Guild Wars 2

I don’t play much PvE but have recently been wandering around maps doing the first level of legendary collections.

I can’t believe the number of under-map botters I’ve seen so far. If its the same everywhere then I’m certain its warping the TP massively.

I remember near launch it being a problem and ANET made a concerted effort to fight back.

What tech is in place to combat this under-map version?

I can’t even select the characters who hover for a second before dropping underneath fast enough to report

Please share your experiences or opinions on the matter. Surely ANET can do something towards this.

It has made me feel like a massive mug for trying to achieve anything with human hours.

Plus, I’ve been disappointed to see players with guild tags doing it. How can that happen? I came close to starting a name and shame list, but knowing that it’d probably break forum rules decided against it.

I can’t be the only person feeling peeved with this. Where’s your bite ANET? MMOs need to have some version of social justice. Otherwise it just descends into people clicking stuff, pressing a few buttons and pixels lighting up.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Anti-farming-bot-suggestion/first#post5979059

You are not the only one who is peeved at this. The suggestion I’ve made in this thread is still something I’d like to see.

oops I didn’t see the thread.

Glad to see others are as frustrated with it.

Its a bit irritating to think ANET could do something about this but its just not high enough on the priority list. -.-

Surely ANET could run their own bots under each map version that hunt these things. Perhaps kill them and force them to respawn at a WP with a different colour nameplate so passers by can flag/report them?

I don’t do it for exploitive purposes, just void jumping to get amazing views and really high places to glide from. I won’t say I haven’t peeked up through the terrain to mess with people though. Like to think of myself as a land crocodile. LOL

Byron.1902:

oops I didn’t see the thread.

Glad to see others are as frustrated with it.

Its a bit irritating to think ANET could do something about this but its just not high enough on the priority list. -.-

Surely ANET could run their own bots under each map version that hunt these things. Perhaps kill them and force them to respawn at a WP with a different colour nameplate so passers by can flag/report them?

They’ve already said they don’t ban these types of bots individually, but as part of a ban wave. The reason why is they don’t want the botters to figure out what triggered the ban so they can design around the trigger and bot longer. By banning in batches instead of when spotted the botters can’t say action A or action B triggered the ban and modify it.