What is happening in Grahtwood? [video]

imnotanother

https://youtu.be/9d4NbtGv5Y8

Just rubberband grinding for XP? Never understood the fun in this play style.

OutLaw_Nynx

It doesn't look like people are banded just from the animation I saw on one of them but regardless report them all. Might take a bit. I saw crap like this in Auridon. Is ZOS staff on vacation or something? I haven't seen them post like at all lately.

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_KaiSchober @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_GaryA @ZOS_TristanK

WhitePawPrints

Looks like bot or automated play which is a punishable offense.

SantieClaws

Is this perhaps everyone trying to kill 5 things for the festival quest?

The spawns are not as many as the players yes so everyone huddles around the spawn points and goes nuts until they have the right number of the kills.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

imnotanother

I have seen this going down for a few days now. How do players even find these glitches? Then, what networks are they in where they group together for a Sorcerer Massacre?

Preyfar

SantieClaws wrote: »

The spawns are not as many as the players yes so everyone huddles around the spawn points and goes nuts until they have the right number of the kills.

Yeah. That and the wasps were a pretty bad design choice. I just don't think ZOS really did the math with the amount of players they had. Heh.

Qbiken

OutLaw_Nynx wrote: »

It doesn't look like people are banded just from the animation I saw on one of them but regardless report them all. Might take a bit. I saw crap like this in Auridon. Is ZOS staff on vacation or something? I haven't seen them post like at all lately.

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_KaiSchober @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_GaryA @ZOS_TristanK

WhitePawPrints wrote: »

Looks like bot or automated play which is a punishable offense.

I don´t think this video is enough proof of these people using bots, and reporting them without knowing what "crime" they´re doing is just as bad as cheating/exploiting IMO. Proof first, then report, and as I said, this video isn´t enough proof.

imnotanother

SantieClaws wrote: »

Is this perhaps everyone trying to kill 5 things for the festival quest?

The spawns are not as many as the players yes so everyone huddles around the spawn points and goes nuts until they have the right number of the kills.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

That may be the case, it is somewhat near that event quest giver but it just doesn't seem to be the situation.

WhitePawPrints

Qbiken wrote: »

OutLaw_Nynx wrote: »

It doesn't look like people are banded just from the animation I saw on one of them but regardless report them all. Might take a bit. I saw crap like this in Auridon. Is ZOS staff on vacation or something? I haven't seen them post like at all lately.

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_KaiSchober @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_GaryA @ZOS_TristanK

WhitePawPrints wrote: »

Looks like bot or automated play which is a punishable offense.

I don´t think this video is enough proof of these people using bots, and reporting them without knowing what "crime" they´re doing is just as bad as cheating/exploiting IMO. Proof first, then report, and as I said, this video isn´t enough proof.

Report of suspicious behavior would warrant investigation by ZoS and they would determine if an offense has been committed. That is... if they actually investigated.

MattT1988

I've passed this a few times on PS4 the past couple of days. I thought it was a glitch with a random encounter (the battle between the pyromancer and the other mage you occasionally run into randomly) It's like they were killing one of the NPC and he kept immediately respawning. Like they were farming him. Weird.

I ran through there, the moment I hit the middle of the pack I lagged out.

SantieClaws wrote: »

Is this perhaps everyone trying to kill 5 things for the festival quest?

The spawns are not as many as the players yes so everyone huddles around the spawn points and goes nuts until they have the right number of the kills.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

No it's not, they're not near enough to the temple.

Ashtaris

Since all the attacks happen almost simultaneously, I would say almost without a drought it's some kind of automated attack by bots. You should send in a report to ZOS along with a link to the video.

Recremen

SantieClaws wrote: »

Is this perhaps everyone trying to kill 5 things for the festival quest?

The spawns are not as many as the players yes so everyone huddles around the spawn points and goes nuts until they have the right number of the kills.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Nah, these folks are abusing an intantly-respawning NPC pair, looks like one of the "dueling mages" type of encounters. ZOS always ends up fixing the respawn timer for these instantly-respawning problems because it's an XP farm abuse.

starlizard70ub17_ESO

Preyfar wrote: »

SantieClaws wrote: »

The spawns are not as many as the players yes so everyone huddles around the spawn points and goes nuts until they have the right number of the kills.

Yeah. That and the wasps were a pretty bad design choice. I just don't think ZOS really did the math with the amount of players they had. Heh.

It never goes well with 10+ people trying to kill 1 creature. But that video isn't about that. They all seem to be targeting one of those random sorcerer/necromancer encounters. Looks like they're exploiting a glitch.

Kodrac

Bots

Osteos

Preyfar wrote: »

SantieClaws wrote: »

The spawns are not as many as the players yes so everyone huddles around the spawn points and goes nuts until they have the right number of the kills.

Yeah. That and the wasps were a pretty bad design choice. I just don't think ZOS really did the math with the amount of players they had. Heh.

You guys do realize you can kill encroaching wildlife all over grahtwood and the wolves and wasps anywhere on Betnikh right?

ThePaleItalian

Its not a bots... I have been there. Its a spot where you normally find a summoner or 2 mages fighting it out. Its a glitch where they spawn almost instantly.

You can sit and spam your attacks and get loads of XP and drops.

imnotanother

ThePaleItalian wrote: »

Its not a bots... I have been there. Its a spot where you normally find a summoner or 2 mages fighting it out. Its a glitch where they spawn almost instantly.

You can sit and spam your attacks and get loads of XP and drops.

How dull that must be.

umagon

Looks like they are saving Tamriel from Gozer.

Glurin

ThePaleItalian wrote: »

Its not a bots... I have been there. Its a spot where you normally find a summoner or 2 mages fighting it out. Its a glitch where they spawn almost instantly.

You can sit and spam your attacks and get loads of XP and drops.

Their attacks are perfectly synchronized. That's evidence of something hinky. Not proof, mind you. But it is enough to warrant investigation.

ThePaleItalian

imnotanother wrote: »

ThePaleItalian wrote: »

Its not a bots... I have been there. Its a spot where you normally find a summoner or 2 mages fighting it out. Its a glitch where they spawn almost instantly.

You can sit and spam your attacks and get loads of XP and drops.

How dull that must be.

Different boring dull strokes for folks..

Glurin wrote: »

ThePaleItalian wrote: »

Its not a bots... I have been there. Its a spot where you normally find a summoner or 2 mages fighting it out. Its a glitch where they spawn almost instantly.

You can sit and spam your attacks and get loads of XP and drops.

Their attacks are perfectly synchronized. That's evidence of something hinky. Not proof, mind you. But it is enough to warrant investigation.

I agree it should be, I peeked in to see the deal and at least on the PS4 NA server, people were talking and everything about it. So idk.

Dubhliam

Bannable Offense comes to mind first.

Developer Incompetence comes right after.

mb10

Its not bots, lol thats the apparent answer to everything on ESO atm.

This is happening on console as well.

In ESO there are several random events that occur around the world such as the Mages Guild mage who is attempting to summon Daedra that turn on him. You can save him if you want or just walk passed.
The bandits attacking the innocent person its usually 3 on one.

This one is two people dueling that you can interfere with. HOWEVER, there is a bug where they keep respawning nonstop and Ive seen it in different regions in the game.
Each kill gives you about 100xp I believe and they come up every 3 ish seconds so people stay there all day and farm xp.

Its not botting, it might be exploiting but its definitely a bug in the game that ZOS probably know about by now.

WillhelmBlack

Ban inc for naming and shaming.

Didaco

It's happening on PS4 too, as someone above said.
And no, it doesn't require a bot, just equip a resto or lightning destro an make something hold the HA button forever.

The random encounter spawns immediately, so that you can land those staves HA granting you exp for the kill.

Sheezabeast

Synchronized Idiocy. AKA botting. Send your video with as much detail as possible to Zos. That is all we can do as a community.

Kodrac

Didaco wrote: »

It's happening on PS4 too, as someone above said.
And no, it doesn't require a bot, just equip a resto or lightning destro an make something hold the HA button forever.

The random encounter spawns immediately, so that you can land those staves HA granting you exp for the kill.

On four characters at the exact same time. Yeah that's botting. Synchronized keystrokes, people!

VampiricByNature

I think it's proof ZoS needs to seriously think about offering a crown store opportunity for auto-leveling to 50.

danno8

You can probably just hold down the heavy attack button and point in the right direction. When the npc spawns the heavy attack will start automatically.

For PC I imagine just taping down the LMB would do the trick.

This would still be considered an exploit though, and if you are not at the keyboard it would be considered "automated" and bannable.

OutLaw_Nynx

This also seems like a super slow way to grind...0

bareheiny

My suggestion to support was to simply spawn a world boss on on them.

Once dead, the rubber-banders tend to stay dead until their player returns to their console.