OctoWow - Forums

Greetings,

There has been many safespotters in Warsong gulch recently, especially tonight. A rogue was able to grab the flag and go on top of the horde side WSG portal near graveyard and held the game hostage for quiet some time while being quiet toxic.

I know there are other spots in WSG you can hide and be completely untouchable, notably the SAW blades on the wall on the horde side and im sure many more.

After talking to a GM it is forbidden to perform jumps using lets say sprint, which on the footage i have clearly is using some speed enhancement ability (sprint). I want to be clear i don't want anyone to get banned over this incident, i just want the game to be fair aka no safespotting so every class can or not get to moving forward.

If this kind of safespotting is allowed even if it is manageable to get there without any speed enhancement, i think octowow staff needs to reconsider the rules because can you imagine being hit by tons of players and slowing spells while trying to execute a perfect mario brothers puzzle jump in a pvp situation where APM is through the roof obviously wont work.

Thank you for reading.

Been in that match when this thing happened. I noticed nickname of a guy doing this thing becuase he was safespotting in games a day before this post happened, first time whole team was looking for him and he was nowhere to be found, apparently there is one safespot on ally side as well.

This problem is even worse than fighting a full geared twink at 50-59 matchmaking (best regards Verstabben), because there are slim chances you can actually slain a twink, safespotter with exploitable place where you have to have sprint and other movement abilities is kinda ass.

Managed to avoid queueing for wsg when that guy is online because it's pointless and a waste of everybody's time, strongly recommend to do the same.

Malal you're the best, but touch some grass, once if funny but twice is fkin annoying

I think there should be special section of rules dedicated to WSG alone since safespotting concerns this BG in 99% of cases. Turtle WoW has unofficially did this when one GM explained which jumps are allowed and which ones are not. This unofficial statement from GM later served as unwritten rule. Octo doesn't seem to have such rules regarding WSG, just this general one.

I'm sure this spot was illegal on Turtle WoW, I don't even know how I can get there. I'm sure this spot is much harder to reach than top of the tunnel one.

Hello, Malal here.

the spot in the picture is reachable without speed or any other spell or enchantment.
also not doing this to "hold hostage" the game, just waiting till our flag is returned and capping immediatly.

and ty for the compliment but touching grass? eww no thats gross.

Tonpa wrote: Mon Oct 05, 2026 12:26 pm Hello, Malal here.

the spot in the picture is reachable without speed or any other spell or enchantment.
also not doing this to "hold hostage" the game, just waiting till our flag is returned and capping immediatly.

and ty for the compliment but touching grass? eww no thats gross.

I think its pretty disingenuous to assume that spot isent safespotting. It's literally impossible to get there in a combat scenario which you know and everyone knows, or else you wouldent be doing it. And yes this is holding the flag hostage, unnecessarily extending the game and wasting everyone's time.

Ollie wrote: Mon Oct 05, 2026 3:45 pm

Tonpa wrote: Mon Oct 05, 2026 12:26 pm Hello, Malal here.

the spot in the picture is reachable without speed or any other spell or enchantment.
also not doing this to "hold hostage" the game, just waiting till our flag is returned and capping immediatly.

and ty for the compliment but touching grass? eww no thats gross.

I think its pretty disingenuous to assume that spot isent safespotting. It's literally impossible to get there in a combat scenario which you know and everyone knows, or else you wouldent be doing it. And yes this is holding the flag hostage, unnecessarily extending the game and wasting everyone's time.

I dont think many would be able to jump there even if not in combat cause people dont know how to.
Getting there is possible to do with current rules, please inform me if these change.
and after talking with a gm i promised him that i would not use that spot in the future regardless.