Guild Wars 2

I’ve been seeing this more and more lately, when I’m about to finish off a downed player they disappear. Me as well as entire groups have been left dumbfounded looking around for the enemy player they were about to finish off who suddenly vanished completely. I’ve pvp’d for quite awhile so I have an idea on each profession’s downed abilities. These aren’t thieves and mesmers, it’s guardians, warriors and engineers just as much.
After such occurrences I’ve stayed in the area searching for them/spamming aoe abilities but they don’t reappear.

So how are players doing this? Are they using some waypoint/heart of the mists traveling exploit really fast after they’re downed? Because from what I know you can’t waypoint travel in combat.
Are they quickly logging out/closing their client to avoid getting finished? Are they teleporting somehow? Or is this just a part of the WvW invisibility bug?

So has anyone else experienced this?

They close their client/log out.
There is also another thread about this, and Anet already is looking into it.

For WvW? That person is logging out before you can stomp them to save on repair costs and so you don’t get loot. Usually common when there’s no queue.

I do it all the time.

whoever does this should be ashamed.

I’ve had this happen to me a couple times and thanks to this thread, now I know why.

Pretty pathetic if a player resorts to this tactic.

Haha, nice idea! Gonna try this when there’s no queue.

Figured it was something along the lines of closing the client.
Pretty sad if you ask me but hey, scrub players gotta do what scrub players gotta do. Guess I’ll just pop frenzy to insta’ finish them and then laugh.

Simple fix add a 30min CD were you cant enter World vs World map and you stay 30sec in map after you killed game so you still die.

Or if you log out when downed you’re dead when you log back in. That’ll discourage it entirely.

I prefer with my engnieer to fight near the edge of a cliff and when I am about to die just rocket boot off the edge and tactical suicide off of it to keep from repair costing and prevent credit. Its the more manly way to go than raging off your client as well as actually taking a bit more effort to pull off than just Alt + F4 (also known as Alt+FU to them using it.)
If I am gonna die I will off mah self than wait for a botched execution thank you very much.

Well I guess I was infracted for just posting a link to another thread, but this issue has all ready been addressed by ANet at the following thread, and according to Matt Writter (Game Designer): “We do have a combat timer that prevents players from logging out or using a rally point. I’ll check into making sure this timer is getting applied to players in a down state as well.”. Unfortunately we have no update other than that and it’s still an ongoing issue. Here is the link to the Guild Wars 2 Forum Thread related to this topic: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Logging-out-on-downed-State-needs-to-be-fixed

AlecFair.1270:

I prefer with my engnieer to fight near the edge of a cliff and when I am about to die just rocket boot off the edge and tactical suicide off of it to keep from repair costing and prevent credit. Its the more manly way to go than raging off your client as well as actually taking a bit more effort to pull off than just Alt + F4 (also known as Alt+FU to them using it.)
If I am gonna die I will off mah self than wait for a botched execution thank you very much.

That’s what I do, suicide. Logging out is just pathetic. Not sure why they don’t do like every other mmo that has pvp in it. 1min timer or so from being in combat before you can log out.

Just die like a man…..if you get beat the guy deserves to get loot from you and deserves to emote and corpse jump your body a little bit. Bottom line, get better and you wont have to worry about repair bills….

The other issue is people just jumping off a cliff when they are about to die so you still don’t get the loot/karma from them.

I guess it’s pretty easy the fix, if you are in combat you cant log out, or if you d/c you’ll stay there 30 seconds.

Vorpal.4683:

The other issue is people just jumping off a cliff when they are about to die so you still don’t get the loot/karma from them.

I think this one depends on how much damage you have done because I’ve went all spartan on people before and thrown people off cliffs and gotten drops after a semi long battle with him.

This issue is getting way out of hand.

We should make a list in here of the dishonorable guilds who exploit this.

Of course the thread would be closed by Arenanet and we would be told to report them… yeah… report their corpse that is no longer there.

aetherseed.5609:

For WvW? That person is logging out before you can stomp them to save on repair costs and so you don’t get loot. Usually common when there’s no queue.

I do it all the time.

That’s… well, I wouldn’t be very proud of that, myself. You got killed. Take your punishment.

that’s silly.. just switch to town clothes before the stomp. win win.

cole.2450:

Just die like a man…..if you get beat the guy deserves to get loot from you and deserves to emote and corpse jump your body a little bit. Bottom line, get better and you wont have to worry about repair bills….

not sure zerging over a solo with 30 guys has anything to do with my ability to play. Usually goes “Oh look a fight i can get int…. oh culling, it’s actually 30”

I do this all the time and I’ll continue to do it.

It has nothing to do with repair costs. I just don’t believe in dying when a 1v1 fight went to 1v2 or more. On the occasion you can actually get 1v1s in WvW.

I was wondering if I was the only one seeing this. Thanks for the 2nd thread (I missed the first one).

Spicyhash.7605:

I do this all the time and I’ll continue to do it.

It has nothing to do with repair costs. I just don’t believe in dying when a 1v1 fight went to 1v2 or more. On the occasion you can actually get 1v1s in WvW.

Why are you losing 1v2’s?
weak play still 1v1 or 1v30…..die like a man! Its a pvp zone there will never be the perfect numbers you require to accept a death……fought 10-15 people like you last night, i was the one out manned and they still alt+F4…….bag of fail!