Guild Wars 2

I’m just curious because there are multiple dungeons and multiple bosses (most recently, today with the Howling King) where a group will basically pull a boss to somewhere where the boss can’t hit them, and they will just range said boss from that location.

Multiple times it’s happened to me where the person who suggests we do this said “they just did it yesterday” and always said “omg, they changed it TODAY! That sucks!”

I have been hearing the same thing for months every time I tell people that if the boss can’t hit you or reach you, it will go invulnerable. Every time they insist that they “just did this yesterday”. I’m wondering because this very same thing with totally different people was tried with the Howling King with a group I was in about two months ago, and the exact same thing happened where it went invulnerable, as I said it would.

But obviously this person somehow was met with success and managed to do it yesterday, yet today when I pointed out it wouldn’t work and it would go invulnerable, it went invulnerable.

Har har, I know somebody will say “well don’t say anything about it and it won’t happen!”

But really, why is it that some groups have the NPCs go invulnerable while doing this and some do not? I don’t get it.

I don’t want to exploit and am aware this strategy is exploiting, and tend to not want to be a part of groups that exploit, but I’m just wondering why some people apparently get away with it and some do not.

I don’t want to go into too much detail incase it helps anyone exploit the game, but there are certain conditions that if met will allow you to kill the HK unscathed.

If these conditions aren’t met certain people will get invul, and if they are certain people won’t.

Most boss exploits I find are easier to do solo so if you can get a team to get you there and just mess around with the boss you could probably figure it out.

Dunno how it happened; but a group I was with managed to do this. (avoid invul).

I don’t understand it and haven’t done it since.

(When it happened I was VERY surprised, since I like you thought they fixed that bug)

Invulnerability is buggy. I still occasionally get invul mobs while standing on a plain surface next to them.

Wait, why is it necessary to exploit the Howling King? He seems pretty easy just taking him head on. Rumbulus though when Grast decides to go out of sync is a different story.

Both Rumbulus and Howling King are easy. I look down on exploiting in general and would report such people in.

I generally do. I’m just wondering what’s up with the inconsistency. I have no intention of exploiting it, I’m just curious what gives and why some people are still able to do this.

Not all code is perfect and can account for every situation. Hearing about exploits getting ninja nerfed does make me smile.