Guild Wars 2

I ran into a hacker today in WvW. It was a mesmer female character on the jade quarry server with guild PNAS. Im not sure about no cool downs but definitely the guy had no collision. We were fighting on the center island on borderlands, and the guy went underground. All i could see was [Jade Quarry Invader] text moving around from under the little island and auto attacks coming out of the ground. There was two other guys with me and none of us could target the hacker that was undergound…
Seeing as to how WvW doesnt show names for the opposing teams, what was i suppose to do? Screenshots wont do anything when the guy is underground and this game doesnt have a video recording option. I had to farm hard to get to where i am and this hacking doesnt make things any better. Please add a video recording option. It would really help against hackers and botters not to mention its just a nice feature to have despite hackers and botters.

Did you try “right-click → report” on that guy?

I’d guess that video recording wouldn’t help much, since you still cannot see the name (but now in moving pictures).

~MRA

This sounds like the mesmer bug. Once a mesmer targets someone.. they do not need line of sight to use their bezerker phantom on their target. This needs to be fixed.

I couldnt click the guy because he was underground and more than half the time he wasnt even anywhere to be seen even though attacks would still be coming out of the ground. Its likely that the times when i was able to see the Jade quarry invader text was when the hacker changed his elevation a little higher. When theres nothing to click or when you cant click something, im not sure how this reporting system is going work.
And to this being a bug, im positive it is not because it was the actual character who using his underwater auto attack, likely because of his elevation being below the water surface. He didnt use the berserker phantom.

there is a bug with some mesmer attacks.. staff 2 i think does it.

i have used it a couple of times and had it teleport me underground just as you describe. you can still see everyone above ground but they can’t target you because, obviously.. you are under the ground.

what you saw may have just been this bug.

i’ve had it happen as well when a warrior did an AOE knockback on my party.. 3 of us ended up inside terrain and they couldn’t target us.

sounds like a known mesmer bug with phase retreat where the mesmer clips underground with the teleport part of the skill

The mesmer was using a staff. Phase retreat bug would explain a lot though bug exploit doesnt exactly sound much better especially when it simulates a hack. Thanks guys for all your answers. Its just all these bugs making this game sokitten right now.

Any teleporting skill can bug you out inside walls or underground. I have seen it happen with phase retreat on the staff, swapping after illusionary leap with sword #3, blink utility and even portal. I have gotten stuck inside plenty of stair cases, walls, gates, underneath mountains and roads and have even fallen to my death threw the world.

Being a mesmer that on average probably gets stuck underground about once every two hours of gameplay, I’d say that the player did it on accident and probably was just as frustrated as you were about the situation.

I get stuck in terrain all the time in this game, and not just from the mesmer skill bugs. I once got stuck inside a supply crate at a camp because another player knocked me down into it. I could have gotten away from the enemy zerg easily, but when I stood up I simply couldn’t go anywhere.