Guild Wars 2

Tonight I was totally on my own and trying to get 100% world complete on my first character, which REQUIRES that I do wvw. I put my Ranger pet on Passive cause I just wanted to run and grab and not get into any fights.

I came upon an odd sight. There was a group of Red guys camped out, all from the same guild. Standing right there among them was a “green” (my server) guy, from their same guild! So since they didn’t attack each other, I assumed a truce existed. Then the red zerg attacked me while their green guildie watched me die and wouldn’t rez, even when I asked him to.

If he was a “traitor”, I’m assuming he was also able to observe our map chat and report green zerg movements to his guildies?

Anyway, it was a crude wvw introduction to this newbie just trying to get some spots on the map checked off. I didn’t even put up a fight because there was no point.

I looked at the “Report Player” options (for the first time ever), but I didn’t see anything in the “reason list” that fit this scenario, which has me thinking it is perfectly legal behavior? Please advise. Thanks.

Another aspect result of Mega server. Perfectly legit.

Spies have always existed in WvW since the beginning (some are more covert than others). I regard it as being a bit underhanded, but trust me, ALL the dedicated WvW guilds have spies. It’s just part of the game now.

Kind of shock, I know, coming from other games where this kind of blatant use of multiple accounts, multiple guilds, etcetera would have been a bannable offence.

My understanding is there are players out here who have multiple accounts with characters on 2 or 3 competing servers, usually with access to each server’s TS.

Last tournament, (Season 2), there were 2 enemy servers (all agreed/coordinated) who worked together, without fighting each other, in order to take turns trading weekly wins against the third server in their tier (e.g. “win trading”.) One week, server A allowed Server B to win, and the next week, vice versa. Both fought server C together without killing each other.

Set a precedent for WvW.

“Collusion” rules only apply specifically to SPvP.

These rules are not in effect in regards to WvW.

ANet has been touting that WvW “is not fair”.

- and that’s the way it is (Apologies to Mr. Cronkite)

guild sometimes do have members from opposing servers… whether or not the one you saw was a spy or not only that person and his guildmates know. sometimes people happen to see their old friends on the opposing server and decide to say hi, so he rep the guild. it is not uncommon.

that’s not to say that spy does not exist. they do, but usually in a form of upleveled characters, because you can transfer empty account (no character) from server to server for free.

Spy accounts don’t chit chat in middle of wvw map with guildies.

Spy or friend on another server. Who knows.
I play on deso and sometimes we have more spys on TS as players. Mostly if we play against SFR