Guild Wars 2

I’m currently on Henge of Denravi borderlands. I placed a treb on the western cliff overlooking the field to Dreadfall Bay and started to treb Dreadfall’s gate.

Not too long after that, I start taking 2-5k hits of damage and my treb starts to get destroyed. I exited the south west gate of garrison, went around to the bottom of the cliff, and discovered that there were 3 Stormbluff Isle invaders spamming their AoE and single target abilities…that were somehow hitting my treb placed at the top of the cliff.

Could someone tell me if this is a bug/exploit I should report or if this is working as intended? My single target and AoE abilities could not even reach halfway up the cliff.

Sounds like a range-hack to me. Happened in GW1 as well. The question I have is…were they from the same guild, or were all guildless? or a mix?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Retaliation

The above could explain it?

Return damage from retaliation from a Guardian most like. It’s the easiest way to kill a player/treb by returning all damage from the Siege weapon to the source.

I would guess this is an exploit and not working as intended. I have noticed issues with certain concentrations having their ranges applied on the horizontal access while being limitless vertically. I would fill out a bug report because it should not be acting as you described. Additionally all single target effects should require line of sight which it would seem they did not have from that position.

That said be very sure that this is the case and that it wasn’t just retaliation damage. You can view your combat damage information via a chat window to see where the damage is coming from.

i think this is not retaliation since i’ve experience this myself also. while i was standing on the top of the cliff, doing nothing, i notice someone go on the bottom to where i am, then suddenly i’m taking damages.

Happened to me against JQ on the trebs, it’s retaliation and ANet are looking into it.

Dont mind when its the odd hit but when you get 30 -40 hits pouring off the treb when your doing it, you know there are guys down there exploiting the issue. I just hope ANet get it fixed ASAP because it’s ruining siege warfare, wouldnt be so bad if there was a way to repair siege.

SBI here, I’m not sure exactly what happened at Dreadfall Bay but I know at one point we dedicated a few groups to destroy HODs trebs with retaliation. I don’t think it’s an exploit since it’s an ability, but if ANet decides otherwise we’ll stop.

I’d like to mention something else from last night’s battle. I was at Durios Gulch running supply and repairing it for close to 5 hrs last night as we were in the process of first reinforcing and then fortifying, as we were being double trebbed by HOD and attacked by JQ the instant our walls or gate broke. Could they have had a scout? Sure, but we patrolled the area constantly and didn’t find anyone. Coincidence? I don’t believe in coincidences.

After we successfully wiped JQ, then we were invaded by HOD! It was an intense battle and extremely fun! I refused to sleep last night until I saw DG’s walls and gate fully fortified and secure. Can’t wait to see what tonight brings!