Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I hot joined a sPvP game and was on the team of an elementalist (I won’t reveal their name, as people may contact them to find out this glitch). I noticed someone complaining about something in the map chat saying he was abusing some kind of bug with his elite skill, I have no idea about eles, so I had no idea if he was, but the match was quickly over.

Next map comes, I’m on the other team, I go to cap a point, get my butt kicked and retreat, straight into the path of this elementalist who is low on health and harassing a team mate. I pursue, down him, start to finish him, and he’s instantly up with 50%+ health. Okay … down him again, keep attacking, within seconds he appears to be back up again. This happened three times in total, until I got ganked by his team mates.

I tried to report this ingame but see no “Bug abuse” option. I apologise for the lack of information I can provide on this subject, but I really have no idea how he was doing it. There was no one nearby to res him (and his downed state health didn’t replenish, he literally goes from ~50% to back up in the blink of an eye).

I’ll try and do some investigation myself into what could of caused it but any other player input is greatly welcome.

I think it has something to do with Glyph of Renewal.
It can revive the elementalist who is attuned to fire. However, this skill has a very long cooldown, so he couldn’t use it three times in a row.

Why don’t you just ask the player? I would personally never report someone for exploitation if I don’t know how to play the class, it could get an innocent banned and it wastes the GM’s time. There is not enough information here to be aware of the situation at the time, but you might want to start recording your game-play. Recording your playing and playing it back later when you have time to go through it play by play will help you understand your opponents maneuvering and will help you correct your own mistakes.

@Pinkhoney – Yes, I do not understand the class enough to know how this is done, but I understand the game enough to know this is clearly something that shouldn’t be happening. We’re talking about less than 15 seconds between some of the down states, and as Tamashi has stated, their revival skill has a very long CD (making it impossible for it to be this alone).

I don’t think the player would be that enthusiastic to share details on a glitch they’ve found and are using.

In all my hours of playing sPvP, I have never ever seen anything go down, up, down, up etc as this guy did with no assistance from their team. He wasn’t even staying in the same spot which rules out any revival AoEs like those that engineers have.

Also for the fact it wasn’t just be noticing what this guy was doing – others had mentioned it in the map chat.

Also I don’t see how I can “correct” my own mistakes, as I was downing him easily enough, and he should of been dead after the 2nd down at the very least, as there’s no way he would of been able to get up from it that soon after the 1st.

What you are explaining here really sounds strange. I play my elementalist since beta and couldn’t think of a way to revive myself three times in a row. There were several bugs in the past involving Mist Form and pets who allowed you to instantly rezz, but those have been fixed some time ago.

Maybe the Glyph of Renewal is even more bugged out than it was before patch? Due to the fact this skill never got fixed, I totally removed it from my utility bar months ago and only use it sometimes in earth attunement (the only one that seems to work somehow at least to rezz some NPCs). I will test the glyph again when I get home and report in case I find some changes since patch who could cause this behaviour. But I highly doubt that. It’s very likely you found a cheater or at least a bug user.

As for banning people ingame if you are not sure whether they are cheating or not:

False accusations can even lead to you getting banned (at least this information pops up everytime you open the report window), so I would be careful with that. I don’t want to know what happened to those guys repeatedly trying to get me banned for teleporting, because I used Lightning Flash during my Churning Earth cast (no idea if they really tried, but at least they said they would)… xD