Don’t know if anyone else has discovered this one yet, but I just accidentally exploited the crap out of it and my karmic slate needs clearing. So, devs of Arenanet, listen closely…
Short version: I was PvPing in Forest of Niflhel, using a longbow-Ranger build and fighting a two-on-one battle at the Henge. Just before I inevitably went down, I used the longbow’s knockback skill on one of my opponents, pushing him into one of the stone pillars on the map. And when I say ‘into’, I mean INSIDE the pillar. He was trapped in there for the rest of the game. He couldn’t leave, he couldn’t hit anything, we couldn’t kill him, and he couldn’t kill himself. He was able to use a finisher once I went down a few seconds later, but that final act of vengeance didn’t really mean anything in the long run. They lost, we won. We were neck and neck just before it happened, too, so they might have actually won if things had gone a bit differently.
It is the one, singular time in PvP gaming history where accusations of ‘hax’ actually had a ring of truth to them.
This bug looks pretty difficult to exploit, because the victim has to be standing in exactly the right place at exactly the right time. I was a very lucky son of a quaggan. Still, it’s game-breaking and it cost someone a potential win, so it seems like something worth fixing.
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