Guild Wars 2

WORLD: FORT RANIK

I was standing in the Dwayna spoke road below the bank. I like to stand there sometimes because people occasionally fall from the bank level, and it’s a chance to raise someone. On this occasion, there was a crowd of people standing around. Two or three of them kept dying, and the others were busily resurrecting them. (XP earned each time, naturally, about 97 per success for me at level 31.)

Is this an XP-farming exploit? I didn’t see the suiciders using skills, nor jumping from high places.

I did a few because I thought it was just people messing around, but then left when it became clear that someone was doing something suspect. I was playing Cleopatra Aegyptus, grouped with my fellow guild-mate Armand Vessalius. We both did much the same – raise a few, then depart and report it here.

they must be really desperate if they do it for exp, a dungeon run at lvl 80 gives 177k exp

Sounds like they were trying to get to the secret jumping puzzle that starts near/below the vista in the well but failing miserably. Maybe an event? If not could be bots farming xp that way? Bit odd to do it in such an obvious place though.

Edit: For some reason I was thinking of Lion’s Arch… Not sure then :P

If you enter from Queensdale, and just run down the slope until it goes flat again, where the vendor “Ruth the Carny” sells candy floss / cotton candy, it’s just behind her cart, so nowhere near the well vista. I’d guess bots farming XP, because it’s still going on now, three hours later.

Malediktus: some of the characters doing the reviving were only level 20 or so.

It’s definitely an exploit of some kind. A few characters seem just to jump up and down and then sometimes die. Other characters around them all dip at the same time to raise the dead character. As well, the bots that die often quickly disconnect after they are raised, maybe sometimes before they die, making it difficult to report them.

I’m Steve The Cynic’s guild mate, by the way, the other one who was with him when we discovered the exploit. I, too, thought it was just some people playing around for a few minutes, but then it just didn’t seem right at all. Other innocent players are clearly doing a bit of raising and then wandering off. Others are standing around puzzled.