Guild Wars 2

For the last few days, wherever I play, I suddenly will see people there. It isn’t that they logged on/off really quickly – I’ll see players performing an action, ie mining something, then freeze – then disappear. They appear long enough for me to read their names/guild tags, but I can’t click on them – and they usually disappear after.

This has happened in PvE, but also in WvW – in one case I saw an opposing server user and attacked them, but they didn’t take damage – and then they disappeared.

These are accounts using a teleporting hack/tool to farm nodes on maps. If possible, report them for botting.

I saw this as well in the Bloodtide Coast map, guy just appeared at the node (which caught my attention because he didn’t run near me), cut the tree, then was gone before I could even click him.

Of course, I wouldn’t think to report it initially until the full behaviour was done. Then I remembered seeing this once before and reading another post about it. And by the time it strikes you as odd, they’re gone and you can’t remember the spelling of the name or which guild.

Kyllaa.1385:

I saw this as well in the Bloodtide Coast map, guy just appeared at the node (which caught my attention because he didn’t run near me), cut the tree, then was gone before I could even click him.

Of course, I wouldn’t think to report it initially until the full behaviour was done. Then I remembered seeing this once before and reading another post about it. And by the time it strikes you as odd, they’re gone and you can’t remember the spelling of the name or which guild.

Not to mention, there are a lot of people who DO legitimately camp characters at resource nodes (so you could be reporting an innocent player, unless it’s in WvW).

Archangelus.8671:

Kyllaa.1385:

I saw this as well in the Bloodtide Coast map, guy just appeared at the node (which caught my attention because he didn’t run near me), cut the tree, then was gone before I could even click him.

Of course, I wouldn’t think to report it initially until the full behaviour was done. Then I remembered seeing this once before and reading another post about it. And by the time it strikes you as odd, they’re gone and you can’t remember the spelling of the name or which guild.

Not to mention, there are a lot of people who DO legitimately camp characters at resource nodes (so you could be reporting an innocent player, unless it’s in WvW).

Maybe an ori node, but I tend to be suspicious of the ones that harvest an onion plant then disappear.

Well that’s the thing that caught my attention, it was a tukawa sapling.

You can tell the difference.
A Legit Player, who has a toon parked, will have a few seconds lag while they see a loading screen, you’ll see there character. It’s about 2-3 seconds of them being idle until the Load Screen drops and they can hit F to mine the node.
A hacking player, who is teleporting, will appear, mine, and disappear, all in about 1-2 seconds at max.
If you are having a hard time reporting them because they are gone too fast, right-click them and Add to Friends list. From there you can actively report someone at anytime from your friends list.

You can also snap a quick screenshot if you need more time to read the character name (to then add to your Friends list as above).

I’ve thankfully not seen a few I ran into last month log in for several weeks now. Hoping they got the axe.