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@Pluto – If you guest to Tarnished Coast and map zone to Lornar’s Pass you will usually get into an overflow. I have consistently gotten into OF’s that fill up with enough people to attempt marionette, even if not always successful. And there is almost always an OF or TC doing the Marionette at each event, every two hours. I recommend getting over there at least a half hour before she starts though so you will actually get into an OF that fills up. If you wait until right before the event, you may not get enough people into the lanes to beat it, or even to kill 1st warden.
they farm kills in WvW.
I don’t do it for the achievements. I do it for the loots. So I go to whatever lane needs me. Most of the time that is L3.
What I am going to say is not news to anyone who has been following the threads involving the TTS back to back triple wurm kills. others have pointed out some of the inconsistencies in the statements of leadership and the statements of members or pugs who happened to run with TTS for these kills. However, there seems to be some confusion as to where the bug or exploit may have originated. After watching the videos it appears that the Amber wurm is the one at issue (the Amber wurm is the one on the twitchtv video), not Cobalt or Crimson. The “official statement” provides “We offered to them that we would not do Wurm until they hotfix the bug as we do not want to ‘ACCIDENTALLY’ cause it again” (emphasis added). Perhaps an explanation as to how it was accidental, can be provided, because after watching the video that was posted on twitchTV, I am pretty sure it was intentional. In that video, you can hear in the last few minutes of the 2nd kill with respect to Amber, TTS members of the Amber group were being directed exactly how to perform the exploit, which they did en masse. and just before the actual kill, you will hear an unknown member of TTS say “the wurms are bugging out again, we did it again”, and shortly thereafter another unknown member of TTS says “It is on farm now, officially…” and the adjective “farmable” was used repeatedly, including by TTS leadership, and then they all decide to do a third run because its farmable, and because they want to be the first to have a back to back to back Triple Wurm win for bragging rights – Seems less likely that it was an accident, more like intentional exploitation, which is actually supported by the fact that if they had not been interrupted by the devs, they would have done it again on a 3rd run…Whether or not they intended to eventually report the bug, which potential to report was not discussed at anytime during the video, they were certainly not intending to report the bug prior to that 3d run. Based on the youtube videos of Crimson, I would venture a guess to say that the other groups and leaders from TTS were not entirely aware of what was going on in the Amber group, but the Amber leader certainly did, as it appeared to be directed by either the Amber leader or another TTS leader in the Amber group. But no one should take my word for it, just watch the video, you can skip the beginning of the video right to the second phase and the ending conversations. They are enlightening. I am not saying that all of TTS is to blame here, but there are definitely some issues that should be addressed with respect to the leaders who encouraged and guided the exploiting of that bug, and not just take some “official TTS statement” as truth, particularly when it is a leader of TTS who led the exploit. Review the videos and determine for yourselves. The devs apparently did interrupt them as they began organizing for the 3rd run; however, it seems to me that there are plenty of half truths and fallacies to go around. But I get that damage control is an instinctual reaction to an accusation of exploitation, and the avoidance of appearing to exploit a bug is necessary to prevent the person or persons who so exploited from suffering the consequences. It’s a shame really. TTS is usually a really good community. That the TTS leadership involved in the running of the Amber group cannot just own up to what actually occurred, even to their fellow TTS leaders, particularly those in the Cobalt and Crimson groups who could have suffered the consequences of an exploit by the Amber group, speaks volumes about the integrity of those particular leaders. I understand that there are certain TTS leaders and many TTS members who are upset that this occurred in the manner that it did. I also understand that there is a large population of GW2 players who actually looked up to TTS and their ability to figure it all out, who are greatly disappointed in this debacle. I for one was hoping that TTS would figure it out, without resorting to, what is in my opinion, an exploitation. A lot of TTS leaders and members have worked hard and long hours to try to figure it out, and they have gotten so close. Then a known bug is used, just because another server or guild used them, and we are all supposed to cheer? No. The only thing figured out was how to get the bug exploit to work, in order to beat it. Thank goodness ANet pays attention, and stopped the bug from further exploitation before the 3rd run, and the use of the most recent patch.