Guild Wars 2

I am wondering why there have not been anything done about those people in the Silverwastes that exploit the fact that NPC’s are rezzing AFK people near forts that are purposely not doing anything but scaling up events and THEN they get a reward for doing NOTHING! I am tired of people using other people and getting free rewards just for being at the event. They are not doing any damage, some use a Ranger or Necro to have a pet/minion that will attack anything that gets near, but why are they getting rewards for the work everyone else is doing?

Welcome to Guild Wars 2. In the open world, there’s a nice continuum of contribution. You have AFKs who aren’t contributing at all, you have nomads-tank-warriors who also aren’t contributing at all but who are actively playing, and you have people who contribute some amount but not as much as they could/should, and you have people who contribute to their maximum of ability. They all get approximately the same reward. And you have everything in between.

I doubt this a big priority for ANET. Even if it were, there’s essentially no difference in terms of actual contribution between an AFK Ranger and a nomads-tank-warrior. The only difference is one is AFK, and the other might as well be AFK. You can say “but at least the guy not contributing but actively playing is spending time grinding for stuff”, but that’s not really much consolation, is it? They’re sill making things harder, and not contributing. The part about grind is especailly funny ANET doesn’t make grindy games, because grindy games aren’t fun.

You can report people for afking in places like that to get event rewards etc. I’m pretty sure botting is the correct category.

If you suspect or see people exploiting or botting you can use the in-game report tool or send an email to exploit@arena.net. Reporting exploits or something like that in forums isn’t allowed.

The problem is that these players don’t fall into any of the existing report categories.

Reporting players for “Leeching” existed in the original Guild Wars.

Leeching still exists in GW2, but there is no way to report it.

They are not botting, because they are not using any third party software or macros…. they are literally afk farming and using pets/traits to get credit for events.

Anet just needs to up the afk boot timer in silverwastes.

I will get kicked from Divinity’s Reach for afking for one minute…. but I’ve seen AFK SW farmers there for hours and hours.

Pull mordrem to them so they get killed. The NPCs die off pretty fast with each assault. It will def minimize their rewards so long as no player revives them.

Its Escape from LA all over again xD