Guild Wars 2

Im writing this in the hope a Dev reads it and responds to it, Im not interested in people defending there actions by making excuses for doing what they are doing in COF.

Firstly, I cannot say that I have not benifitted from the action’s of other players in this dungeon but I have been a voice from the beginning trying to discourage people from cheating there way into prestige armor. There are so many bugs and to me being so into finishing the dungeon and clearing events and trying to get things done. I have overlooked a few things such as the lava room which I was puzzled about till I realized what was happening.

Then there is a certain class with a certain skill that can do a certain something in a certain place. As well as members from my group sneaking into a place and bypassing the ending completely. And Ill admit at first I questioned if this was one or not as this skill does seem to do this and I hesitated once and now regret not just leaving as it felt shady.

I’ve begged and pleaded with people to just play it right, Im a semi Hardcore player and I want to do the dungeon the way it was ment to be done. All I hear though is people raging about poor programing and design and other whiny entitlement attitudes about it.

Pretty much at this point I give up and it does seem like the exploitters are right and it seems A net is doing nothing. I would gladly give up everything I got from COF 4 of 6 peices of armor I have STRUGGLED to try to obtain as exploit free as possible just too see the dungeon fixed correctly and people who are deliberatly screwing the game for there insta gratification loot punished Severly for the unneeded stress I have been put through and all the time I have wasted only to be kicked or be handed dirty loot because they went ahead and did it anyways despite my objections.

I will not run COF again until it is properly fixed and working as intended because I do not want to get perma banned as a oldschool GW1 player my Hall of Monuments is not worth loosing over this armor set. However I feel I am being punished and am also worried about my account due to the actions of other players. I problably should of left the last few groups I was in but I just stood there and watched in discust. It is becoming Seethingly fustrated for someone like me who just wants to play the game right.

I would like Arena net to specifically state what they are going to be doing to these players because they are Legion and many pretty much 90% of them have poor attitudes and no respect for the TOS at all and feel justified in doing it despite the fact they agreed not to and feel that nothing will happen to there account at all.

I only hope if bans do come I am judged fairly because at this point I am even unsure if I deserve the loot I got because of some things I was slow to catch onto during a lot of my runs.

people exploited dungeons for weeks,have many of them have been banned?zero.

And you know this how ? Just because you say so does not make you credible at all.
I am feeling your problably right though since nothing has been said or publically done about it yet if they even decide to do anything about it or not. But that does not make what you said credible at all. I have a feeling they are going to be mass banning people or rolling back peoples accounts after the next patch or shortly. But I could be wrong would just like Anet to respond as to what action they are taking if any, But I doubt they will if they decide to do nothing as then everyone will just exploit the dungeon for the gear with even less care in the world than they already have now.

Thousands upon thousands of people exploited cof for a week and no one was banned.

Is this thread just for dramatic purposes? Some guilds literally geared up their entire guild in exotics all off of Magg’s wing and they’re all still playing.

What’s the problem again?

So what if loads of people exploited. that’s no reason to join them… and that’s the kind of attitude they ride with. I’ve been concerned about this myself and asked them. As it is, the exploiters themself without much evidence will probably get away with it, but if you just stick to your principals and turn a blind eye when your team mates decide they just want to be ub3r 1337 mad dogs without doing the time, as long as you’re not encouraging them or actively seeing through the particular exploit like say… Magg in CoF, if you dont also jump through the gate but you’re in the team when the other party members do, and they kill the boss against the intended design…. then nothing will happen to you. you are safe as houses. just report the glitch itself and in time they wont be able to do it, and you’ll be able to resume completing the dungeon legitimately without having to fear whether or not they’ll cheat as there wont be a way to do it.

Entitlement Generation does not understand that some people like to feel like they acomplished something by overcoming a great challenge. I mean I could of bought a game genie back in 1989 to beat Ninja Gaiden on Nes which is a very hard game or I could not suck at the game and earn my ending. Generation Entitlement think’s that they should get armor just for showing up because the game is hard.

The point is pretty self explainitory, I do not want my account to be banned for being guilty by association, and I want too see these people punished for there actions. But I doubt it will happen as they tried to be HARD once and gave into the massive QQ fest that was the karma exploit.

Oh. Well devs promised us a patch about AI, and some graphical fixes, to discourage anomalies. Try again later.
If you don’t want to take any risk, in general, join a guild who farm the dungeon you like, and play with them, with strict rules about “no exploit here”.

p.s. enjoy finding one

I think there is nothing wrong with using the game genie on the NES as that was just you and the game, other players were not involved. Final fantasy and xploder on the PS1, still ok in my books as they were not multiplayer but the moment it becomes a place where your cheating ruins an experience for other people I am against it. Flying over WvW, wrong; Karma exploits, wrong; skipping to dungeon rewards; wrong.

The moment it starts messing up the game for other people then I consider it wrong, I am like you, i prefer to get my stuff the hard earned way, I don’t care if it takes me several months longer, I am enjoying myself and not bored after 2-3 weeks of buying the game. honestly, I doubt you will be banned but they will most likely nerf the dungeons in some way whether it is good or bad.

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

p.s. enjoy finding one

Check out Whispers of Acoma – we play the game the way it was intended.

Telling me to get a guild is not going to solve the issue when guilds are more or less the one’s figuring out the exploits and telling everyone about them. And AI is a big part of the so called reason people are exploitting it. So that does need fixed. Sounds like your jaded about something and think your issue is more important than this. Id say there equal so no idea what your getting at.

Maybee I will check out your guild your on my server.

The “fair” method of beating the Magg room was to kite mobs and suicide train it. If I recall correctly, the creator of the dungeon has stated that this is not the correct way to do it and you’re supposed to DPS them down (which is actually impossible). So, in a way, you’ve exploited even doing your “fair” method.

Run 2 has been broken since release. I’m pretty sure VERY few people have done it the way the developer intended. Your best argument is that one way is less exploiting than another… which is poor argument.

Make it clear when you start a run that you want to do it legit with no hacking or exploiting. If someone doesn’t agree then kindly replace them with someone who wants to do it legit. I am sure there are enough people that would do it the legit way like a real man! :0P

Last 3 groups I’ve run in CoF we’ve done it by killing adds up until about 70%, at which point we revert to kiting. Success every time, no suicide train.

People need to learn to play better, if you need to exploit it, it’s because you suck.

If people still need to exploit in CoF then they should just not even do it because it isn’t hard at all.