Guild Wars 2

I feel like looking at current pattern, arenanet doesn’t ban people just based on if they performed a bad action, but on if it had negative effects/was done to an excessive extent or something. While this concerns me, I’m not here to complain about my concerns on that – I’m curious if anybody has seen any info which would clear up if the following things were considered “okay” or “exploit”.

1. Mesmer portal usage. Teleporting teammates into an enemy keep, or from the start to the end of a jump puzzle.

2. Long duration stealths – They seem to stack duration. I think it’s intentional, but I’m not sure? Could a group of people with smoke fields/blast combos keep a bunch of people stealthed in a keep, and then retake it? Would that be considered okay?

I feel like these are ridiculous things, but are capable using entirely legit game mechanics (Perhaps for intended potential uses – I don’t know this though :p)

Anyone seen any word on these things somewhere?

I think these are awesome ideas, as to how you would get a mesmer into a keep, thats another story, don’ think they would be considered exploits though

These are things called tactics. People should use them.

hype r.5431:

I think these are awesome ideas, as to how you would get a mesmer into a keep, thats another story, don’ think they would be considered exploits though

Hiding! Perhaps with some engineers putting up stealths for a while. strokes chin

And yea, I don’t think they should either. But lets say for example, stealth isn’t supposed to stack duration, and I don’t know about it. Would running around permastealth with 4 engineers blast finisher applying it be an exploit? That’s my concern here.

Lets just say I don’t want to end up banned, tell people I don’t think this deserves a ban because this is all I did, and then get told “Yea, everyone who gets banned lies about what they did”. I’m wondering if it’s been adressed by arenanet somewhere. If not, I’ll probably just take the risks for now, but yea

As for the stealth stacking Duration thing I cant see it being a banable offense but thats just personal opinion, If anything they will just nerf it it becomes a big problem.

Haven’t seen it talked about by Anet anywhere though so you never know.

Truly, for these things you wouldn’t get banned. If anything, they should just fix it or nerf it. But only if it gets to OP so just keep doing what you’re doing :]

If you ever want to wrap your mind around what an exploit is and exactly what level arenanet is willing to ban you for, google ‘Goons 4×4ing through the Sandbox’. This is an example of an exploit (or a brilliant manipulation of intended game mechanics depending on who you talk to), and in killing two birds with one stone, demonstrates the kind of people arenanet will go after.

IF you have no idea whats going on

tl;dr

300+ trillion ISK/assets (what they will sell it for)
200+ million LP (what they spent to get it)

In other news, I’m curious if the goons were some of the ones brilliantly manipulating the karma mechanic. =D

Silverddragn.3401:

Truly, for these things you wouldn’t get banned. If anything, they should just fix it or nerf it. But only if it gets to OP so just keep doing what you’re doing :]

Well, I would have said the same about the cheap karma weapons! That’s why I’m wondering if anyone has seen any word from this from arenanet so far :P