User:TwinFrozr

General

Banned since June 30, 2023, due to PvE farming. As result, primarily due to ArenaNet's handling of the situation, I have moved on after nearly 10 years. It is highly unlikely I will give this game or any other ArenaNet product a chance again.

Progress

Achievements

	Permanent	18,651
	Daily	13,456
	Monthly	1,544
	Total	33,651

Account statistics

	Playtime	12,729 hours
	Value	118,935
	Title of choice	I'm rich, you know.
	Hero of choice	Boaring

Crafting

Progress

Ahrle		500		400
Bærbult		500		500
Dangerous Emo		500		500
Underbarn		500		500
Fireblade Ninja		100

Characters

Sorted by first world completion

	Ahrle World Bosses 100%	Dateable WvW roamer 22%	Pitepaltn Hägglöf Ley-Line Daily 20%	Behold The Beauty Super Ugly Teq Hunter 22%	Tamînî Gf's Fashioneer 32%
	Ninja Tamagotchi Home Plunderer 68%	Bærbult Fractals, Raids 100%	Œ Œ PvP only 0%
	Fireblade Ninja Main character 100%	Anstaltasia Daily Gardeneer 17%	Super Blackbird Home aspirant 5%	Clœk Tenguish leveller 0%	Snuwzie Bag Opener 0%
	Agent Gorgonzola WvW Main 100%	Boaring Aspiring PvE main 13%	Toyota Corona Asuran leveller 9%	Click of Death Charr leveller 4%	Davidsfarm Sylvari leveller 3%
	Underbarn Solo challenges & Crafting 100%	Æboi Wimpy looking Viking 7%
	Smörfluga PvP & Exploration 39%	Œsir Ugliness charracterized 5%
	Dangerous Emo Crafter 31%	Lootmachine Retired Nomad WvWer 19%
	Commodore Sîxtyfour Sylvari WvW'er 12%	Fläskboy Rytlock inspired Charr 2%
	Memée Heated Dreamer 13%	Corolla Extra Charr Dreamer 1%	Cammed Camry Newborn Sylvari 0%

Ranks & collections

Ranks

Mastery rank	333		0
PvP Rank	134	Dragon
WvW Rank	4,477	Mithril Raider	0
Realm Avenger (WvW kills)	63,026	Tier 6
Fractal level	97	Tier 4	0

Bonuses

Account bonuses

	Gold Find	+121%
	Karma Gain	+26%
	XP Gain	+39%
	Magic Find	+320%

Collections

Misc.

	Minis	371 of 787
	Novelties	62 of 188
	Dyes	451 of 618
	Finishers	49 of 70
	Home nodes	36 of 57

Legendaries

Completed

1 The Dreamer Dec 6, 2014
1 Twilight Dec 26, 2014
1 Frenzy Feb 12, 2015
1 Sunrise Aug 13, 2015
1 Eternity Aug 13, 2015
1 Kamohoali'i Kotaki unknown, 2015-16?
1 Incinerator May 20, 2019
1 Incinerator (secondary) June 23, 2019
1 Warbringer Mar 21, 2020
1 The Ascension Feb 3, 2021
1 Kudzu Nov 12, 2021

In Progress

Nothing at the moment (runes and sigils prioritized).

Miscellaneous

Game collection

1 Guild Wars 2: Core, since Sep 12, 2013 (later upgraded to Deluxe)
1 Guild Wars Trilogy, since Nov 14, 2014
1 Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, Ultimate, pre-purchased June 25, 2015
1 Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire, Core, pre-purchased Sep 19, 2017
1 Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons, Ultimate, pre-purchased Oct 6, 2021

Account termination

Background

I spent a decent portion of 2022 recording bots in Istan, especially Mechanists, autoattacking everything and nothing in their way. For several weeks during the summer, I did nothing but this for up to 8 hours a session. Eventually I got sick of it, since no action was taken, and left the game for several months. I came back with three accounts and counter-botted single bots to waste as much loot for them as possible.

At this point, reporting the same players 15-20 times with videos, it was obvious ArenaNet neither cared about the problem nor my time. I sent a ticket asking why others should be allowed to farm but not myself:

It's really getting on my nerves now.

I used to have 2 accounts macro botting just like these. Both got suspended for a week or so. Ever since, I've spent upwards 25% playtime just recording bots (before burning out resulting in 11 months break). We're talking hours upon hours of videoing and editing, hoping that my effort would lead to some sort of equality in this game.

Now I've reported the same two guys for weeks, mainly in-game but also through tickets. I've tried to speak to them and clarify their behaviour is not acceptable. Only difference yet is that a third bot has joined them. I'm risking my own account by spamming tickets obviously forwarded to the round archive, not to mention weekends being wasted for reports that never get cared for. You say investigations take time. What takes all time? The video attached (not to mention all others) isn't even a minute, and it can't be unclear what's happening there. Neither can't take very long to visit the map and see for yourselves.

So why am I not allowed to macro bot when these guys obviously are?

The reply from ArenaNet was "we understand and can't provide any information".

First account action

In early June 2023, a 7 day ban was recieved for the usage of Jitbit Macro Recorder. This macro application ran in the background, used for things like combining stuff in Mystic Forge to get wool out of karma, donating luck to Drooburt, and preventing afk-kicks by activating skill #1 every 15-45 minutes. As a result, Jitbit Macro Recorder was uninstalled and I returned to "manual" work, despite aversion for wearing out precious hardware (and fingers) due to ArenaNet's failure to program their game properly and automatize tasks like these.

Second account action

On June 30, 2023, the second account action was recieved. I had no idea why, as the the macro program that caused the previous account suspension was now uninstalled. I did nothing different to other peaceful farmers in Istan. Yet, it turned out that ArenaNet now had their final decision and did not want me in the game anymore. The reason was "AFK farming". A ticket was sent, describing how much I actually tried to help them to deal with bots, and was grateful that something finally happened. The ticket brought some early stage hope, staying open for 3-4 days. It was however closed without response as well.

Somehow, my middle alt-account with around 9,000 achievement points and 80 million karma was not affected. For unknown reason, the account had disconnected in the three-account multibox only minutes before the other two were terminated. This was likely due to struggling 1 Mbit/s mobile data bandwidth. After mentioning the third account in the support ticket, support had a look at that account, too. Ultimately, no action was taken against that account.

Aftermath

If some things are meant to happen, this probably was. I had studies for my dream job just seven weeks ahead of the account termination. During my GW2 career, I mostly gave up and lost control. However, not this time. I can proudly say that 44 weeks of studying are now finished and employment starts tomorrow.

Being forced out of GW2 as my previously only game, more games have also been collected, as well as extending the arsenal of vintage computers and game consoles. Girlfriend still plays GW2; however not being gifted/buying expansions and losing motivation due to a great portion of solo play, she seems on the verge of leaving, too. Had wishes getting back myself, but with ArenaNet's wholehearted lack of understanding, there just isn't reason to spend a single cent or minute on this game or company anymore.

Future Plans

Spend enough energy to get into a replacement MMO.

[Historical] Working on solo guild hall, currently level 49.

Thanks for the visit! :)