Guild Wars 2

On our server we do orichalcum mining runs. They generate about 3 gold per hour and we have two different groups doing them.

One group is more childish, the other, our group, is more mature about it. All we want is to mine in peace, go out there, grab the nodes, have a chat, make some money and carry on.

The other group now decided it would be funny to sabotage our group by putting portals on top of the nodes we’re harvesting.

Pressing the use key will let you harvest.. but if there is a portal over it, you take the portal, sending you halfway across the map.

When trying to report this abusive behavior, we only have the following options:

- Botting
- Inappropriate character name
- Spamming
- Verbal Abuse
- Scamming
- Selling Gold

None of these resemble the exploitation of a skill for the griefing of another player.

Which should we use and if possible, could Griefing be added as an option?

Could portals be removed in PvE or could portals be given a different activation key?

You know if you right click on the ore you mine it, unless the portal is blocking that too, all I can say is sorry, go teleport to WvW and come back later right on top of the node.

ArenaNet changed the order in which the “F” key targets things, basically resetting the priorities. If you remember, early on when trying to loot a corpse during an event, you would start conversations with every blasted NPC standing around you before you’d loot the corpse. They fixed this….and in the process, probably moved portals to the top of the priority list….above mining a node.

While it is childish for other players to purposely try to hinder your mining, you should be able to click on the node as you’re approaching it, so when you get up next to it, the “F” key will be set to “Mine”.

It requires a little bit more work on your part, but if their griefing attempts stop working, it’s likely they’ll move on and start griefing someone / somewhere else.

Granted….I’m not POSITIVE this will work, but it should. At least give it a try.

The ability to report griefers would be a nice addition, but in the meantime, this could be a way of combating them.

Thanks for the replies. I’ll try the targeting thing but our runs have at least 10, up to 30 or more people in them. Everything goes pretty fast, will have to see if the node can still be targeted. So we tend to just go in the vicinity of the node until we get the “mine” key. If a portal shows up out of nowhere some get sent off :/