Guild Wars 2

((Figured I would rewrite this and see if it can be merged with Michael Walker’s thread so more can see, and so a dev may catch wind of it.))

I found a very exploitable bug that allows a player to unlock their second and third utility skills early by using an engineer’s grenade kit. The process went as follows:

Just the other day I dinged level 13 and unlocked my first utility skill. I went back to a skill challenge in early Wayfarer Foothills and finished said skill challenge and proceeded to unlock my grenade kit as I always do. I logged off for the day and didn’t proceed to play much of the engineer until earlier yesterday when the bug occurred.

I went to a skill challenge a bit higher up on the map and completed it while using my grenade kit, and was surprised to find that, after I used a waypoint to move to a different part of Wayfarer Foothills, my utility skill slot bound to key 8 was unlocked, and I proceeded to slot an elixir there to see if it worked. To my surprise it did, and I decided to further experiment.

I went to another skill point located in the same map and used my kit to finish it (keep in mind ALL of the skill points I finished while testing this bug were ones that required me to fight an enemy) and it proceeded to unlock my skill utility slot bound to 9. I decided to test it once more to see if it unlocked my elite skill, but it happened in a very peculiar way. While it DID unlock the elite skill slot, it only unlocked it while I had my grenade kit equipped. When previously it unlocked each utility slot regardless of what I had equipped. Thankfully I was utterly unable to put an elite skill in that slot due to lack of SP and required prerequisites.

Things to note here:

-It seems to be the general consensus on various map chats that this bug can be exploited using not only engineer kits but any bundle considered a ‘weapon’. I have seen some people claim to have done it using a water bucket with various classes but I cannot confirm.

-I can only change the skills in slot 8 and 9 while having my grenade kit equipped, but I can still use the skills I placed in those slots even without the grenade kit activated.

-The bug occurred just after yesterday’s fixes went live, so it may be an issue with that.

-My engineer’s toolbelt skills corresponding with the utility slots also unlocked after I used the skill bound to the bugged slot.

Please at least consider fixing this bug, as it will give other players an unfair advantage over people of the same level. Also, please consider merging the topic to this one: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Unlock-utility-skills-and-elites-at-level-2/first#post4403255

Thank you.

Bumping this, I really do want to know if this is a bug or an intentional feature. I’m too afraid to start doing events or map completes, lest I get banned or blocked for exploiting a bug.

Sounds like a bug to me, you aren’t supposed to get those utility slots that early. If it was introduced with this patch or not I can’t say for sure.

shadow.6174:

Sounds like a bug to me, you aren’t supposed to get those utility slots that early. If it was introduced with this patch or not I can’t say for sure.

It has been confirmed by many people in various map chats that it is, in fact, a bug. I have seen only one other topic pop up on the issue and was hoping to get them merged so the devs catch it easier. Also re-wrote the OP so it’s easier to understand.

Yup I got it. Also, since it could be a exploitable thing maybe you better report it through email too. Report it to exploits@arena.net as it’s the proper way to report exploits.

shadow.6174:

Yup I got it. Also, since it could be a exploitable thing maybe you better report it through email too. Report it to exploits@arena.net as it’s the proper way to report exploits.

Will do, thanks for the info. Getting on it right now.

shadow.6174:

Yup I got it. Also, since it could be a exploitable thing maybe you better report it through email too. Report it to exploits@arena.net as it’s the proper way to report exploits.

Did the same and quoted you in my thread, thank you!

No problem I should have mentioned it at my first post in this thread, hehe.