Guild Wars 2

Its that using Air blast on Wahlen bomb is a exploit?
I mean the skill from the air rifles not the skill from engineer’s flamethrower.

When it comes to exploits we’re never certain on ANet’s views, but as a community I believe we’ve decided that it’s grounds for “unrestricted” records meaning, yes we view it as one.

going for a record would have restrictions like he said ^ an exploit you’ll have to get anet’s word on it

Just to clarify, it’s considered an “exploit” for speedrun classification purposes for the unofficial speedclear records maintained by the community.

You won’t have to worry about being banned or anything like that from it. Dozens of people have admitted to doing it, and even posted videos of it happening with no repercussions. ArenaNet is allergic to their playerbase, so we’ll never hear them say anything regarding it, but it’s an old trick that’s widely used, and no one has been punished for it yet.

It seems to be like one-shotting Lupi, or any number of other oddball techniques that are unexpected but not punished — a “clever use of available mechanics”/“bad design”.

Btw, it is unrestriced in 5 man records, but allowed in solo and duo records

The rules are changing at an alarming rate.

Tree.3916:

The rules are changing at an alarming rate.

There are more rules to change than dungeon content to do.
Shots fired!

How could it be an exploit (or count as unrestricted) if Wall of Reflection/Feedback does the same?

Malediktus.3740:

How could it be an exploit (or count as unrestricted) if Wall of Reflection/Feedback does the same?

They do not do the same. Wall of Reflection/Feedback reflect the grenades The air blast on the gun turns the grenades into rockets which do several times more damage.

The difference in times with/without are minor- we are talking a few seconds for a 5 man team at best.

Wall actually absorbs the bombs rather than reflect them like the air gun in this fight.

So…only anet will know.

Yep — that’s how it works ’round these parts.

Who the kitten cares, sorry why make extra a thread for such a minor thing? This forum is so ridiculous when it comes to such things. Same with this ridiculous view of the ‘bugged’ mossman.

ProtoGunner.4953:

Who the kitten cares, sorry why make extra a thread for such a minor thing? This forum is so ridiculous when it comes to such things. Same with this ridiculous view of the ‘bugged’ mossman.

It’s fine if you want to justify being a bad player by pretending that completely disabling a boss from attacking and moving is a legit tactic, but not fine for you to have such a narrowminded and egocentric viewpoint to claim that just because you do not care about something means that no one else should.

By your logic ‘disabling a boss from attacking and moving is a legit tactic’ – you cheat your way all the time by speed clearing. Or do you kill Kholer ranged by dodging his pull attack how it is intended by the developers? Think before you direct false accusations under your self-made premises what’s right and wrong, legit and illegit.

Disabling Belka from moving seems to be accepted as a legit tactic. It can be very subjective.

ProtoGunner.4953:

By your logic ‘disabling a boss from attacking and moving is a legit tactic’ – you cheat your way all the time by speed clearing. Or do you kill Kholer ranged by dodging his pull attack how it is intended by the developers? Think before you direct false accusations under your self-made premises what’s right and wrong, legit and illegit.

are you saying you can’t melee and dodge the pull?

Hey, you’re the one who comes and rages:

ProtoGunner.4953:

Who the kitten cares, sorry why make extra a thread for such a minor thing? This forum is so ridiculous when it comes to such things. Same with this ridiculous view of the ‘bugged’ mossman.

at some guy who just wanted to know if something was considered an exploit or not. Take a couple deep breaths there, buddy.

ProtoGunner.4953:

By your logic ‘disabling a boss from attacking and moving is a legit tactic’ – you cheat your way all the time by speed clearing. Or do you kill Kholer ranged by dodging his pull attack how it is intended by the developers? Think before you direct false accusations under your self-made premises what’s right and wrong, legit and illegit.

I don’t kill Kholer at all because he’s optional and a waste of time imo.

And no, doing dungeons quickly by itself is not cheating. Try reading what I typed before replying because you are typing nonsense.

Seriously though wtf is up with your Kholer remark? Why do you and so many people demand that ranging bosses is the only way to fight them as intended? Why can’t meleeing be an option? Was I not supposed to be using GS on a warrior and not be using the stone splinters trait on my ele? Why do I have to range Kholer in order to dodge his pull attack?

So clueless.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Disabling Belka from moving seems to be accepted as a legit tactic. It can be very subjective.

Belka is not completely disabled like I typed tho, she will always attack you unless you go out of her line of sight.

The almighty god of underwater combat in my previous quote on the other hand, disables Mossman from both attacking and moving.

Totally diff scenarios.

Mossman does attack underwater .. Didn’t you see the memo?

Okay, sorry, my tone was a bit harsh, you are right. I didn’t think much about it, since the game mechanics allows it and even needs timing – so it isn’t super easy to time it right. There is no bug or strange gliching involved. Yes, imo it is different than the Lupi WoR trick insta-kill inside the wall. But what I wanna say is: the line between what’s legit and what not is very blurry and everyone has his/her own opinion about it. Only Anet can tell us and even there; they have to decide at some point what they think is right and wrong.

I once made a topic on how to use this gun on other enemies in this path.
The topic got deleted and I got a forum ban for 3 days. Consider it an exploit.