Guild Wars 2

I actually tested this out after hearing about it in team chat. In the Bay Keep in Borderlands, if you’re inside of the keep’s outer walls, you can actually manage to shadowstep onto the inner wall using the fifth ability on the thief’s speargun and get inside. That explains how a thief managed to infiltrate the keep before the gate or any wall was down, and damaged the altar.

EDIT: I’d also like to include what Glyph pointed out to me that an elementalist can also exploit into a tower/keep from the water with the use of the third ability on the Elementalist’s Trident Air Attunement Skillset.
Also, it occurred to me that Mesmers can also blink through gates to gain entry into towers/keeps, so those also need to be fixed urgently.

Ink Shot. And I, like others have reported it ages ago. But as you see in patch notes….no fix.

After watching a video of a thief doing this I tried with my elementalist (Trident – Air 3), and it’s possible to get inside the inner fort if you know where and how to cast the spell.

I kinda want an red answer on this one : is it exploiting ? Is this meant to stay ? I mean, mesmers can already bring an entire army in a fortified fort and it is already widely accepted that the use of portals isn’t exploiting.

Yes, Glyph, that is true. However, you have to keep in mind that portaling people inside of towers/keeps requires that the mesmer already be inside in the first place. THAT is valid. If a group does not sweep the tower/keep for mesmers, then they’ll be at a disadvantage. The Portal ability has around and the portal strategy has been talked about for a long time, long before the game’s release, even by developers themselves. It’s always been considered a valid strategy, even from the moment of its conception, I’m sure.

What’s not valid? The use of Blink to pass through a gate inside of a tower/keep. Yes, it can be done; believe it or not. Ink Shot from underwater to shadowstep onto a wall. Also, the same way that you suggested that I did not know about til now with the Trident, Air 3 ability.

Those are exploits. Nothing should allow a character to be able to bypass the walls or gates of a keep/tower without breaking them down. Again, a Mesmer that has hidden himself inside of a tower/keep and remains undiscovered is not an exploit, but part of the game. They had to take the tower/keep at some point, or at least break inside, in order to gain entry.