That TP hack used by the RMT farmers? Yeah, they're using it in HM's now, too...

In a Garuda HM today, and one healer in our group notices the other healer is a Conjurer. Yes, they hadn't picked a job...like, a White Mage. They were doing HM Garuda as a base class, and they barely had 2500 hit points. So, Healer #1 asks Healer #2 what is going on? There was no answer, so we all just decided to go ahead and try anyways.

We get into Phase 2, and we start to notice that Healer #2 (the Conjurer) is taking no damage from anything...yes, that 2500 hit point Conjurer is surviving just fine. But, people start dropping, and that's when I and someone else target the Conjurer to see where they are and monitor how they are still alive.

...We have them targeted, but we can't see them, save for just their name hovering over the grassy area in the middle of the room.

Everyone finally dies, including the Conjurer, to the room-wide AE from both adds being up, and this is when our tank also says he noticed the Conjurer standing right with him with Garuda, kind of half of his body above ground, and never taking damage from slipstream.

So...just a heads up folks. They're not just using the teleport cheat for RMT'ing, they're using it to kill content, too, in ways that allow them to survive when they really shouldn't be able to.

No surprise there, seeing how bots are teleporting all around, those kind of AoE avoiding hacks were just a matter of time.

I wonder if they can teleport to end bosses in dungeons and kill them with the aid of avoidance TP hacking and get tomes of philosophy etc?

Would make for really really quick runs and a viable source of income with the Tomes for crafting items trading.

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Originally Posted by Aphraell

I wonder if they can teleport to end bosses in dungeons and kill them with the aid of avoidance TP hacking and get tomes of philosophy etc?

Would make for really really quick runs and a viable source of income with the Tomes for crafting items trading.

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I would imagine so, since it seems from the videos I've watched, AND from what we just witnessed during the HM Garuda run, they were able to go anywhere they wanted at any time.

@Aphraell

Completely off topic but I can't help but notice your elezen has a distinctive flare, its spicy and tribal, good job!

Now here's the question. Did you friend list him? Did he accept? And will he still be online in 1 week?

That is... crazy.

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Originally Posted by HoroBoro

Now here's the question. Did you friend list him? Did he accept? And will he still be online in 1 week?

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We all sent reports.

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Originally Posted by mmcsky

@Aphraell

Completely off topic but I can't help but notice your elezen has a distinctive flare, its spicy and tribal, good job!

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Ha thanks- Not happy with the eyeshadow though.

They can't teleport into an instance.

But it sounds as if they are doing and cheating instances.

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Originally Posted by Toranja

They can't teleport into an instance.

But it sounds as if they are doing and cheating instances.

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Whats to stop 4 bots usingthe duty finder and mass running a instance. Not only are they getting tomes which are tradable through the craftin components, tehy are clogging up the Duty Finder for legitimate players..


Mmm could explain alot of the issues alot of us are having in using the Duty Finder.

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Originally Posted by Toranja

They can't teleport into an instance.

But it sounds as if they are doing and cheating instances.

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Nobody said anything about teleporting "into" an instance. They're teleporting within the instances.

Funny, I thought of that question several days ago. Looks like they're into it now. Pretty sure they'll be doing AK and teleporting right into the last boss's room. Imagine 4 barely geared lalafel teleporting around smacking the boss avoiding damage like some freaky episode of DBZ. Whack! *Teleport* Whack! over and over.

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Originally Posted by Reokudo

Funny, I thought of that question several days ago. Looks like they're into it now. Pretty sure they'll be doing AK and teleporting right into the last boss's room. Imagine 4 barely geared lalafel teleporting around smacking the boss avoiding damage like some freaky episode of DBZ. Whack! *Teleport* Whack! over and over.

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LOL! Reminds me of the Yoda lightsaber fight scene.

Edit: funny thing is, the conjurer in our HM Garuda was a Lalafel.

Doesn't really surprise me. I saw forums on another site where people were bragging about botting, and they were talking about going into dungeons and such. Some used them to keep from being reported for afk, and said even if they fail 99% of the time, they can just run it enough to get the one they need. :P

Square really needs to nip botters and exploiters in the bud right away. Bad enough with gathering that only effects the economy, but in runs, even worse.

Nothing new unfortunately, certain Linkshells that will remain nameless used the same hacks in 1.0 on Ifrit Extreme.