose that either his movement mechanics be updated so he doesn’t leave the arena at any point, or increase the ring size of Cobalt so we don’t have to suffer through resets while the timer ticks.

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I would have to agree with OP, while it was an exploit in many ways to lure wurm outside of the circle, this solution ought to be more properly thought out. For a very short timer, it seems horribly unnecessary to make the wurm go invulnerable at all. Please change this.

As I said in the other thread discussing this topic:
I believe this is nothing more than an early “lets put something in quickly to prevent exploiting that doesn’t involve Shazbawt having to work 24/7”. A more permenant fix is most likely being worked on by the dev team.

I’m not saying that this is a “good” fix, it’s clearly broken in itself. But it means that people can’t cheat to earn the loot. That is the positive.
Personally, I think the best fix would be putting in a ledge just high enough to prevent the wurms from leaving the arena (won’t be pretty, but will work), or extend the area of the events significantly and allow the wurms to swim (underwater wurmbat!)