Exploits encountered through the Years

Exploits:
-When a player uses an existing game mechanic to his/her advantage outside of or beyond its intended design.

-When a player bypasses existing game mechanics to achieve something to his/her advantage.

-When a player uses a game mechanic that is broken/bugged to his/her advantage.

...(look on trading forums for high end sales) that ectoes(cupcakes?) are used as currency.
LAWLZ

Its the point that the cupcakes shouldn't have been there.

[*]the Doppleganger used to drop rare items everytime you beat him/her in bonus time...many people used this to unlock items fast (before Balthazar faction was implemented. i probably merched many unconditional items during that time)
[*]with some timing you were able to directly go into the Hall of Heroes battle skipping the rounds usually required to be done before it

Did people actually get in trouble for using Signet of Midnight on the guild lord? Or was the latter at least reset to an earlier time? I can't recall. But a guild did lose its place in the GvG tournament because they asked the other team to resign.

i think with the Signet of Midnight that there was a ladder reset.

There was the zoning exploit for the drunk title...drink up zone out and get all mins...rinse repeat.

Hrm what else... the knights armor "mechanic" wear one item of knights and get -3 no matter where you got hit...

does that mean syncing in RA is an exploit?

Lvl 20 in the guild hall...kill a player over and over for exp in a scrimage battle

The ability to open storage anywhere using a packet sender.

The ability to travel anywhere using a packet sender.

The ability to visit the guildhall from pre using a packet sender.

Hack the client to get GM status to kick other people, change their names, and access hidden areas.

Syncjoining the rollerbeetles to get into the top 100 multiple times and steal all the rollerbeetles.

I would say yes. but its impossible to fix. :\

I would say the knights armor one was bug that we didnt know was a bug. XD

There was the Signet of Might exploit- The skill was supposed to buff a target spirit for 10 seconds, and afterwards that spirit was instantly destroyed.
The skill was bugged, and could target anyone, including opponents and their guild lord, meaning that they had 10 seconds to live.

It was exploited by some guilds, and therefore they were banned.

How did people get banned today? or recently or whatever...

I bought 3 full sets of fissure with ecto's @ 300g a pop back then. good times

Not an exploit, but one of the many stupid moves by Anet was removing the Denravi swords (+5 energy). The price spiked at 100k+some ectos.

Then they added +5 en craftable weapons with Factions.

Yeah, makes a lot of sense.

I miss being able to walk outside of a factions city, get a blessing, sac myself, have a hero rez a flesh golem, sac myself again, have another hero rez a flesh golem, then giving both golem owners dual vamp weapons, waiting for them to degen allowing the golem to become hostile=10 kurz/luxon points, then allowing the MoR mesmer with res chant to rez both, rinse and repeat. 10k afking faction every couple hours or so wihout leeching

The exploit where you could disconnect everyone in an instance is very misunderstood.

It required a packet editor, and it used the ability to ping your health to your team. You could only disconnect people in your party. You couldn't become a GM, lol. That is all server side.

They wern't banned, i used that bug in [gg] and got into top 30 none of us got banned.

Ladder was reset but ppl still kept their champ points and the fame from HA.

Farming vampires in Urgoz on HM for +600 gold ID's.

Lacerate expliot in polymock.

Doesn't that place like deserted after Gw:en came out....?

man I missed out on all the good exploits, never got a gh so couldnt do any of that stuff and never had a need to get a run......ah oh well, guess back to the old way of doing things--me and my h/h party slowly killing things.

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Can someone explain this more?