Guild Wars 2

Rangerdeity.5847:

you could removethe tactivators and simply add them as a dialog option to the upgrade npc so that people who dont know what they do wont hit them out of curiosity. that would eliminate over half of the abuse

That would only work if you made the upgrade NPC invulnerable.

Swagger.1459:

Have a screen pop up and chat window message indicating the name of a player (and obviously basic info like what structure and tactivator) when a tactivator is used. This should help discourage enemy players from trolling tactivators because then we know clearly who to report.

Thanks for reading this awesome suggestion!

Instead of a screen pop which I personally hate, how about if it’s just recorded in the structure info you get when you right click on it? Then give the claiming guild the ability to block that person.

Sometimes it’s new people that click it because they don’t know any better and that would give a chance to teach them. Sometimes it’s done on accident. I have accidently clicked on one when a Hero Banner was placed too close to it. My bad, but not done on purpose. And sometimes it’s malicious.

Another way of looking at it is this. In all wars there are spies. This game is called Guild Wars after all. So maybe Anet doesn’t want to stop this kind of behavior.

Since Osu wants to ban pinsniping, I thought I would start a counter thread where we can all post our best tactics for pinsniping.

Some are really easy. I usually see who is out front of the zerg. If it’s a guardian, warrior or Rev I can be pretty sure it’s the tag. Then I block them and from that point on its easy to find them in a zerg.

If there are several guardians/warriors out front in a good zerg that moves well together, I look for the one that leaps first. The lag in TS and Discord means they are leaping before their Melees even hear the command to leap.

I either run a ranger or a chronomancer when I want to pinsnipe. The ranger can hit from long distance and also knockback after the bomb since stab is gone. Chrono can double moa and once you call out the moa its easy for necros and others to kill tag quickly. Some people prefer to run thief, but I have never been very good at that type of toon.

So let’s hear how you like to kill the commander.

Get good or get dead. That is what WVW is all about.

Mehm.2036:

Anet should nerf Moa by keeping WvW and PvE/PvP skills different. Commander sniping is ruining this game and making people leave.

MEAT from DPS/QQ Guild abuses the elite skill to the point where it starts making the driver appearance “Invisible Bugged”. He keeps moa’ing the driver stopping them from pushing into Blackgate zergs.

Make the Moa WvW skill into 2sec stun or give swift/might/stablity.

If people are leaving WvW because of pin sniping then they don’t belong in WvW. Get good.

OMG OSU is a whiney guy. There is a simple solve OSU. get good. I have watched KEK zerg and when you are always out leaping front of your zerg, it easy to pick you out regardless of being anonymous. I LOVE pin sniping guys like you because you make it so easy.
First off, there is a delay between when you say something and your people react. Realize that and don’t jump so far out in front of your zerg.
Second, have backup commanders. You are not in a small guild so get some of your other guys prepared to command when you go down. It should be seamless. Look at how KRTA does it on your server.
Third, bring a thief into your party and he/she can use stealth to hide you which makes people like me have to find you all over again or bring a druid that can heal you faster than they can kill you.
OR, miracle of miracles, DONT RUN A GUARDIAN!! Warrior is tankier anyway.
You always run 30+ anyway so just get a sniping crew in your guild. One group of a full zerk ranger, 2 thieves, a Mesmer and a necro should be able to consistently take out a commander who is always out front like you every time in just a few seconds after zergs collide.
Its part of the game and always will be so you can either get good or get dead. It’s your choice.