Guild Wars 2

Exploit to get to them or not?

I bring it up because after I was on a CoF run with a PUG that showed me how to get to them, I showed it to my guild, and we make a point of hitting the oozes whenever we do CoF. When we pick up a PUG or two, we’re happy to teach people how to get there, and the mechanics of the boss fight, but recently, I’ve had people ask on runs: “Is this working as intended, or is this an exploit.”

So far as I know, it’s working as intended. It’s taking extra time, and there’s only one slightly tricky jump to get to the bosses, and it’s not like you’re killing a boss that doesn’t deal damage back.

Dunno if we can get an official response, but I would love to see what the community consensus is.

As in going across the bridge to them instead of all the way down? seems fine to me, isn’t exactly a difficult jump maybe intended, maybe isnt. Devs probably happy that anyone at all is killing the oozes since I imagine 99.999999% of people skip them.

Aren’t oozes from p3? I think it’s a kinda unintended path to them.

The loot from them don’t worth it anyways, so I don’t think this is an exploit.

Isslair.4908:

Aren’t oozes from p3? I think it’s a kinda unintended path to them.

The loot from them don’t worth it anyways, so I don’t think this is an exploit.

Dunno, I haven’t done p3, but the Oozes are listed as a ‘bonus event’ when you get there, and I can’t find anything about them on the wiki or other official source.

As to weather or not the loot is worth it, I’ve pulled molten cores / lodestones out of the chest, but that’s on about 1 out of every 5 runs, so…. shrug. It’s a fun fight either way, and I’m more interested in having fun on a dungeon run than setting speed records…. I just really don’t want to be doing this (and teaching it) if it’s something that’s considered an exploit of any kind.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

As the Dev who built it, I am fine with players doing Ferra’s path also doing the bonus encounter. It’s a tricky jump down, and an additional boss they have to face. It’s a bonus event, and it doesn’t cause any problems with Rhiannon’s path that I know of, so I’m fine with players going out of their way for that additional optional boss.

Robert, thanks so much for the answer!

My guild has a lot of fun with this encounter and I’m glad to know that it’s available to do for the extra fun