Guild Wars 2

Maybe wrong place to post, and maybe there’s posts about it but I didn’t find any.
Today I was gathering some stuff, and all of a sudden a player appeared at the node, gathered it, and dissapeared immediatly after.
Is there like a “teleport-to-gathernodes-hack”? Or did I see a ghost…

The player probably logged on at the node then WP’d away.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some people/bots who just log in to get a node when it respawns.

Garambola.2461:

The player probably logged on at the node then WP’d away.

Thought about that too, it just went so fast, but maybe you’re right.

No….you have just experienced a gathering bot. Welcome to blotting v2.0

Oh 2.0…cool.
I’ve seen and reported many bots, these will be hard to report though, gotta be really fast

Teleporting gathering bot, they’ve been around for a while, just harder to spot because they are inside the map most of the time. Some (not all) have a “tell” that they are a bot, right when they appear they will act erratic, harvest then vanish.

Apparently these have been out since the game released. Just more prevalent. I think that people are turning towards bots because of the DR system Anet put in place.

It’s a common issue, they are looking into it, blahblahblah…happens too quick most of the time to get a screenie, and even then, you never really hear back from them after you submit a ticket, therefore there is no real incentive to take action and report. There are a few threads around game bugs and tech even about this.

Regardless, it sucks. More people ruining the ingame economy.

Could be a player who logged off at a node, logged in and WP’d away. I’ve done that a few times.

Could also be a bot. I don’t mind those kinds of bots honestly (at least until the drop rate is upped), they aren’t impacting any one else’s play since we all get our own resource nodes. Mats are expensive enough as-is.

I used to feel that way, thinking what the heck, should bring prices down, who am I to complain?

Thing is it is the same basic hack that people are using to port around the battlefield in PvP. And aside from gathering they are using it to farm drops as well. Both of those impact all players.

The potential for even worse impact is also there; if the development staff starts putting bandaid patches in that affect legitimate ports, adding extremely long delays to logs, or add charges or limit uses, that impacts everyone. Its not a thing anyone wants. This is a code exploit pure and simple and I believe I could duplicate it if I were so inclined. Which means a decent coder could patch it even easier.

But reviewing the botting I found a way to identify many of these toons with no doubt as to what they are doing. I won’t go into detail but of those I could catch with the bot reporter (maybe 10%) I logged about 30 tickets today. But the real fix is to close the hole on the exploit. It isn’t our job as players to be the front line against an exploit that they have to be aware of. The designers are hugely talented, I can’t believe that talent ends with the artwork and the concepts.

i saw that too….a naked person appeared out of nowhere at the blueberry bush i just gather…disappear…and then reappeared at the sapling tree im heading too… disappeared again…i look turn around and there he was at the copper nodes
i was gonna report but he disappeared[teleport away] before i could

I saw the same thing in one of the 25 lvl zones yesterday. He appeared inside the node then disappeared. Definitely a hack.

Great necro

Yeah they havd been here befor. There used to be tons of them but most have been banned. They were fun to catch cause you had to be quick.

Reaver.9256:

I saw the same thing in one of the 25 lvl zones yesterday. He appeared inside the node then disappeared. Definitely a hack.

I’ve seen the same thing too. At an ore node a player sort of rose up out of node, flickered in and out, then disappeared.

This isn’t a player logging in and WP’ing away, it’s a bot. There wasn’t any visible character movement, such as the character swinging the pickaxe. I think that is what the flickering was.

A player has to open the map and choose a WP too, they disappear too fast for that. Who’s going to pay 1 or 2s just to WP to a tree?