Guild Wars 2

Is the signet bugged? Because when U use the signet on a gate, it drops really fast! ( why use any rams/golems when u can use a signet to dps a gate down faster)

Can more ppl please test this?

thnx all

Yeah we just tested it. Just melts the gate. Ten people in half a minute just dps’d it. We actually learned it from Abaddon’s Mouth, who forgot to report it.

it is bugged, 60 man abbadon blob exploiting it to the max, every single necro in their zerg running it.
not that they are the only ones, gandara guys were already talking about logging their alts to do it too.

my question is why? how can you possibly have fun running around in 60+ groups at 11 am, beating down doors in seconds with a bugged skill? :s you’d be better off champ farming in pve. oh well.

this needs an hotfix, but Im sure anet will wait for the next living story patch, because this isn’t gamebreaking or anything <.<
inb4 deleted thread btw

Seems Gunnar’s Hold also forgot to report it, melted through our overlook, this is shocking, hope there is a fix for this in patch on the 4th

Suppose it saves WvW player’s some gold, who needs siege when you have necro’s

I smell a hard punishment for exploiting servers/players.

Belenwyn.8674:

I smell a hard punishment for exploiting servers/players.

It’s not PvE so it doesn’t matter in anet’s eyes.

Soooo that is how they recapped some of the things so kitten fast. I and some others on GH where also suspicious about it, thought it was mesmers but everytime found out they went through gates so no mesmers.

Don’t really need to say much more

I smell people trying to sell runes.
P.S. They’re selling like hotcakes now!

I see AM blob is at your keep again gandarans? Are they using it again?

yes constantly using it. its horrible. also most of their blob is necro now

great now gandara use it on the same way at AM’s Keep at eternal battleground and lose^^

How do you report them? am just walked through our BL and I dont think it was even 10 seconds per gate. No siege all using the exploit. For all I care they are all perma banned.

we only show how broken this is!. Als we made sure that we keep the map siege cap up so nobody cant use rams. ty anet for screwing up again

Someone also post it on the bug forum? I cant create new posts or else I would have myself…

msalakka.4653:

Yeah we just tested it. Just melts the gate. Ten people in half a minute just dps’d it. We actually learned it from Abaddon’s Mouth, who forgot to report it.

I reported it yesterday but the thread was moved to an exploit archive to limit exposure.

ANet knows about the bug and they’re probably working on a fix as we speak.

Nerco Wars 2 in wvw, gj now i am wondering, is anet doin’ anything about it?? its ridiculous.. Am should be fully reported for this, GH and GA should not be punished imo, ’cause AM is useing it the whole freaking week, in the last few days thay took full fortified GA garrison in 30sec..

BREAKING NEWS!!!

Siege master’s across Tyria reporting record low sales. Some have gone out of business, other are having to make major cut-backs

On other news… Record amounts of necro’s poping up all over Tyria.
Necro conspiracy?

I have not seen gandara using it, nor our own server. I would report them myself if someone is using it. Testing fine, but these AM need to be banned for exploiting the skill.

now they try it at veloka and lose again^^

This is cool stuff, and interesting. Not my cup of tea..but even after this news, when you see a lone warrior bashing his head against a wooden gate…you realize, there are still spirits (ethanol, methanol etc) left among people in WvW !

aspirine.6852:

. Testing fine, but these AM need to be banned for exploiting the skill.

Why ban Abaddon? Using sigil is a common tactic since 4 weeks now and Aba started using it only 2 days ago. Sure it’s a bit more effective with their blobb, but why only ban them?

Peter.6185:

aspirine.6852:

. Testing fine, but these AM need to be banned for exploiting the skill.

Why ban Abaddon? Using sigil is a common tactic since 4 weeks now and Aba started using it only 2 days ago. Sure it’s a bit more effective with their blobb, but why only ban them?

Because they are now mass using it against gandara and winning because of it. And they have been using it for all matchup now, most people just didnt know that it was this particular exploit. And afaik even if it’s a bug, if you keep on using it like this Anet will consider it you using an exploit. Thus they should be banned.

2days? i saw it since saturday last week.. only that time there was a few necros, now theres a necro blobadom what the hell..

Wow this is the golden age for servers like AM. This needs mass awareness, I really don’t like the idea of devs not fixing this before reset or it’s just going to be signet necros all night.

hahahahahahahahaha…

They found a reason to use the signet of bad.. EotM here i come!

Ishi.1857:

now they try it at veloka and lose again^^

of course we lose, we did not learn to abbuse it like you did ^^
we are testing it, and its stupid how it works.

This definitely needs corrected immediately in a hotfix.

and here it goes, you can dps a normal gate normaly without the sigils too, BUT with the sigils you MELT a freaking reinforced gate down like nothing!! thats not supposted to be like that in my opinion. Reinf. gates should be def. only able to be downed by the kitten siege. this is really not cool anymore.

Distaste.4801:

This definitely needs corrected immediately in a hotfix.

Exactly, gamebreaking bug and used by a lot of people, not going to accuse the world that just breached our keeps etc as i guess more servers are doing it but you can stop with it already!

Offair.2563:

Distaste.4801:

This definitely needs corrected immediately in a hotfix.

Exactly, gamebreaking bug and used by a lot of people, not going to accuse the world that just breached our keeps etc as i guess more servers are doing it but you can stop with it already!

A healthy community would agree not to exploit this until it is hotfixed, guess what will happen in WvW over the next 12hrs….. Maybe the US primetime will show a bit of class if its not fixed by then.

Ishi.1857:

now they try it at veloka and lose again^^

Ahh look at you all acting tough. Why dont you not exploit and face gandara on the field.

Will report any Necro I see using it when I tag up tonight. I won’t have GH sink to that level under my watch… There will always be people on every server who will find out about it and use it…

Commanders should feel a responsibility to tell people off who use it (or even report them in extreme cases…)

I would definitely report anyone on my side I see using it and collect a list of names to send in as a support ticket. Not interested in working with anyone who didn’t see the issue with this. Commanders need to tell people not to DPS the gate down, that way it’s obvious if someone is trying to exploit.

How to avoid this in the future: Remove PvD from the game.

yeah, the gates in wvw should not have a bleeding ability, thay are not freaking creatures who are “alive” ingame its material, material wont bleed.. id say let the skill be there, just fix the gates so the big blobby servers wont exploit it like this, AM even hes necro comanders now what the hell, a backliner on front line.. thats just sad now

Ban that server already, they all know about it and large groups are still using it. They should be removed from the server list and banned for life.

I just tried it and there is no reason to build rams anymore.. well maybe for the debuff.

Let’s hope they fix the entire signet and make it into something usefull..

Yeah I just watched a fully upgraded garrison with people doing supply runs all afternoon get openen in about 10 seconds. AM even brought golems to protect their necros instead of using the golems to get the doors.. How sad is this?

Do you speak German Josh? Noone posted it on the DE forums…

And to be honest, I dont think such a critical error can wait untill the 4th.

This is unbelievable, what will stop players or servers abusing this as reporting each and everyone is impossible.

While I’m glad it’s getting fixed, it makes me really sad that something as major as this doesn’t get a hot fix, while some relatively minor PvE things have…

Josh Davis.6015:

Hey all,

There will be a fix for this coming in the February 4th release next Tuesday. In the meantime, I would avoid using Signet of Vampirism in the manner outlined in this thread.

Thanks for the reports!

While you are at it, how about buffing the skill to actually make somebody use it outside of this exploit.

thank you so much for looking into it.

If you look at Abaddons Mouth’s tick you will see that they didnt get the message, in fact they have a lot of underlevveled Necro’s running around lol. Typical of a ppt regional server.

Lol; so maybe that’s how the blob-servers we’ve faced the this and last week melted our T3-gates so fast. Dunno if knowingly or not, but this would certainly explain it.

Lol exploit.. This has been known ever since the skill was released and you are saying something about it now?

Pretty sure I’ve reported it a few times and nothing has been said until now but good job fixing it.

Saturn.6591:

Lol; so maybe that’s how the blob-servers we’ve faced the this and last week melted our T3-gates so fast. Dunno if knowingly or not, but this would certainly explain it.

Of course they know it, the damage of the signet is almost the same as a ramm. Imagine 10 of the atleast. That is what we are seeing all day on gunnars hold and gandara.

Oo boy this is gonna be a fun reset night.