Guild Wars 2

Could anyone explain how the whole ‘key griefing’ thing works?

I have a key, that I spent a good amount of time finding and creating. If after FE I ‘finish’ the key, and someone else use’s their key, it deletes me key (thank you?).

If I have the other 3 parts done, and don’t finish it, if someone finishes their key then uses it, will it delete my key with the first 3 steps done?

Someone taught me how to make the key (if I could remember their name, I’d thank them), and now I kinda like to spend time doing it. Right up to the point where you can lose all your hard work in one sad moment (why…I have no idea).

Thanks.

If I have the other 3 parts done, and don’t finish it, if someone finishes their key then uses it, will it delete my key with the first 3 steps done?

yep you will still lose the key, whether finished or not even started, it’ll be destroyed if you go through to the steam ogre I’m sorry to say

nottsgman.8206:

If I have the other 3 parts done, and don’t finish it, if someone finishes their key then uses it, will it delete my key with the first 3 steps done?

yep you will still lose the key, whether finished or not even started, it’ll be destroyed if you go through to the steam ogre I’m sorry to say

Thanks. I guess the answer is to just not do it any more. I tried, but there isn’t enough time to go to WvW, get it out of the bank, the character log back to the room and to the ‘Investigate’ step to then let everyone in. The golem is gone by then.

I wonder what evil, nefarious plot the developers thwarted by that design decision. Maybe that and giving Plush Griffons partial amnesia so they forget how to swim is part of a global scheme to rule the universe? Now all they need is a strand of Harry Potters hair and some sort of human/vampire baby and we can’t stop them? :|

It won’t be destroyed as long as you keep it in your bank.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

It won’t be destroyed as long as you keep it in your bank.

Right, someone taught me that. So, could I complete it, all 4 steps, then get out of there really quick if someone else has the key to bank it completed? And then on a subsequent run, if no one has it and no one minds waiting around for 60 seconds while I bounce into the WvW bank and back, it would work?

I’ve only tried banking it with 3 steps done, and I know that part works.

Thanks.

sure, that would work fine. its only destroyed if you have it in your bags. I have several finished keys in my bank (along with some that only have 1 or 2 steps done), so know they can be kept in the bank, and taken out for the next time you go, done that a few times

It should not be destroyed unless you jump into the hole to get on the platform. Personally I would just jump in anyway since it’s easy to get another.