Guild Wars 2

Why is it that in orr zones, like cursed coast, that you sometimes find two metal nodes right next to each other, unguarded by mobs, and/or there are so many static nodes (never move, timer seems regular)?

It kind of makes me want to vomit when I go to tap on of those types of nodes and see either a naked toon materialize, gather, then disappear or worse, while I’m tapping those 2 stupidly placed and timed metal nodes, I see a procession of characters log in/out at that spot to mine the nodes.

Here’s a hint for ya, ANet. If a toon is naked in a lvl 70+ zone, they are either someone who fell asleep while playing and died repeatedly after being rezzed repeatedly, or it’s a bot. Either way, something is not right, and that toon should get a free teleport to a safe location well away from mobs AND gathering nodes. Like somewhere out in the middle of the ocean.

It’s pathetic design to setup valuable crafting nodes in such a way that they can easily be botted or exploited. Dealing with bots is problem enough, but when you create content that all but caters to them, you’re just begging for bots to be an issue.

Whether it’s bots or players exploiting the crappy setup, you should do something about this.

Two things are odd to me about this.

For one, in lower level zones, nodes don’t always spawn at the same locs or on the same timers, there’s some element of random to it that would make this type of botting/camping inefficient.

For two, the orr zones are ridiculously thick with highly aggro mobs that repop nearly instantly…except for at some of these gathering locs. When you have to slay 20 risen to move 40 yards most of the time, why make the valuable nodes free and clear?

Now, I realize you ANet folks have been busy but let’s be real. It’s very easy to identify bot types. Look at the data. Character never leaves zone. Character is active 24/7 every X minutes. Character has gathered 5 million mithril but amazingly only has 10 in the bank. Account has mailed piles of gold to cheaters. Delete acct. Done.