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It is in fact people on the rocks and whining? This is a new issue, people have been on the rocks since the event opened up. Please use less inflammatory language to describe the people who are trying to prevent someone from taking away their chances at some payoff for the time invested in the event, simply because “it’s how the skills are intended to work”.
And to top it off, those of us “Whiners” who don’t wait on the rocks, but instead will wait behind the instigator or off to the side, many of us were denied loot, too.
You’re absolutely correct, your skills are working as intended. I think you’re still misinterpreting what people are calling a bug. Nobody is saying your skills are bugged. Your skills are working like they should. the problem is the Instigator isn’t acting properly, and it’s causing what is normally an ordinary interaction to be extremely frustrating for everyone else. And because the instigator is bugged, your skills (which are not bugged!) are interacting in an unexpected and abusive manner.
Kind of like if there was an area of the map which had clipping disabled accidentally in a patch and you could just walk up to some chests that normally require a boss fight / jumping puzzle to get to. your walking is not bugged, but the area of the game it’s interacting with is. Only problem is, in this case, it’s causing massive amounts of people to not get any action on the instigator, which of course causes frustration, as they put time and effort into farming the guy, much like you do.
You are using the skills as designed, yes. That in itself is not an exploit. But using them on a bugged piece of the game can be abusive, and does negatively impact the enjoyment of others. It’s compounded in this case because you literally lose nothing by using a different type of attack and allowing other people to get damage on it before it dies, so there’s not even a material (in game) benefit to this exploitation of a bug. Doing it really only makes people frustrated, and a lot of those people get too emotional in chat.
I think you’ll find that I haven’t been name calling, I’m only trying to outline why you should change your playstyle (for now) until the bug is fixed. I don’t want to see people getting accounts retroactively banned for exploiting because they’re “just using skills as intended”. It’s a bad situation but you’re literally the only person who can stop aggravating all those people, by making a small change to your playstyle, when in that tiny portion of the map, fighting that single mob.
the issue isn’t about pre-fight skills, about this particular instance clearly being bugged to allow pre-fight skills to take effect prior to the boss’s scaling for# of people involved. Unless you think that necromancers being able to trivialise an event for dozens of people in an exclusionary way is “Working as intended”. Yes, it’s how you play the class under normal circumstances, but this is not a normal circumstance.
I think you also need to understand that people expressing distaste for this abuse of a bug is not harassment. The only reason you might feel singled out is because other people stopped doing it when it was pointed out, because they were being conscientious about how their gameplay was affecting others. Being able to affect a boss before it’s scaling kicks in is absolutely an exploit, and continuing to do so after it’s pointed out, even if it’s not yet an offense to A-Net, is absolutely offensive to other people trying to work the event. You gain nothing by exploiting like this, except making people frustrated. Which, I guess, if that’s what you’re going for, you’re doing a great job. But it’s unbecoming to tick off dozens of people then cry harassment when they call you on being unsportsmanlike behaviour and how it is ruining their fun.
The very fact that you recognise that this might be an exploit and came to the forums to report about it, yet continued to do it and defend your actions, speaks more about why you’re doing this than anything else. “Hey this might be a bug and it wrecks everyone’s fun, I should keep doing it as much as possible before it’s fixed!”.
It’s not harassment when you’re asked to not ruin an event over and over, and then have the reasoning explained to you. Especially if you counter with “it’s not a bug it’s just how my class works”… after mentioning that it might be a bug here in the forums. If there’s any inclination that something you’re doing is negatively affecting the gameplay of dozens of other game-buying, gem-buying income sources for arenanet, you may want to consider your position in this whole thing. There are plenty of instances where people continued to exploit after the exploit was discovered but before it was fixed by Devs, that have led to bans. Please consider what you’re doing and the effect it’s having on other people, and potentially the future of your own account.
One of the worst parts of the problem is when someone is exploiting this bug, and is asked to stop, they get defensive, start saying that exploiting this known bug is just how their class plays, and starts threatening to report anyone who disagrees for harassment. it makes constructive conversation about the topic completely useless. It isn’t harassment to ask someone to stop doing something that literally does not benefit them (tossing down the AoEs once the mob is spawned in such a situation will still add to damage, plenty of necros play without this griefing behaviour just fine) , and only makes other people frustrated or upset. If someone is saying “the way you are exploiting this bug is ruining the experience for other people” maybe you could consider altering how you play very slightly so that more people who are spending time on this game they spent money on, can actually have the same level of enjoyment with this event that you do.