Guild Wars 2

My main is a mesmer and i feel its necessary to disable portal from wvw. The reasons are simple, portals are often abused by unscrupulous people who exploit into towers and keeps via the use of 3rd party programs or simply poor programming on Anet part which allow bypass of obstacles.

Dolyaks are disabled due to abuse

Orbs are disabled due abuse and hacks

Portals are facing the same problems associated with the above two.

If you Anet cant stop hacks and terrain exploits from happening, at the very least disable portals for now until you can.

Or you could fix the real problem. Ya know, the exploits.

Let’s remove everything that enemy can use against me.

Sounds like you’re describing the slippery slope formula for completely disabling WvW in general. Why stop with portals? Since weapons can be used by unscrupulous people to temporarily remove health from people — we should disable weapons due to abuse and poor programming. Oh and armor, let’s not forget armor… it can be worn by unscrupulous people to avoid damage or bypass that clothing optional code the programmers forgot to conservatively cover. And those dern traits… so inappropriate and inconvenient. But then, why not simply remove the asura gates and be done with it. We can just sit in Lion’s Arch and play costume games with nerf toys…that is PvP right?

Urrrrr without portal entre my group wouldn’t have been able to kill the enemy.

Last night in EB, we were at a stale mate, they had Ballistae in their camp and we had them outside taking pot shots at each other after 15 minutes I told a group of 8 which was all we had to get on me. Only problem was the thing bugged and I thought the entre had gone down so I began my journey, popped out of my 3 sec stealth after blinking and made it behind enemy lines, they saw me but POW I thought I’d put down the exit and so did the enemy.

They were panicking thinking we were all coming through but it was just the entre, luckily a brave soul led my team whilst the enemy was grouped round the portal entre and the massacre began, we were out gunned but we sliced and diced, some fell, others did not.

Moral to the tail, even a fluffed portal can be useful without a group popping up somewhere they shouldn’t be :P

If we got rid of portals due to exploiters they’d jump up the walls as parties, it wouldn’t change a thing. Cheaters will cheat no matter what’s on offer to make it easier etc. It’s up to communities to ferret the cheats out and report them, let them know they shouldn’t be doing that.

If Anet put in as much effort in getting rid of bots in the game as the same for exploits and hacks. I would not be suggesting they disable portal entre for the time being.

The community reports but exploiters remain free, the abuses will eventually escalate, just like what happen to the dolyak and orb.

I disagree. Fix the exploits and ban the hackers.

In my opinion, nothing makes legit players quit faster than cheaters.

What use would Mesmers be if they didn’t have their portal?

Anet even said in their latest patch that they wanted mesmers to have some sort of power. They reduced the amount of people who can go through each portal which shows they have no intentions of removing portal.
They may reduce the amount of people being portalled even more, but that just means you need more mesmers and more coordination.

i dont agree that those portals will be disabled but if mesmers are going to keep abusing with the hacking system or whatever it is. Than dont whine if Anet will disable them. This hacking system is ruiming the game. Towers and keeps that have been upgraded fully are fliping without gates and walls are down. wvw players are spending alot of money to upgrad and have some fun defending them. So Please STOP doing this. GH server has proof of this. Last night we lost 5 towers and 4 keeps and probable there were more but we maniged to fraps the hacker.

Ahem!!! As a mesmer I think you’ll find that not ALL of us use exploits and most of us will ASK how someone got in a keep and REFUSE to use a portal if and when the taking of a keep/tower is dubious.

My portals are 100% fair!

Or just make that portal works like every teleport…with the need of a walk-able way between the two points you want to link…That way you solve portal in closed fortress (since the walls will break the link) and in jumping puzzle (no more press F to win…). Simple and effective…

Man,
Mesmers need to be able to do something in wvw.

Being able to win 1v1 fights 95% of the time is nice and all,
But I’m in wvw not spvp.

I’ve already gone from being extremely proactive at destroying siege and people on walls during attacks to just standing there watching a Ram whittle away the gate’s HP because Anet thought phantasms should require line of sight to cast.

Portal is the only really big and unique purpose we’ve got in wvw now.
(Let me be clear, when I say “big and unique” I mean something that every other class can’t do. We’ve still got other uses but I’d have the same other uses if I rolled a Warrior, or Ele, or just about any other class. )

Basically, it’s nice that there’s a job for Mesmers that can’t be filled by anyone else: And that’s Portal.

Stop encouraging Anet to gimp the legitimate players instead of punishing the ones breaking the rules.
That is ridiculously backwards.

It would look silly if mesmers are putting up a bunch of portal exits but no entries.

I don’t think portals should be disabled. Terrain exploits need to be fixed.