Alzarath

I don't know if someone pointed this out already, but hunter traps have been stealth nerfed. If you drop a trap while one is active, the first trap disappears. Goodbye chain trapping. I didn't check out snake traps yet, but it holds true for frost and freeze traps.

Edit: Can someone else also confirm this? Hoping against hope that its some crazy bug that happened before the servers went offline.

 

Kazanir

Whoops. Thanks.

I was getting the same behavior with Prayer of Mending (as the only holy priest in the raid.)

'War' is too small a word for what I'm fighting. Like a candle in front of the whole burning Sun. I told you. This is bigger than a war. Now, I am not going to die today. I have other projects, and other options.

You can come with me. I can protect you.

 

Zugstab

GG Shamans. 48 hour and longer suspensions along with confiscation of illigit T6 and void crystals and gold have all been reported. I guess Blizzard was real annoyed at people farming the T6 vendor for void crystals + free loot.

 

Amera

It's on the previous page.

 

Avair

I'm assuming that using the Shift-click on your spellbook would enter the correct name of the spell in the macro which minimizes to some extent the need to worry too much about what they get renamed to.

There is no reasonable case that anybody shouldn't have realized that getting the entire set and DE'ing it multiple times wouldn't be considered an exploit, hence likely to get you in trouble. Infinite loot cycles (aka dupeing) are the first thing MMO developers come down on. If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is. Some evidence to back up that Bliz is really doing that would be useful though.

 

tangent

Taron trash was having weird issues for us last night. On the second pull (two orcs who start out riding dogs then dismount) we killed an orc and dog, then the other dog despawned and we killed the last orc. A minute later one orc riding a dog came down the stairs. We tried to kill the dog but he despawned at about 80% killed the orc and again a minute later he was walking down the stairs.
After a botched attempt to just run up the stairs and kill the pack past him we gave up and went to bloodboil. The odd thing was the three packs at the top of the stairs that we aggroed also seemed to despawn. When I went back to check for loot they were slowly respawning.

 

Kazanir

Give me a real source on this and I'll put it on the front page.

'War' is too small a word for what I'm fighting. Like a candle in front of the whole burning Sun. I told you. This is bigger than a war. Now, I am not going to die today. I have other projects, and other options.

You can come with me. I can protect you.

 

• Falk

This may be related - I noticed inability to overwrite old rips with new double-trinketed rips which would have definitely ticked for higher. "A more powerful spell is already active" was the message I got, too.

 

Qbert

In heroic mech, only the player with the key to the 'chest' got a heroic badge. This might be caused by the remaining items being awarded by rolls before the keyholder loots the badge making it seem 'empty'. Might work correctly if everyone passes on the blue/etc. items then loots their badges before looting the remnants however I have only one experience with it so far and the 'chest' became unlootable after the keyholder looted his badge.

 

Kirth

I just did some digging and couldn't find anything in relation to this, even the blue post saying that they know about the exploit and not to do it is gone. I guess blizz does not enjoy any reference to major mistakes.

 

Malan

Whoah, just for having the gear? Or for trying to vendor it?

Shitting up every single thread on EJ since '06

 

• Snowy

This is what I suspect, and what was what happened with the chest in Heroic Ramparts. I'd recommend everyone pass on the rolls, get your badges, then loot the regular item.

More importantly: Anyone have any issues with the Chess chest in Karazhan?

Paladin: Pyla
Mage: Pylah

 

◊ Gwaihir

That must have been for someone that was vendoring it/DE it repeatedly, I'll freely admit I bought a set to run around in, but got nothing more than a warning on my account, same as if I had cursed someone out in trade.

 

Zugstab

Account Name: XXXXXXXXXX

Realm: Tichondirus

Character Name: XXXXShaman

Removed: Void Crystal x19,
245g from XXXXShaman
425g from XXXXShamanBankAlt

A user of the above account has recently been involved in actions deemed inappropriate for the World of Warcraft by the In-Game Support staff of Blizzard Entertainment. This decision was made after a thorough investigation of the situation as a whole.

When a harassment report is made, all players involved in the incident are subject to review, which may result in account penalties. Though we are unable to discuss the outcomes of our investigations due to privacy concerns, rest assured that this incident has been looked into very thoroughly, and the appropriate actions have been taken on all involved accounts.

Any disputes or questions concerning the following account action can only be addressed by Account Administration. To learn more about how Account Administration is able to assist you, please visit us at Blizzard Technical Support.

================================================== =============

Account Action: 48 Hour suspension

Offense: Bug Exploitation

Details: Above player was found to have exploited the game in order to obtain multiple Tier 6 Shaman items

================================================== =============

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We understand that these policies may seem harsh, but they are in place to ensure that every player is able to fully enjoy their travels in the World of Warcraft. Thank you in advance for respecting our position.


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Karmen

Same thing with one of our shamans, he just got a warning on his account. He didn't repeatedly buy and DE it though.

Late Night Raiding www.skeletoncrew.org

 

Jasum

Mystical Skyfire Diamond: In 2.2 the duration of the focus buff was increased to 10 seconds.
When they added the internal cooldown to the gem in 2.3 they decreased the buff duration to 5 second. This is not documented and there was a blue post about it being a bug. But it's only 5 seconds at live servers now, making it even more useless for am spam

 

Kazanir

Okay. I hardly consider the 48-hour suspension for exploiting nearly 1k gold noteworthy.

This makes a lot more sense for someone who just bought some stuff and didn't try to use it for the ever-popular shenanigans.

I have updated the OP.

'War' is too small a word for what I'm fighting. Like a candle in front of the whole burning Sun. I told you. This is bigger than a war. Now, I am not going to die today. I have other projects, and other options.

You can come with me. I can protect you.

 

Lookit

I mentioned this in the PvP forum, but I seem to have been awarded the ~400 bonus honor from the BG daily twice. I ran one AB, got 160 for winning, turned in my quest and had an estimate of ~600 for the day. Without doing any more PvP, I checked an hour or so later and had ~1000 honor for the day. Anyone else experience this?

Edit: I just went home for lunch and checked, and my total honor for yesterday is listed as ~600. It seems the ~1000 from yesterday was simply a display issue.

 

Kazanir

The way he posted originally implied that lots of people who had bought the stuff fairly innocuously were getting 48-hour suspensions and that it was on the low end of penalties received.

It turns out that he had gotten such a 48-hour suspension for clear exploitation (1k gold in profits, sweet!) of the bug while others are receiving warnings, which is more in line with what one might expect. Slap on the wrist for misbehavior and suspensions for the bad boys seems more reasonable than what he implied with his first post.

'War' is too small a word for what I'm fighting. Like a candle in front of the whole burning Sun. I told you. This is bigger than a war. Now, I am not going to die today. I have other projects, and other options.

You can come with me. I can protect you.

 

Illundai

Not sure if it should be posted here, but yeah Season 3 delayed for a week.

Yes, Death Knight tanks are/were too good in 3.0.x. Having 38k HP, 76.81% Avoidance (Miss incl.) and not gimping your threat in the first tier of gear is broken. (Yes this is clickable)

 

Design1stCode2nd

Perhaps just missed it but a smoke like trail comming from my Netherdrake when moving.

 

• constantius

This happened to us, and also, when we went to clear Kara for badges post-BT last night, Netherspite nuked us while we were setting up for Prince ... 20 minutes later. No idea why. No-one took damage, just random Netherbreaths flying everywhere.

As far as the issues with badges: *every* chest that drops badges is broken. They didn't tag the badges as being loot, so as soon as the "real" loot is taken from the chest (i.e. the /greed roll completes and someone gets the items), the chest despawns, regardless of whether or not you've taken your badge(s) yet.

This has been confirmed for Chess (in Kara; 3/10 people looted before it despawned), Ramparts (guildies ran it yesterday), and Mech (gatekeeper keys). Just run on FFA and take all badges before distributing loot until Blizzard fixes this clear oversight.

Romulo & Julianne has been confirmed by a GM to be bugged, and are not dropping badges at all. This is unintentional, and an Item Specialist will restore your missing 2 badges if you care enough to go through the process.

Beast boss in Karazhan does *not* drop badges, so the total number for a full clear is only 22, not 23.

Attuman - 1
Moroes - 2
Maiden - 2
Opera - 2
Nightbane - 2
Curator - 2
Illhoof - 2
Aran - 2
Chess - 2
Netherspite - 2
Prince - 3

2.5 hours, 70g, and 22 badges. It was a nice way to end the night. Too bad they didn't make a couple of nethers drop too (Nightbane and Prince would have been good, and firmly planted heroics in "yesterday's news").

 

nife

Hunter's shot removes the WSG Flag carring buff according to a hunter I just talked to.

 

clavarnway

I'm not really surprised, as the PTR is for people to test this kind of stuff, and who seriously wants to kill the animal boss, ever?

http://sigs.guildlaunch.net/sig.php/1424974uXyta.png

 

◊ Sarutobi

Did this change actually make it onto the live realms? I could have sworn I still saw 2/8/24 when I put auctions up this morning. Or is that just a graphical bug and the auctions are actually 12/24/48?