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sPvP Ranger Survivability Tips

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Thanks guy! I think I have underwater covered. Rangers are pretty OP in water already so I just wing it :P. Time to get Rwoarbear to rock some randos

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Hey,

I’ve seen two bow users who’s done quite a bit of damage with their burst. What’s the way to go about maximizing this busrt skill?

edit: for spvp

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Upgrading a back item, what happens to skin?

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Just checked, and I can still throw my Ascended Plush Quaggan Backpack into the forge with the materials to infuse it with that 5 AR.

I can’t confirm if accepting will lose the skin as I don’t care about the 5 AR, but at least I can tell you it’s possible to upgrade.

Hopefully someone can shed further light on this.

Do it for science!

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Why are some Arenas "No Progression"

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To encourage pugs not to waste their time on petty objectives is what I’m thinking. Ever seen 5 people capture home point?

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Afk/Leavers

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There should be a minimum rank to be able to queue for tpvp and then a time-out for people who are inactive. Quitting is a weird thing to handle becaus some people may just be legitimately disconnecting. Maybe if it happens once, it’s whatever, but if it happens more than once in the same day, you get timed out (and the time increases exponentially for each leave)

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sPvP Ranger Survivability Tips

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Hey,

In my pursuit of mastering all professions in sPvP, I have recently started using the ranger and I want to be a trap master however, during my practice joins last night, I noticed some issues surviving, so I have a some questions:

1. Which trait gives you the most access to vigor?
2. Which traitline gives you the best survivability?
3. What is the most reliable way to remove conditions?
4. Are there any notable combo field based moves we can create?

Unfortunately I want to go 30 in the 2nd traitline, so I just wanted to pick the best defensive traitline to make up for it.

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I have to disagree with all of you Zerk Leets. Not everyone can run a full out Zerker DPS gear. In fact a LOT of the pug’s I’ve been in with where everyone ran with Zerker gear were constantly getting downed, and this was when I wore full zerker gear too. Was it just bad players? Probably, but they definately should not have been in Zerker gear.

It takes a bit more skill to survive in zerker gear. And I don’t think people are saying zerker or go home. It’s just advice that if you eventually want to be an effective player, go zerker because Guards by themselves are naturally tanky if used in the right manner which to the OP means that he can (if he wants to) go zerker and still be tanky; thus being the best mix of tanky dps guard.

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Tank form of Guard = Guard with protection boon. So if you want to be a tank, you need to figure out a way to get access to that boon 24/7. Luckily, many Guardians have already made builds based on perma-protection so you can probably scavenge for them in the forums (hint: look for hammer based builds).

In regards to the role of a Guard, they are designed for support; but they can provide sustained dps as well. Pretty much everything a guard does affects other party members, so they are naturally supportive—unless you go for self-fish meditation builds :P

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hi how to activate permanent healthbars

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In options I believe. There should be a checkbox.

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Wait, I thought invulnerable meant you literally can’t be touched. The warrior signet can bypass renewed focus?

There were already several skills could ignore the invunerable effect…

Are you sure about this? List 2 skill that bypasses it.

I still want proof of this. I’ve never noticed this at all in any of my fights. Unless you are referring to stun skills which apparently can bypass it as Cloud said — I still have to test it after work today.

yes condition/stun skills, maybe a bit of lag on the skill activation and common skills apearing on damage chat window.

This is on large scale wvw, that sometimes i die on the first second of the skill, on small combat as spvp or wvw roaming dont have that problem.

Edit, cant remmember if wells or traps can damage while on RF.

Wells do not affect you in RF. Traps do not affect you (only environmental traps like in AC exp dungeon). Not sure if Invulen state activates players’ traps though when you step over them.

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Guardian’s can be stunned during the casting of shelter too…instead of Block like the skill teorically say

I know that. There are some unblockable moves that exist so that’s to be expected. However I’ve always considered being invulnerable to basically being on a level above blocking which you can’t be touched at all during that state (minus conditions pre-applied). Oh, I just spvp, so maybe it’s a wvw lag issue than the skill itself. Invulen shouldn’t be able to be penetrated.

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Down state

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They should make it so only 1 downed person can rally off a dead person.

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Warriors can’t really tank in sPvP. You would be better off with engineer. I’d look into bomb focused builds or elixer gun.

The keyword for these builds is ‘bunker’ if you didn’t know.

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Wait, I thought invulnerable meant you literally can’t be touched. The warrior signet can bypass renewed focus?

There were already several skills could ignore the invunerable effect…

Are you sure about this? List 2 skill that bypasses it.

I still want proof of this. I’ve never noticed this at all in any of my fights. Unless you are referring to stun skills which apparently can bypass it as Cloud said — I still have to test it after work today.

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Do you mean movment as in keybinds? (I hope you are using strafe and mouse to change direction and not using the turn keys) If you mean movement as in dodging, running, I’d suggest warrior or thief.

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Why do people say 21% extra damage when its 18%? You can’t take damage with Aegis up.

Does aegis go away if you are hit with an unblockable move? And does 3% factor in? If so, it’d be 21% for at least one unblockable hit.

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When you use renewed focus you take damage of all conditions and you can be stunned too , I haven’t test yet if the signet of warrior bypass it , I hope not

I know you can still take damage from conditions – I did not know you could still be stunned, that’s weird and should be updated in the GW2 wiki then.

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Wait, I thought invulnerable meant you literally can’t be touched. The warrior signet can bypass renewed focus?

There were already several skills could ignore the invunerable effect…

Are you sure about this? List 2 skill that bypasses it.

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Problem is PVT isn’t going to make you heal any more or any better. It just increases your own survivability at the cost of DPS output, which means mobs die slower, which means there are more chances for your teammates to miss a roll or something and die.

Slave Driver in COF is an extreme example of this. That guy has no health but pretty much just beats on a player for massive damage until he dies; the best way to deal with him is to just go full glass cannon on all characters and just burst him down before he even attacks anyone. The less DPS you have, the longer it takes to kill him and the more damage he deals to you.

A full tank team is actually MUCH more likely to wipe than a full DPS one, because most DPS teams can drop bosses in under a minute, before they can even do any damage. It’s not just limited to Slave Driver.

Agreed, the best way to take him is to dps him down prolonging it will eventually cause your committed dps players to drop. Again, aggro is not always directed towards the ‘tank’ in fights.

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Yes, of course this is all assuming you have a team good enough in CoF for example to take down slave driver quickly. I usually go in CoF with pugs that take 7 mins to kill slave driver while I’m tanking the whole time. You can’t just learn the game and dodge your way through all the hits, I do the dodging, AS WELL as use PVT.

I mean, every situation has a different tactic. For COF p1 it’s most ideal to use the highest dps to get it done as quickly as possible so your zerker warriors or non-def based players don’t drop. It requires communication really. If you have 4 warriors in your party but 3 are shouts/banner/defensive and 1 is zerk and then you are a guard who is zerk —- yes most likely you’d wish you had more support to keep them alive. But usually the LFG post should cover how your team is made/composed of. But again, you may not want to do that because it seems you probably are more of a team player and anticipate people making mistakes or like having it just in case to carry the team. That’s fine.

I don’t pug as much anymore so I don’t know what it’s like to deal with people who don’t bring enough to the plate to do a good cof p1 run. However, PVT is a personal choice, it isn’t a necessity – it really depends on the party comp.

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Wait, I thought invulnerable meant you literally can’t be touched. The warrior signet can bypass renewed focus?

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zerker guards are a joke.

That’s interesting because I feel that comfy PVT guards are a joke in PvE…

If you want to sit there all fat on hp and armor, full health all the time wasting potential DPS and wasting the time of your group then I guess that’s how you want to play.

I’d like to caution the OP here, and this is from experience, a full set of PVT will be rotting in the bank at some point. I’ve 3 man’d a lot of dungeon content with mostly full Zerker gear without issue. I run with another guard, he’s full Zerker also, runs 12.5k HP and he is front line melee and he survives it.

Gear to where you’re comfortable, just don’t be afraid to run some DPS gear over PVT.

@ the war vs guard DPS argument, post your numbers or formulas, speculation is not fact. Screen shots of 100b or WW alone is not proof.

If by PvE you mean killing boars in queensdale, then no, you don’t need PVT. When I say PvE, I mean doing dungeons like SE, CoF, Arah, Fractals, and CoE. If you go into one of those dungeons with a party, you’re expected to do most if not all the tanking. A zerker guard would do as much tanking as a warrior. The reason I run PVT is not so I have full health, rather so I’m not on the ground, being a pain in the butt to my team, throughout the whole dungeon.

You need PVT to survive in SE or CoF? Lol.

If I’m the only guardian in the party, yes I do.

Pretty sure a zerker Guardian can tank a lot more than a Warrior.

If you need PVT to tank CoF, you’re doing it wrong, Guardian is probably not your class. I tank it just fine with zerker, while being the only Guardian in the group.

been playing guard since release, i think i know that class pretty well…..

Then why do you need PVT for CoF?

You all seem to be so hard headed on PVT being useless in pve and zerker being the way to go. I’ll go try it once more and see how it goes. no hard feelings

I think the more objective summary is that zerker fans do not think you really need PVT. No content really (except higher level fractals maybe) really requires heavy builds of PVT to survive. Learning the mechanics, you can easily anticipate dodges and zerk your way through. Given all the defensive boons, you it’s even more forgiving to be zerk with guard as opposed to other classes.

I think both sides are arguing for two different kinds of play.

There’s solo play (aka every man for himself not necessarily soloing a dungeon) and then there’s team play.

PVT or cleric’s or more defensive stats with a guard, will most likely allow you to anchor (not having to dodge) and take on enemies more easier thus allowing your party more freedom to make mistakes / survive. This only really works if you have aggro on you — and we all know how reliable some aggro AIs are (some aren’t really reliable). Investing in healing power can help support party self-heals and boon duration is always a plus.

Zerker gear will allow you to be more effective as a player. If everybody in the party can handle themselves, this should be the most effective way to go (because bosses are just a dps check most of the time).

I think both sides have valid points. I honestly can’t go back to anything other than zerker because I like seeing the highest damage I can output and I’d rather just hope players can handle themselves in a tough fight.

It really depends on how you view party mates. If you want to help them, going more tanky never hurts. If you want to work with them and know they can take care of themselves, you can give up your armor stats for more effective damage output.

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Upgrading a back item, what happens to skin?

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Can you even use the recipe if they have a different skin?

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For anyone who’s also looking for tpvp interest in guilds or just fun sparring partners in the Heart of the Mists, consider contacting me in VZ. I have access to all professions and have had a lot of experiences between different matchups. I wouldn’t mind setting up a dueling session to help you get better or provide some advice on effective spvp builds. Also Guild Treks are tonight in VZ. Anyone who wants to become a mercenary for our guild is welcome (Mercenary = Rep mostly for guild missions to reap rewards!). Happy Thursday~

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What's the point to use spectator mode

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All they really need to do is fix the numbers. Separate the active players from the total players. I’m getting a lot of 12/20 rooms that are full because there are 8 spectators or so. It should read 12/12 if it’s a 6v6 limit with a vacancy of 8 spectators.

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Switching Gear Bug

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Even though some custom arenas are not gear locked, we can’t switch gears ooc. Is this a bug?

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In my opinion, GW2 is dying

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OP, you make valid points. But the way you delivered them is subpar. You cannot immediately expect Anet to cater to you and your small groups (unless you have like 1000+ people backing you up, which I hardly see in this dicussion). IMO, because they haven’t locked up this thread already, they are taking your criticisms to heart. However, whatever priority they set them as to work on, who knows. But seriously, lay out your criticisms, there’s no point in saying unncessary negative connotations.

Put yourself in the shoes of a new player. While you are suggesting things to fix the game and you, yourself still have faith in Anet; the new player reading your post will most likely feel like this game was a bad buy, and with the internet nowadays, gossip travels fast and can easily deter people from even considering a game.

Although your criticisms may do the game some good, your negative connotations will do the game some bad. Let’s just aim for the good.

Edit: And I want to make sure you understand OP, meaning is in the eyes of others, not yourself. Just because you know what you mean, doesn’t mean everyone else does. And clearly, you have a negative connotation and most people don’t get the purposes of your post.

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Best Tanky DPS

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If you like dodging, 0/5/30/30/5. All zerker. Decent dps with good survivability. I use it for all cases pve/pvp/wvw mostly because I’m too lazy to switch for each so I just made it work.

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People should lose rank for inactivity

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I don’t think bonus pool could work in GW2, because this game only has MMR.

Bonus pool works in sc2 because they have both visible ladder points and a hidden MMR. The bonus pool only applies to the visible amount.

LoL has a similar method with visible LPs (league points) and a hidden MMR, but they have decay on LPs + dropped from visible rankings after 4 weeks of inactivity.

I’m fairly sure the concept of decay doesn’t exist in a base elo/glicko system (correct me if I’m wrong). Modifying someone’s MMR based on inactivity would create inaccurate skill level measurements. I believe Glicko 2 has a form of confidence that decreases due to inactivity, but this only makes your rank more volatile when you start back up. It doesn’t change it if you aren’t playing.

I wouldn’t mind seeing a similar setup added here with some visible number rating on top of your hidden MMR, and some decay/bonus on the visible rating.

You’re right. Interesting information that I didn’t think about. Ideally, my only quarrel is the people who have low games played who are rank in the top 1000. :<

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Server Troll problems.

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Blocking doesn’t stop the people from sending you mail right? jw

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Although losing rating for inactivity isn’t exactlly fair…
If someone goes 10 days for vacation he shouldn’t be dropped. There are many fair ways to keep a ranking system, starting with the minimum matches played. There should be a minimum of 100 games.

Inactivity could not drop rating but make players “invisible” to the rankings until they play a game again.

Nah, leaderboards are competitive – not casual. If you don’t play, you shouldn’t be rewarded for it – and keeping your rating is a reward.

Totally disagree. Competitive does not mean you can not have a life or a family or leave for 10 days. Like they mentioned before, you can just disappear from rankings till you play games again

The only compromise I’d be willing to go for is keeping the rating due to hiatus but other players who play everyday get more points (to a certain amount via daily bonus pools) so they are rewarded for playing and winning. And then add seasons, so let’s say you have a vacation for season 1 and rank 90%. Then in season 2, you are active, you get back to top 500 or so. IMO, look at LoL, Sc2, and see how they make their matchmaking work so well.

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Rune of Vamp

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I’ll check it out once the patch goes live and post in this thread as an fyi.

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Mist Form: Can no longer use utilities and heals while active

This was listed under the Elementalist. But does this apply to mist form from the rune? Just wanted a confirmation before I switch runes :<

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What? I’m sure this makes sense to someone out there but I have no idea what you are talking about at all.

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If this is hotjoin, nothing much you can do cause it’s a zergfest. But if you are talking about spvp. Just don’t go to places where the almost the entire team is camping. If you split 2 2 and 1 in the enemy hotspot. 1 can bunker while the 2 pairs wreck the other teams. It only gets super confusing when you have more than 8 things to keep up with.

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People should lose rank for inactivity

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Although losing rating for inactivity isn’t exactlly fair…
If someone goes 10 days for vacation he shouldn’t be dropped. There are many fair ways to keep a ranking system, starting with the minimum matches played. There should be a minimum of 100 games.

Inactivity could not drop rating but make players “invisible” to the rankings until they play a game again.

Nah, leaderboards are competitive – not casual. If you don’t play, you shouldn’t be rewarded for it – and keeping your rating is a reward.

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People should lose rank for inactivity

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+1 And also to add, I like how Starcraft handles people who actually play often as well ( with a bonus pool) so have a daily pool of extra points to earn for wins when you actually play. I’m not a fan of this mysterious rating that ranks not only inactive players higher, but players who don’t play many games per day.

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Why? How? Just after awhile, they become invulernable and wreck hodgins with nothing you can do about it.

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Hi Guys,

I wanted to start streaming to help people who have had trouble with different aspects of the game, but I am also open to anything people want to watch.

My channel is here: http://www.twitch.tv/arcthefallen/.

If you guys have anything in particular you’d like a video of, I will set up a time to stream it so you can watch while you are on or I could possibly just send you the video/post on youtube.

Happy GW2ing

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/bow = /duel

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It’s been an ongoing thing in the wvw community. It’s pretty fun.

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Zerkers in fractals

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Once you go zerk, you can never go back. Zerker Guard always.

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Why do some groups not get invulnerability?

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Wait, why is it necessary to exploit the Howling King? He seems pretty easy just taking him head on. Rumbulus though when Grast decides to go out of sync is a different story.

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If you are complaining about the method of getting the skins, you don’t deserve the skins. There are people who will climb and wait to get the skins they want. Not sure why Anet needs to change anything to cater to people who just want their skins now when they give no other benefit than looks. This isn’t ascended gear we are talking about here.

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Why Do People Exploit?

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Posted by: ArcTheFallen.7682

ArcTheFallen.7682

We have a guy honestly saying that a Mesmer using portals to get other players from point A to point B is an exploit. Are you kidding me!?

CoF case – you’re skipping a whole event you’re not supposed to skip by portalling TROUGH A WALL.
You’re using the portal skill to have someone skip a whole jumping puzzle just to get rewards. Those obstacles between you and the chest were not placed as something optional, therefore you’re using your skill to break the game essentially.

What are portals for then?

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Why Do People Exploit?

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When is an exploit an exploit and I not talking about bots.

For example(s):

A skill point or veteran is to strong for me to solo. I happen to discover that if I position myself behind this ledge or whatever I can attack him but he can not attack me. It that an exploit or using tactics. Maybe it isn’t so obvious as a gap in the rocks instead its using 3 well placed trees. If this is exploitation then I’m guilty

If there is a Mesmer on top of the water falls in lions arch that is teleporting other players so they can get to the jumping puzzle chest without do the jumping puzzle is that an exploit? Who’s exploiting, the Mesmer or the player taking advantage of the Mesmer skill? Does the Mesmer asking for tips impact if it is an exploit or not? Hum, at what level does the Mesmer get this skill?

If I figure out I can level a toon faster by only doing dailies and only running the starting area is that an exploit? ie 30 minutes at say level 60 verses two or more hours in the level 55-65 area. Guilty again

If a player got to level 80 only by crafting because a lot of other players feed him all the mats is that an exploit? Now that he achieved master status and can craft items that sell for lots of gold and then splits the profits with the mat farmers is that an exploit?

If a player buys gems, sells the gems for gold and buys all his armor/buffs to better compete in WvW or pvp is that an exploit?

If I share my gold with another family member is that an exploit? They did not earn it or have to buy gems to get that extra character slot they bought with the gold I gave them. Guilty again

Since I don’t care about having the best armor or weapons, skins, mini pets or buying exp/karma buffs etc. am I exploiting the game by not buy gems?

Here is my question to you personally. Would you stop doing all those if ANet told you that they were exploits and you would lose your account if you continued doing them?

Question is irrelevant because those are not exploits. It’s like saying, would you stop breathing air because the government told you to. It’s a very part of the game. Exploits aren’t.

Lol, exploits are a part of the game too. I think you are getting yourself confused with cheating. Exploits are just abusing in-game mechanics and/or mistakes. But it’s all in the design nothing external or unnatural about it.

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Why Do People Exploit?

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I would blame the poor upbringing of other mmo games who has put the fault of exploits to the game side rather than the user. Anet has given us partial responsibility as adults to do the right thing or risk the consequences. Anyone who says they don’t know if they’re exploiting something is either in extreme denial or just plain silly.

Let me give you some examples:

Oh, this event seems to be bugged and is infinitely spawning mobs, i wonder if this is intended or an exploit?

Oh this crafting item requires a lot less than usual mats compared to others of it’s same quality tier. I wonder if this is an exploit?

Oh, this karma merchant is selling something extremely cheap compared to others of its tier, I wonder if this is an exploit?

See what i’m getting at? To be honest, Anet is already very lenient with exploits, they only ban exploiters who are seriously damaging the economy and the game and not everyone who has ever committed an exploit. Most exploiters who get banned are the ones who get greedy. When repeating it once or twice isn’t enough but they have to do it thousands of times.

The problem here is not the ambiguous rules. It’s the ban without explanation. I don’t care if they make rules up on the spot. I just would like to be informed on what rule I broke so at least I could regret something as opposed to be confused. And no, I was not banned and I do support bans for exploiters. I just think people who bought a game and got perma banned should at least know what they did wrong.

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Perma-Banned for exploit [merged]

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I, fortunately, was not banned, but I’m terrified. I don’t think I’ve done anything exploitative or banworthy, but then again, I can’t be sure that my normal gameplay doesn’t include something banworthy in the eyes of ANet.

Some disclosure and transparency with whatever the ban was, now that it has been closed, would be greatly appreciated. If we don’t know the details of the exploit, there’s a huge feeling that anyone could get banned at any time without their knowing something they did was wrong.

Has anyone stopped to think that by ANet not disclosing exactly what the exploit was, they are trying not to give people any ideas? If they explain what the exploit was, people who didn’t know about it before the current fix may try to exploit in a similar way.

If you ever have to stop to yourself in game and say “this is too good to be true”… “or will this get me banned”, the answer is probably yes.

As for the people who got wrongfully banned, ANet has apologized for their error and if you can’t forgive them for not allowing you to play a video game for 12 hours, I don’t know what to say to you. They are doing their best to eliminate greedy people who exploit and bot and sometimes people could be wrongfully accused. Is that ANet’s fault? Yes. Did they apologize? Yes. Would you rather them sit back and do nothing?

Thank you ANet, apology accepted.

If any one of these people had the thoughts “too good to be true”, shouldn’t at least 1 person have an idea of what they did that led to this ban? All the previous bans were given reasons, I am not sure why this particular one is an exception. And why would people get any ‘ideas’? Obviously, you are punished pretty harshly if you take it upon yourself to be creative with learning about exploits. Your reasons are invalid. It’s always best to keep the community informed.

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Wanted to say that this guild know what’s up and if you want to be ahead of the game, Rising Dusk is an excellent leader.

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Do hotjoin wins increase rank?

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You are using two different terms here. The literal meaning of rank in GW2 means your PVP level. Which basically just affects your achievements and your PVP animal flag. You can earn rank points in both hotjoins and tournament play. Rating is a hidden value only for tournament pvp (where you queue up aka not hot joins). Doing hotjoins does not affect your rating.

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Looking for a friend to level with :'D

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If you are on a UK server qzer, you can’t guest to DR which is a US server :o

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