Guild Wars 2

One of my friends in-game was fighting a champion in the Cursed Shore testing out a new torment build with the new runes recently added to the game and apparently got a very weird whisper during the fight.

He said it was something along the lines of “Wow man, you’re merking me!”. Which was supposedly sent from a member of either the Arenanet Staff or testers.

After the fight he was sent a random mail that contained 10g as a reward for coming up with such a good build.

I’m a bit skeptical on the whole thing, but he swears up and down now that Arenanet can take control of Champions for data mining and figuring out if people are glitching or if certain classes/builds are overpowered in order to take notes for changes/nerfs/ect.

It all makes sense from a developers standpoint, you need information on what people are using constantly to keep things balanced and it’s not too easy to farm, but my question is to anyone who is familiar or knows anything about this topic. Has this happened to anyone else?

I’m very interested in this, and now questioning myself if any champions I’ve ever fought has been a member of Arenanet in control of a champion.

Can this really happen or am I getting my leg pulled?

You might want to look down, because you’re missing a leg.

it would be very cool if this is the case.

imagine if a champion behaves differently than others computer controlled ones.

Anet logic: He has a good build, he’s rich, and he’s bound to earn more money in the future. Let’s give him more money to help him along.

The only thing Anet gives us poor people is worse RNG. Oh, complain about the RNG, did ya? Have another white item, just kidding even that’s not good enough for you. Have a grey claw from a boar, because boars have claws because this is fricking Tyria, where anything is possible. Except better RNG.

I recall Arenanet said that they could control Zhaitan in one of their earlier interviews.
Something about interns jumping into the boss fight and giving players a harder time.

Sobat.8650:

I recall Arenanet said that they could control Zhaitan in one of their earlier interviews.
Something about interns jumping into the boss fight and giving players a harder time.

no wonder he did nothing else but stand still while being nuked for whole 10 minutes by cannons.

Nuka Cola.8520:

Sobat.8650:

I recall Arenanet said that they could control Zhaitan in one of their earlier interviews.
Something about interns jumping into the boss fight and giving players a harder time.

no wonder he did nothing else but stand still while being nuked for whole 10 minutes by cannons.

Awwww c’mon! That fight was epic. Right? Hmmm…

;)