Guild Wars 2

Tammuz.7361:

UnrepentantProcrastinator.7420:

Rengaru.4730:

Tammuz.7361:

Seems legit to me, if they had intended it to be once per account they would have made the chest lootable only once per account (like dailys, DR in dungeons, DR in events etc)

“If they had intended me not to rob this place they would have put a better lock on the door.”

or in Guild Wars 2:

“If they had intended me not to buy thousands of 42 Karma weapons they would have put a higher price tag on them”

It was probably an oversight on the developers part.
Exploiting such an oversight would be called… well… exploiting.

We need to wait for an official statement though.

It’s a pretty huge oversight considering they must’ve known overflows would be in use for the event. And for all events until they upgrade their sever systems.

Again, I just assumed this was intended since they:

A) made chests lootable only once per char, did not link to account like last event 2 weeks ago
B) went to the trouble of making the 20slot box and earing account bound but unique (which suggests to me they INTENDED) for peope to get them on multiple characters. But didnt want people loading up 1 main character with these.

I think what they need to admit is they misplaced a decimal point somewhere in the code for the precursor chance and THAT is what is leading to all these problems.

I’m not even sure the decimal point was misplaced. They DID say drop rate was increased & literally 99% of the online population of the game was participating, therefore leading to an insane amount of drops. Was it a bit much? Maybe. Was the decimal misplaced? Possibly. But if they intended it to be on multi characters I think it would have been all DAY rather than “one time”. This to me just means that a few servers lagged behind or weren’t as fast, letting people take advantage of that.

Tammuz.7361:

Aestina.3687:

Grezko.7950:

NO exploit – ppl that went to other overflows did NOT get to open 2nd chest. This was ONLY available with 2nd character on a different overflow. So no real exploit here.

I think the main issue that people have with it, is the fact that people did not have to complete the event on 2nd, 3rd, 4th characters but rather just tag the boss before it died. I know a guildie who literally ran up at 25% health 3 times and got loot. THAT to me is “free loot”. If they put the time in to do the hours of the event a 2nd, 3rd, time then power to them, but they did not.

This is how all world events work and have since beta, you have to do VERY LITTLE in a world event and have since beta to get full (gold) credit. Includig wacking a mob a couple of times at 25% health or less.

Now suddenly your saying the rules should change (ok), unannounced (err…), and that this should be (with this unannounced change and without a change in game mechanics to even suggest that there is an intended change) a bannable offense?

When did I say it should be bannable? I’ve played since beta, and I’ve ALWAYS disagreed. To me it’s quite silly regardless of the event it being 1 minute or 1 hour for people walk up, toss a few auto attacks and gold credit. It puts off a lot of people from doing it or actually extends the event since some people just sit around looking cute and participate in the end. I wasn’t saying it should cause people to be banned, I am just explaining why people feel it was an exploit. Hopping servers to tag a mob isn’t exactly legit behavior.

Grezko.7950:

NO exploit – ppl that went to other overflows did NOT get to open 2nd chest. This was ONLY available with 2nd character on a different overflow. So no real exploit here.

I think the main issue that people have with it, is the fact that people did not have to complete the event on 2nd, 3rd, 4th characters but rather just tag the boss before it died. I know a guildie who literally ran up at 25% health 3 times and got loot. THAT to me is “free loot”. If they put the time in to do the hours of the event a 2nd, 3rd, time then power to them, but they did not.

I’m not one to complain, and this is actually my first forum reply. However, I was going to post something similar. I know they will be compensating for those who got disconnected, etc etc. I fortunately was lucky enough to loot & only disconnected before the boss (I was also lucky enough to make out fairly well). It makes me wicked happy to know that those whom did not get loot will get compensated for all their time What I found rather irritating & disappointing, as did many of my friends/guildies, is that people were not only able to server hop or overflow hop with multiple alts, but also (this being what irritated me most) is that even if they literally got there in the FINAL stage, with the boss 75% dead they were able to loot. Now, why is this irritating? Sure they put the work in for multi 80s, so did I . I actually accidently stumbled upon an overflow server going back to the zone to complete achievements(karka, daily, etc) and told my guild about it for those who dc’d and missed the chest. I even helped on THAT character for a few portions (“The Walking Dead” was on, & I’m a zombie loving girl. Don’t hate!) where I could have swapped characters but chose to help on the character that was most geared & could benefit best(I unlike most, was not selfish & almost half hoped the rewards were account bound not character despite what I heard). But I know people who also went to a 2nd event KNOWING we/they would not get loot (people had confirmed, others knew it was a 1x chest, chests take 24 hrs to reset, etc) because their friends or guild only had a handful of members who needed the event & found an overflow with it just by zoning in and not “spamming” overflow servers. But what appalled 99% of my guild & friends was one of our guildies who had went to TWO events, and got TWO pre cursors, came in on another alt after sleeping for 3 hrs, logged on to hop onto the server and got credit for hitting the boss a few times at 25%. He had done this his 2nd time also(so yes, 2x he hopped to just tag the mob which makes 3x the loot). Now, the fact people put hours of time into the event, only for someone to be able to server hop and get items like the pre cursors, etc is one thing. But giving them that ability for literally doing NOTHING or enjoying their free time just to tag the mob is where most people got extremely annoyed. Being able to loot the chest 3 times is pretty bad, but 3 times just having to TAG a boss around 25% health is just insanely silly. (Not to mention greedy but let’s not go there…)