Guild Wars 2

I have not seen this explicitly asked, so I will pose the question:
Is attacking through a wall a bannable exploit? Specifically, there are places where obstacles are thin enough that certain aoe attacks can penetrate, such as my flamethrower reaching through the wall here.

I don’t think so. AOE is AOE.

I don’t think that it’s bannable, but it’s definitely an exploit. Anything that allows you to hit trough while preventing the enemy from hitting you is an exploit – having the wall as your defense kind of counts.

Ya, I’ve seen Engineers use the Flamethrower kit to hit enemies on the otherside. Mainly see it in WvW when someone’s manning the Ram, attacking the gate and the Engineer uses FK to attack the Guy/Girl and Ram.
It’s been like that for quite a while. Wondering if Anet is having a hard time figuring out what to do.

The only time I hit through walls was in the Wayfarer Foothills by the Wurm event. I was inside the tavern and went AFK. The event started while I was gone. I come back and the doors are closed and I was locked in.

I didn’t want to pay to waypoint myself 100 feet, so I hit some wurms through the doors, as long as I was stuck there.

Is that an exploit? Yeah probably. But I did it because there’s no way out once those doors are closed. lol

Vayne.8563:

The only time I hit through walls was in the Wayfarer Foothills by the Wurm event. I was inside the tavern and went AFK. The event started while I was gone. I come back and the doors are closed and I was locked in.

I didn’t want to pay to waypoint myself 100 feet, so I hit some wurms through the doors, as long as I was stuck there.

Is that an exploit? Yeah probably. But I did it because there’s no way out once those doors are closed. lol

You just stated that you could’ve WP your way out! how is that not a Way out?! did you even see the keys hangin’ on the wall next the Baby Grand piano?

Hehe just messin’ with ya man ,but what I would’ve done is waited til the event was over and not do anything. Then when doors open I would’ve said " ’Bout time!"

I hope they don’t fix this, coz there are sooo many dynamic events I have ‘fixed’ after an event mob got stuck inside a wall!!

I think it’s a common fault that these guys are spawning inside the wall, like Southsun for instance, when a map change has modified the layout but the mob spawn locations aren’t modified. I specifically hunt them down in broken events, usually by jumping into water, then hopping out where for the next few seconds you can ‘highlight’ all the enemies around, including those through walls.

Torqueblue.1945:

Vayne.8563:

The only time I hit through walls was in the Wayfarer Foothills by the Wurm event. I was inside the tavern and went AFK. The event started while I was gone. I come back and the doors are closed and I was locked in.

I didn’t want to pay to waypoint myself 100 feet, so I hit some wurms through the doors, as long as I was stuck there.

Is that an exploit? Yeah probably. But I did it because there’s no way out once those doors are closed. lol

You just stated that you could’ve WP your way out! how is that not a Way out?! did you even see the keys hangin’ on the wall next the Baby Grand piano?

Hehe just messin’ with ya man ,but what I would’ve done is waited til the event was over and not do anything. Then when doors open I would’ve said " ’Bout time!"

I was bored. lol