Guild Wars 2

anyone know a good place to afk where i can do a boss or something every once in awhile. Preferably a champ or something along those lines.

What? Are you looking for a boss you can AFK at? Good luck with that.

I study while I play so i leave it on in the background and when something comes up i just kill it to get the event

So you are looking for a mostly safe area near where a boss spawns.

any of hte short duration world bosses would be fine. You could also join dry top and work the dust storm events.

Pillows.1306:

I study while I play so i leave it on in the background and when something comes up i just kill it to get the event

That is actually against the CoC. IF you dont want to actively play, you have to log out to character select.

Wanze.8410:

Pillows.1306:

I study while I play so i leave it on in the background and when something comes up i just kill it to get the event

That is actually against the CoC. IF you dont want to actively play, you have to log out to character select.

Could you quote that part of the CoC, please? I know it’s wrong to set yourself up so that pets score an event for you without you playing, but just waiting around for an event isn’t against the CoC as far as I know.

For the OP, what you’re looking for is a triggered event, then. Something like the Veteran Cave Troll or Giant Boar in Queensdale, where you can wait in a fairly safe area until the event’s ready to be triggered. Most of those don’t go straight to the boss fight, though.

Go to the Viathan Waypoint in Kessex Hills. Spider Queen and Toxic Alchemist spawn there regularly every few minutes or so. There’s plenty of people around doing them repeatedly, so you’ll have company. Good way to pass time if you’re not sure what else to do in the game.

Palador.2170:

Wanze.8410:

Pillows.1306:

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I don’t remember where I heard it, but I do remember reading a post by an A-Net member saying that if you aren’t actually at your computer, “playing the game”, then it’s breaking the rules. Technically speaking, I believe leaving to go use the bathroom would be breaking the rules and could get you banned..

Whether it would, in reality, though :P

The OP isn’t asking for a place that allows them to get rewarded for being AFK. They are asking for a place that would allow them to pay little attention until something significant came up.

There are such places, but they all will get hit with Diminishing Returns quickly. For example, people park characters at Rhendak’s tomb for a boss that spawns every 10 minutes or so. You’ll get a champ bag for each kill, karma/xp for the event, a bouncy/bonus chest (1x/account/day), and a ground chest (1x/character/day). But after a few iterations, you’ll start to see the karma/xp drop to nothing and even the loot will start to diminish.

tl;dr there are places, but it won’t do you much good — you’ll still have to swap characters and/or move each character around every 15-45 minutes (depending on the situation).

ITheNormalPerson.9275:

Palador.2170:

Wanze.8410:

Pillows.1306:

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I don’t remember where I heard it, but I do remember reading a post by an A-Net member saying that if you aren’t actually at your computer, “playing the game”, then it’s breaking the rules. Technically speaking, I believe leaving to go use the bathroom would be breaking the rules and could get you banned..

Whether it would, in reality, though :P

Nooo. Don’t think so. They don’t want you set up so that you are afk and getting rewards and they don’t want you set up so that you circumvent the game kicking you after so many minutes of being akk (about an hour in PvE iirc) but they didn’t care if you go afk for short periods in a secluded spot.

Once you are close the event or hit some damage on the boss
Boss’s health will be scaled

The rest players need to put more effort for your lazy. It is unfair to them.

So, i think this is not a good topic and discuss here. The article should be closed.

Silverwastes, afk at the camp as to not screw over scaling in events. Keep tabbed out and have the completion bar visable. When it gets close to full go join a tower and help complete the defense, pop into the boss, kill it, go do vinewrath, complete it, then join a new map and afk at the camp again and rinse and repeat. You’re kinda screwing people over in not helping, but not so much if you just hang at the camp and not leaching the tower defense. As long as you don’t have like half or more of the people on the map doing this it should be easily controllable. Not something I’d really advocate for that reason, but the best option for what you want. You’ll end up doing the boss rotation (which takes about 30 mins or so) every so often.

Thanks for the replies. Scaling isn’t a big factor because when the event pops up I do the entire event. I just don’t want to be attacked while im waiting for it. Got a lot of studying to do and killing a boss every 15 minutes or so is a nice break. Thanks again I will try some of these places out.

Dredgehaunt Cliffs, when you leave Holebrak the first hut at the left.
Every 12 minutes there starts the event with the veteran possible partner where you
just have to talk to that guy and after fighting him kill the Svanir Shaman following
the way to the left.

Those are 2 fast events that i used a lot for leveling before Megaservers. With guesting
it were 6 events every 12 minutes .. 30 events per hour ^^

However after an hour you run into DR.

So I’m breaking the rules when I have to jump up from play time to assist my heavily pregnant wife with our toddler?
Nice to know we risk punishment for having lives.

Defeat Chief Otyugh

This is in Fields of Ruin, far southeast. Very fast respawn and soloable. A nice grape patch nearby that you can gather from every day.

Nothing in the CoC or anything says a player can not wait around for an event to spawn. O.o That makes is sound like everyone waiting for Taco at the daily reset is in violation.

Which is what the OP is looking for. An event that spawns periodically that he can participate in when it is up.

Be AFK and then play when you see that an even stated is totally fine.
Be AFK and do an event while you are still AFK is banable.

My preference is to hang out in Hirathi Hinterlands around the Ulgoth event chain. It’s pretty easy to solo most of that chain, but you usually won’t have to. Though the Ulgoth part only happens a few times a day, the rest of it happens fairly regularly.

Hidori.3472:

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You’ve misunderstood the OP. He doesn’t want to get afk credit, he wants to wait safely until there is an event to do, participate fully in the event, then afk to study some more. He’s not one of the problem children.

Hidori.3472:

Belzebu.3912:

Be AFK and then play when you see that an even stated is totally fine.
Be AFK and do an event while you are still AFK is banable.

Nobody give’s a bleep about afkers.

I also don’t care, I’m just stating a fact.

Even if he afks through an event, if nothing related to his character participate in an event, pet, some trait, etc, it will not include him in scaling, and he will receive no credit.

tl;dr, afk people do not scale events.

Warcry.1596:

Even if he afks through an event, if nothing related to his character participate in an event, pet, some trait, etc, it will not include him in scaling, and he will receive no credit.

tl;dr, afk people do not scale events.

Pretty sure that’s not how scaling is designed. Whether or not people are participating, if they are in the area the event assumes they’re going to participate and reacts accordingly.

Wanze.8410:

Pillows.1306:

I study while I play so i leave it on in the background and when something comes up i just kill it to get the event

That is actually against the CoC. IF you dont want to actively play, you have to log out to character select.

AFKing is not against the ToS. If you AFK, the game will eventually log you out due to inactivity. If you’re at your computer and just sort of lingering, participating in things when they come up, that is entirely within reason because you haven’t set up anything to play itself in your absence. It only gets played when you physically press buttons. The only time its against the ToS is if you are AFK and set up some system so that the game plays itself automatically (either by macro, script, or whatever); that is considered botting and will get your account actioned.

ShotgunDiplomat.7239:

So I’m breaking the rules when I have to jump up from play time to assist my heavily pregnant wife with our toddler?
Nice to know we risk punishment for having lives.

No you aren’t breaking the rules. Someone misquoted and misunderstood.

There are people who look for any wording in policy that allows them to gain rewards without truly playing, so various ANet staff have tried to clarify what will result in an infraction. They have used the phrase “if you can keep playing after walking away from your keyboard” to indicate the transition from acceptable to unacceptable.

People have tried to take this literally as in: “it’s ok to alt-tab (since I’m not ‘away’ from the keyboard)” or “so I get punished for going to the bathroom” — neither of which is true. The point is: if you are actively playing, there’s no problem. If you are trying to keep getting rewards without controlling your character, there is.

So people should feel comfortable dealing with life and especially with emergencies without fear of ANet doing anything to their account.

The OP’s example is something of a gray area: on the one hand, they aren’t actively playing the character every second of every minute. On the other hand, they intend to whenever there’s combat. I don’t think we can be sure how ANet would handle that, but my bet is that it’s ok, within the context of the original post.

ITheNormalPerson.9275:

Palador.2170:

Wanze.8410:

Pillows.1306:

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I don’t remember where I heard it, but I do remember reading a post by an A-Net member saying that if you aren’t actually at your computer, “playing the game”, then it’s breaking the rules. Technically speaking, I believe leaving to go use the bathroom would be breaking the rules and could get you banned..

Whether it would, in reality, though :P

If you’re thinking of the thread I think you’re thinking of, you have it a bit wrong.

The thread in question was about an engineer that was going to SilverWastes, and setting up turrets in event locations. Then they’d be AFK while the turrets scored the occasional hit on things, so they got event participation. That’s where the problem was, that the game was playing itself for them and giving them rewards.

Lingering in a fairly safe area and waiting for events is fine. You’re not getting any rewards, so there’s no unfairness about it.

The best place to AFK is clearly in WvW spawn…

I love AFKers. I faithfully revive them each time I run past.

Well its more like partial AFKing and Anet pretty much destroyed it a while back with diminishing returns~ you can’t do the same event ina row otherwise you get reward reduced to nothingness. Sparkfly near Tequatl was one of my favorite spots~ not so much for Tequatl anymore as this was before his update but for the Krait event that I’d farm drops from every time it popped and would do something else till next wave. I also liked the middle camp in Cursed Shore for that as well but they completely annihilated those events. It was harmless but was probably ruined by rangers and engi or something, no idea honestly.

You could always try helping Dolyaks around SW (the mobs are lootable) and doing VW when it pops~ don’t suggest AFKing in the area during the fight though.

Kal Spiro.9745:

Warcry.1596:

Even if he afks through an event, if nothing related to his character participate in an event, pet, some trait, etc, it will not include him in scaling, and he will receive no credit.

tl;dr, afk people do not scale events.

Pretty sure that’s not how scaling is designed. Whether or not people are participating, if they are in the area the event assumes they’re going to participate and reacts accordingly.

Regarding Dynamic Events:

Scaling

Events can detect that players have not performed any actions relating to the event within a period of time and will scale down the event accordingly.

I have researched how events work intensively, I have seen it work this way.

Edit: Forgot to source: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dynamic_event#Event_participation

And I know anyone is able to edit the wiki, but I have seen what is posted here to be true.

vespers.1759:

The best place to AFK is clearly in WvW spawn…

Anywhere where npc’s will revive you again and again…

Or just get an android app with a world boss timer and alarm. Mine is set for 5m before any desired event while the rest check off as having completed them so they don’t beep the alarm.

Rising Dusk.2408:

The only time its against the ToS is if you are AFK and set up some system so that the game plays itself automatically (either by macro, script, or whatever); that is considered botting and will get your account actioned.

What you say is true, although I laughed pretty hard because a lot of players simply bypass AFK detection by setting skills (that don’t require a target) to auto cast.

The irony of threatening to ban players while providing them automation functions within the game that literally make the game play itself.

On a side note, the longest I’ve seen someone AFK in one spot was for three days, lol.

Setting skills on auto cast no longer works. There has to be player input. I tried this last week at Tequatl, went to dinner, came back and kicked for afk.

Weird…I could have sworn I’ve AFK’ed doing that within the last month or so. Anyway trying it right now just to confirm