Guild Wars 2

I was in a group the other day and they were shard farming arah Explorable, where you kill the first boss, jump over a wall and go straight to the second boss and you loot 2 chests in <15 minutes (8 shards). the person who started the instance then logs of and logs an alt and it resets the instance. rinse and repeat.

i then did some research online and found some videos about it.

my questions are , by doing this is it likely the people doing it will be banned? or will this just be fixed?

i also stopped doing this once i realised what the group was doing as i did not want to risk losing my account.

nobody will be banned, it’ll just be fixed. btw do the chests only appear when you kill the boss?

All chests and interactive objects act like this and if you re-beat a world event boss that spawns a splendid chest and you beat him that same day/session without reloading the map, the chest will still remain open (meaning you not get a new one) even if its an exploit or not, it also poses a problem for long DE chains that trigger a chest spawning boss such as the Modinir King in Harathi Hinterlands. I beat him twice in one long in session (along with others) and couldn’t get the chest twice (relogging in this case clears it but forfeits it as well). What they are doing here is closing the client completely and relogging to respawn all chests and interactive objects and going through the chain to get another chest. its more being predictive of the quest chains than anything.

Rinse Repeat. Get new stuff. I found this whole thing (I call it an exploit) out at the Matrica Provence jumping puzzle when I was unable to load the windy station area and had to close and reload the game. When I appeared at the first Asura gate with the small chest, I found I could use the chest again and again by re-logging, but I only did it once and got real scared.

Yea I was in an Arah explorable group that was doing this earlier. After I realized what was going on I left. I eventually bug reported it after people started spamming /map with LFG Arah “Chest Run”, and LFG Arah LOOT/CHEST/SHARDS 10 min run!

It also makes it darn near impossible right now to find a legit explorable run in Arah, which is really irritating.

Now that I think of it, this is the reason most common materials are getting cheaper and cheaper. This will lead to another discussion I’m having in and out of game about an bug/exploit involving the Trade Post and buy orders, but this is not the place for that. You should see my posts on that in the bugs section in the stickied trading post mega thread.