Commander on Tarnished Coast [RE]
Greatsword Ranger before it was cool
Several times I have seen mesmers offering in map chat to portal people from the entrance of obby sanctum straight to the end. Does Anet consider this an exploit / bad behavior? I personally accept portals when they’re offered, but what’s the official stance on using portals to whisk allies through PVP jumping puzzles?
This deserves a bump. It’s a farming tool/exploit, and it is certainly unintended. The chest is daily but supposedly you have to fight for it. A mesmer can simply service his entire faction (server) non stop and that gives a faction/server an undeserved amount of free siege weapons if nothing else.
In all fairness though, I have no idea on how they could prevent this, so it’s not like I expect a fix tomorrow. I just HOPE they will fix it.
A gorilla that throws barrels at any portal spawned …
There’s no way Anet didn’t consider this. I think it’s great. Players help players. Only try hards fight over the jumping puzzle, so portaling people to the end is just a way of saving everyone some time.
how could this be an exploit? the mesmer portal is a pretty direct skill, with a pretty direct intent.
it isn’t like any mesmer can just walk up and portal everyone. he has to first get there, and the area has to be secure for the action to be even feasible.
The entire concept with portals and teleports etc is something Anet really didnt think through. And they will keep being exploited until removed.
I just wonder what they all thought when the concept was up at some meeting. It simple logic that such tools will be massively expoited.
On the other hand, they have zero control of client manipulating server data for whatever hacks and exploits. So why should this be different. We really talk MMO basics 101 in terms of what not to do.
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Actually it is a big of a glitch/exploit/bug. It is supposed to have limited range, but as long as you drop the portal under you somewhere (As in jumping off a high ledge down to ANY other height and drop the portal). Pretty sure that isn’t supposed to be intended, and that is how people really do it. The EB jump puzzle for instance is way higher than the normal range of a portal, but due to this a Mesmer can just jump down and port them straight to the top.
Smart use of game mechanics. Doesnt sound like a bug/exploit.
Its not everyday a mesmer might make portals for randoms to get a chest.
I do Jumping puzzles with my friend who offers to portal me up to the top when I die, etc. Its just smart use of game mechanics, and if you find a nice mesmer player. Why not use his services.
It would be bad behavior if this Mesmer was sitting at the reward chest 24/7 tping people up to the chest. However I think the case here is probably a 1 time event within a said amount of time?
Whether this is a bannable exploit or not, it is clearly circumventing part of the game. It trivializes the jumping puzzle, which is supposed to be hard and have the possibility of fighting other players.
Worse though, are those mesmers to create portals so that a constant group of trolls can sit on the end of the EB jumping puzzle stopping anyone else from finishing. With the portal in, even working together with a group is pointless, as they just respawn and portal back.
I would like to see portal removed from the jumping puzzles at least (and siege engines removed too). I consider anyone who creates or uses mesmer portals in jump puzzle to be unethical at best.
If this is not an exploit, then I want my owl tonic to allow me to fly thorugh the puzzle. Clever use of game mechanics ^^
arenanet state that its intended and the players will sort it out.
enjoy it.
/sarcasm off.
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