Guild Wars 2

for engineers to atack with grenades through tower gates? i dont see how its happening since grenades dont arc that much midair to hover over the gate at close range.

That’s a horrible exploit! But what are they going to attack there???

Oh right…

Siege exploiting the ability to shoot through the same gate.

NVM.

I’ve seen it mentioned many times in these forums, and not in an exploit report. Seems like its wai, but idk exactly how its designed to work. Ground targeting things can generally shoot ‘over’ gates simply because they can view the ground on the other side through the gap, which is within their range radius. This is why arrow carts can do this. I’m not sure how close/far from the door engineers need to be for this to work, but with the camera position issues going around who knows

AidanTaylor.3872:

Grenade Kit skill: Grenades no longer require the player to have line of sight of the target area to throw them.

Grenades (as of the last patch) no longer need line of sight, and as they arch when you throw them you can aim them through the hole above the gate at the right angle.

Its not a bug or exploit, just a nice buff for Engineers.

Dawdler.8521:

That’s a horrible exploit! But what are they going to attack there???

Oh right…

Siege exploiting the ability to shoot through the same gate.

NVM.

or perhaps the players entering the said keep or those attacking the actual gate to push back the attackers or defenders. i assume this exploit is being done with the super box camera bug.

Rezzet.3614:

for engineers to atack with grenades through tower gates? i dont see how its happening since grenades dont arc that much midair to hover over the gate at close range.

I’m not sure how much experience you have in WvW, but it’s normal for every class to have an ability that attacks through the tower gates. Guardians and thieves and warriors spin to win through gates, Engineers grenade/flamethrow, elementalists/necros/rangers/mesmers all aoe through gates….it’s normal game mechanics.

So my grenades have enough arc to go through the little hole above the gate…

but when I’m standing on top of the wall and can target the ground they don’t have enough arc to go over that tiny little lip and still hit the lip of the wall???

Come on. My engi is a little Asura sure but she’s not weak – she should be able to heft a few grenades over the lip of the wall!

Chaosx.2471:

Rezzet.3614:

for engineers to atack with grenades through tower gates? i dont see how its happening since grenades dont arc that much midair to hover over the gate at close range.

I’m not sure how much experience you have in WvW, but it’s normal for every class to have an ability that attacks through the tower gates. Guardians and thieves and warriors spin to win through gates, Engineers grenade/flamethrow, elementalists/necros/rangers/mesmers all aoe through gates….it’s normal game mechanics.

it would be normal mechanics if it wasnt for the camera exploit used to aim behind the gate from any angle and distance. just comfirmed it with an asura normally the shot would be impossible because A: if too close the camera zooms onto the character or B: he’d be too far to make the shot or simply too small to heft the grenades over the gate gap

as soon he went and did a run at super box he was throwing nades over the gate simply by jumping since he was too small wich means tall players would throw grenades easily without having to jump.

and lets point out this bug can be done with Any class .

Johje Holan.4607:

but when I’m standing on top of the wall and can target the ground they don’t have enough arc to go over that tiny little lip and still hit the lip of the wall???

It actually works better if you stand back a little. If you stand right next to the lip the grenades will hit it but if you stand back a little and give them room to arc up a bit, they will pass over it before arcing down.