You are driving me nuts. If you’re trolling, you win. Of course I seriously can! There’s a pile of other bosses where you’re meant to do this exact thing! Moreover you are taking damage from him because as someone pointed else he’s still doing melee flurries at you. And no, just because I’m underneath the boss when he lands is not a good reason for anyone to think it’s an exploit. GW2 is a game where you can be on fire while underwater. You can chill ice elementals. Your logic doesn’t compute.
Defending one’s position is not trolling. Just because someone disagrees with you does not mean they’re trolling.
Yes there are some bosses where it’s best to stack on them. The difference is that they don’t do the attack. Subject Alpha does not do his dragon tooth attack when you stack on him. This is because he only does that to ranged targets. The earth spike attack (3 rings of circles) does less damage the closer you get to him. However, stacking inside him to avoid damage is an exploit. THIS was what my example was that was being missed in this thread and by you.
Doing an action that negates an attack that would otherwise damage you is an exploit. Standing on some terrain where a boss can’t attack you yet you can attack them is an exploit. Stacking inside a boss so that their attack does not damage you is an exploit.
You committed a logic fallacy. Yes it’s strange that you can be on fire while underwater or chill ice elementals. This does not mean anything else that does not make since is excusable and right. When the Berserker slammed down players were supposed to take damage if they were standing on the ground. The devs mentioned that the trap boss/sequence/whatever (which was another thing players exploited) was meant to teach you the mechanics for the final boss. You were supposed to jump over the shockwaves that were on the ground level but not jump at the ones that were chest level. The devs intended you to do the fight this way, not stack inside the boss to negate his attack. It doesn’t matter that you can still get attacked by his auto-attack.
I quoted the exact part I meant to, in which you accuse us all of liking exploits because we disagreed with your definition of them.
Yeah you quoted the exact part that you meant to. You did not include the rest of what I stated that added on to it. I, in fact, did not accuse everyone of liking exploits. If you had read all of the posts you would have seen that this was only directed at you and Broadicea; nobody else.
Ruruuiye stated: If they don’t want us exploiting then patch carefully. Broadicea stated: And if the devs had programmed the fight correctly, you would take damage. But they didn’t, so we didn’t. Hardly our fault. This is what led me to the conclusion that they felt that there was nothing wrong with exploits. They both shifted the blame to the devs.
I posted a link to the rules of conduct that everyone had to accept either in the March or February update. Number 17 stated:
- You will not exploit any bug in Guild Wars 2 and you will not communicate the existence of any such exploitable bug (bugs that grant the user unnatural or unintended benefits) either directly or through public posting, to any other user of Guild Wars 2.
While it is vague, you have to use your best judgment and past examples to interpret what is an exploit.
