Guild Wars 2

I’m from the Tarnished Coast server. This week, I’ve been matched up with Dragonbrand and Crystal Desert, two servers that have a relatively high frequency of hacking.

I’ll briefly state that there has been one incident of hacking from my server (probably under the same mindset that other people who hack on the other servers) where an orb was taken. However, when it occurred, the commander in our borderlands had them reported and reset the orb to let the enemies take it back. We’re completely intolerant of hacking from our server, and we expect other servers to act no differently.

However, it’s only Monday and there have been several accounts of hacking/exploiting. There has been a tower claim by Crystal Desert without any of the walls down or the gate. We also checked for mesmers and none were present. This was at Anzalias, by the way. Either they used the same flyhack that’s been used before for orbs (and that Dragonbrand used in the same day to take an orb, on the first day of the matchup) or a mesmer exploited the blink being able to bypass gates. There’s also another exploit that a Dragonbrand Defender used against us when we owned their orb and had it in the Bay Keep. He used the Ink Shot ability to shadowstep onto the inner walls and attempted to destroy the altar. He was unsuccessful, thankfully.

There have also been incidences of enemies one-shotting. An engineer from Dragonbrand was doing 78k crits on a Hip shot (which was used to wipe an invasion on Valley Keep) and a guardian from Dragonbrand that crit 30-40k on regular swings with a greatsword. While not one-shotting, there have been elementalists that crit for 10-12k using Meteor Shower, which only goes up to 4-6k according to people I’ve talked to. Numerous times, I’ve seen attacks for large amounts from “Unknown.” One was with “Flame Mortar” for 4.7k that was hitting us while we were trying to take Klovan one day. I was just attacked by an Unknown using Splintering Bolt (I assume from Crystal Desert because I’m in Tarnished Coast Borderlands and had 3 trebuchets aimed at them at Dreaming Bay). I was located on the Southwestern cliff, the only spot where trebs can hit Dreaming Bay from within Garrison, very very high up off the ground and unable to be hit by attackers, but I started to randomly take damage for 5k from Unknown using Splintering Bolt.
In case you’re wondering how I know the numbers and attackers, you can check it in the Combat Chat Log. If you’re in WvW, I suggest you check it occasionally.

Another incident that occurred today was that Crystal Desert hacked the orb out of the Garrison in Dragonbrand Borderlands. The Garrison was never breached or claimed by Crystal Desert and the orb, in an entirely linear path, moved from the Garrison to the Hills Keep within a few seconds. It’s all completely blatant and frequent.

The amount of hacking I’ve seen is absolutely ridiculous and pathetic. People on my server are discouraged from playing against hackers, where any progress we make can easily be undone in a matter of seconds because other people aren’t willing to play fair. I’m sure the other servers aren’t happy about their hackers because they’re going to cause the entire server to be punished, and it’s not fair to them, but my server certainly hasn’t done anything to deserve this.

I know the guild I’m in, Everything Purple, which you may or may not be familiar with, and other guilds like PiNK and TV, would never tolerate hackers or exploiters. If we saw anyone doing that, we’d report them on the spot, just as Commander Commander Jadon from PiNK did, and call them out in team chat. I know I’d personally run them out of the Battlegrounds/Borderlands and anyone who defends them.

Anyway, that’s about all I have to say about that. I hope this all gets sorted out because I’m sick of it. Something like this would make me quit the game. WvW holds the most longevity for this game in my mind, and having to deal with hackers and exploiters on a regular basis makes it unenjoyable.

Right now a lot of hacking is being blamed on servers for incidents pertaining to a bug within WvW that doesn’t render character models, Not saying that your point is invalid. Just saying that you may be pointing a finger at something that really isn’t the cause of your problem. This issue has been going on a lot lately. Even more since the Oct. 7th Patch, Which has been brought to A-Nets attention and should be remedied soon. Almost all servers are being accused of hacking, exploiting, and/or something else in that nature.

Here is a link to the post where the bug was brought to A-Net’s attention, With a reply of action being taken to remedy the situation.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Players-completely-invisible-post-update-Oct-7/first

All I am asking as a fellow member of the GW2 gaming community is that you be patient, and understanding of current in-game bugs, as this game is little over a month old and is still working out the knots in its coding.

Sorry to hear that you are experiencing problems, I am part of both the Dragonbrand and Fort Aspenwood server communities. And I can vouch for most of the guilds in both servers. Most of the guilds have the same moral values as yours does, We dislike cheating in every form, and we heavily discourage it, when cases of it does show up, we take every action to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

I do agree that a couple points in your post do suggest that there was some foul play involved. But also a couple that could be easily explained by some of the bugs that have been seen in the game.