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    Throughout the history of WoW, top guilds have often been on the edge of clever use of game mechanics to straight up exploits in order to secure their place at the top.
    Today I go over 5 of the biggest ways that top guilds have been banned after going too far.
    This is 5 Times When World First Guilds Went Too Far
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Komentáře • 338

  • @WillEmmo
    @WillEmmo  Před rokem +31

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    • @Gunrunner879
      @Gunrunner879 Před rokem +1

      U play pyrewood??

    • @semiramisubw4864
      @semiramisubw4864 Před rokem

      one of the best Free trials out there for sure. I Play 14 and WoW for years now. Can only recommend.

    • @hardwareissue3588
      @hardwareissue3588 Před rokem +6

      You missed the time that a guy got mistakenly given a GM tabard and used it to one shot all the hardmode bosses in Ulduar. There were permabans handed out for that.
      They got a few world first achievements in their run.

    • @andromidius
      @andromidius Před rokem

      @@hardwareissue3588 That wasn't a world first guild though.

    • @loltunips
      @loltunips Před rokem

      Martin thunder or fury forgotten its name

  • @blackfalcon1324
    @blackfalcon1324 Před rokem +17

    I understand getting banned for stuff like the GM giving someone an item that let them insta clear raids, and pvp exploits, but the fact that blizzard bans people for their inability to test their own game is just shocking.

  • @jessicameadows7258
    @jessicameadows7258 Před rokem +142

    As a member of Overrated who got banned, it took several weeks into TBC and dozens of e-mails to finally get unbanned. Most of the guild never did until wrath, when all of the banned accounts were released.

    • @mcribenthusiast7010
      @mcribenthusiast7010 Před rokem +1

      Respect.

    • @BlackMant1s
      @BlackMant1s Před rokem +5

      Was an honor to raid with you all in Classic Relaunch!!! (Indraxx/Rendaxx/Akujin)

    • @ChumpkinINC
      @ChumpkinINC Před rokem

      lol how did the person in the guild figure out they could remove the floor?

    • @charlesdobronxcharlesdobro4660
      @charlesdobronxcharlesdobro4660 Před rokem +2

      Here before the bald moldy man reacts

    • @jessicameadows7258
      @jessicameadows7258 Před rokem +10

      @@ChumpkinINC Editing game files was nothing new at this point, some people did it in BGs to remove things like fences in WSG. This was just on a way bigger scale.

  • @Signeddudu
    @Signeddudu Před rokem +31

    I would like an in depth video on the history of famous guilds in wow. Great vid!

    • @glenglen6386
      @glenglen6386 Před rokem

      The guilds and on the Nordrassil server had a guildie called Anders. That was Anders Breivik who went on to kill 77 people in Norway.

    • @A1Steaksauce58
      @A1Steaksauce58 Před rokem

      @@glenglen6386 wait what lol? That escalated quickly

  • @anthonybarrington2562
    @anthonybarrington2562 Před rokem +3

    Respect to the saronite bomber. Blizz was just lazy with that one and didn’t want to own up to their own lack of attention to detail

  • @vincentbeton
    @vincentbeton Před rokem +5

    Oh come on, the Lich King was all about abusing Bugs. Him being defeated by one seems so poetic

  • @Max-dv1kq
    @Max-dv1kq Před rokem +3

    oldschool wotlk just is something else, the new experience, the raids started to get really serious and had so much new stuff in them..
    what a time to be alive man

  • @lancer8889
    @lancer8889 Před rokem +60

    Hilarious how we've gone from PERMA banning an entire guild for wanting to skip to the last boss in a raid that wasn't even current, to not even suspending people for buying hundreds of thousands of gold and destroying entire server economies.
    Thanks Blizz :)

    • @abduljabars
      @abduljabars Před rokem +18

      To be fair, changing actual game files in an MMO isn't something any dev can let slide just on principle.
      ....not to mention bots make blizz $$

    • @Nazylexx
      @Nazylexx Před rokem

      Tbh Blizz could win community by adding a way to skip to final Boss but it could required some kind of quest first

    • @crimzpaladinnechces7795
      @crimzpaladinnechces7795 Před rokem

      ARE YOU RETARDED?

    • @Kensber85
      @Kensber85 Před rokem

      People always say this as they are the same issue and they arent lol
      Bug abuse has always been against the rules for all MMOs
      Gold buying does not have the same effect as you altering game files to gain a great advantage

    • @decodiazHD
      @decodiazHD Před rokem

      @@Nazylexx so like modern raids have that require you to kill the boss 4 times before u can skip to it?

  • @Evan-mt7bc
    @Evan-mt7bc Před rokem +5

    So I've heard a ton of versions of the Ensidia ban including that Rogue player was purposely walking towards the platform to throw the bomb nowhere near Arthas.

  • @TastyScotch
    @TastyScotch Před rokem +47

    Back in those days it wasnt bug abusing, or exploit, we called it “Clever use of game mechanics.” 😂

    • @iriswaldenburger2315
      @iriswaldenburger2315 Před rokem +3

      We still call it that now instead of what it actually is: C H E A T I N G

    • @loneeagle85
      @loneeagle85 Před rokem +2

      Ya that's still called cheating bud

    • @steisen
      @steisen Před rokem +2

      Nah mate, its been bug abusing and exploiting since long before WoW was even released ^^ Only actual exploiters ever called it something as cheesy as "Clever use of game mechanics" :D

    • @Shiftry87
      @Shiftry87 Před rokem

      The Hodir fight wasent any of these as Blizzard came out and said they hade intended the buff to be used by Mages but they dident think about limiting it to Freja alone as players started to use it on Hodir instead. Thats not an exploit its just the same as was happening constantly in Vanilla with players bringing world buffs into a raid fight.

    • @iriswaldenburger2315
      @iriswaldenburger2315 Před rokem

      @@Shiftry87 one SHOULD think they learned their lesson after the blood thing in Zul Gurub

  • @TommyBoyB
    @TommyBoyB Před rokem +8

    Apart from the one where they edited game files (thought a skip to legit C'thun would be nice) I think all of these are on blizzard to fix and don't warrant a ban. If anything Blizzard should thank them for pointing out these flaws.

  • @kongen54321
    @kongen54321 Před rokem +11

    Some more info and context to ensidia lich king ban. As you said this was normal mode and there was therefor no "world first" race and it was in no way a difficult fight for them. I was in a guild that was about rank 50 at the time and we killed it pretty easy first week without any exploit. Needless to say ensidia had no incentive to exploit.
    Ensidia said they did not know what was causing the bug (hard to notice that saronite bombs rebuilds the platform), they even wiped intentionally when it happened (not because of the bug, but they wanted to learn the fight better for heroic). After the ban was over and it was found out it was caused by saronite bombs they easily went in and killed it in a 2. raid with different characters and was able to compete in the actual world first race starting the next week allthough with gear removed from the lich king kill. Some people in Ensidia quit after blizzards handling of this and they as a guild never recovered.
    Now you might think to yourself, the fight was obviously bugged and Ensidia should have just not killed it. However every end boss released up until this point was bugged. For example the previous tier (TOGC) hard mode was first killed by Paragon, they chain stunned the adds the entire fight which obviously made it a joke (blizzard somehow forgot to add DR to the mobs). They were not banned for doing this, so why would Ensidia think they would get banned for rebuilt platform (which they couldnt possible know the cause of).

    • @Teng711
      @Teng711 Před rokem +1

      There are some more storys about Paragon and the "clever use of game mechanics". But the guild obviously just wasnt on blizzards radar at that point so they got away with it.

    • @tompatompsson
      @tompatompsson Před rokem +1

      @@Teng711 The world first guild wasn't on their radar?

  • @elilucas3361
    @elilucas3361 Před rokem +49

    love that you're getting sponsors from the likes of ff14, much deserved man!

    • @alchemyty
      @alchemyty Před rokem +3

      I wanted to say something similar! That's huge!! Also hopefully it'll pump up FFXIVs population more (:

    • @DazeJokerz
      @DazeJokerz Před rokem +1

      nice to see willie getting sponsors even if its from dead game

    • @MoonTurky
      @MoonTurky Před rokem +1

      They really will give the sponers to anybody and anything it seems, imagine wanting a degenerate wow content creator to advertise your product lmao. Can the bar be any lower?

    • @Disturbance42
      @Disturbance42 Před rokem

      @@alchemyty XIV's pop is kind of in the toilet. The game is incredibly boring, stale, long overdue for freshness and most of the people who joined during Covid long left.

  • @patrice6373
    @patrice6373 Před rokem +6

    They didn't get banned for it, but the room glitch that Premonition (and later, other guilds) used on Atramedes in Blackwing Descent was pretty flagrant. Due to the tuning of the fight, the disc damage became unmanagable, and the solution discovered was to literally take Atramedes out of the room. Not enough to despawn him, but JUST enough so that the discs wouldn't hit raid members.

  • @italianradio6148
    @italianradio6148 Před rokem +6

    I thought you were gonna talk about the first clear of The Omega Protocol getting the team banned 😅

  • @Dene181
    @Dene181 Před rokem +7

    All of these are good and there are more. 👌
    But the funniest exploit I witnessed and took part in, was the heirloom multistrike sword abuse with rogues back in SoO... attacking so fast and often that the game lagged for the entire raidgroup during any encounters and the dps it did was crazy. We used it in one of our farm weeks, worked amazing and got fixed shortly after that. Some guilds were banned for it, because they did many runs or sellruns with it. But of course this isn't a World First exploit. Sadly I don't know of any videos about it, I didn't record it myself, but I wish I had. It was very funny though.

  • @tanks608
    @tanks608 Před rokem +91

    To this day I still don't think the saronite bombs counted as cheating. They deserved that, it was blizz coding not intentional.

    • @MickeyMolad
      @MickeyMolad Před rokem +33

      I worked on the team that handled that investigation at Blizzard. I can very much assure you they 100% knew what was causing it when they killed the boss.

    • @SymbianBlack
      @SymbianBlack Před rokem +4

      @@MickeyMolad matter of opinion if they “knew”

    • @thegreattaiyou
      @thegreattaiyou Před rokem +16

      I remember being around during the controversy. From what I remember the rogue dps that was using the bombs put out a statement saying that yes, they noticed that the platforms were regenerating, they knew that this was not intended for the fight, and they used it anyways for the kill.
      However, they specifically did not know what was causing the issue, and knew that Blizzard had people actively watching their every attempt.
      The controversy came around the fact that blizzard did not communicate with them at all during all of their attempts. Blizzard never put a pause on attempts to hotfix the broken mechanic. Blizzard, actively watching, allows them to continue to leverage the broken mechanic repeatedly over dozens, of not hundreds of attempts, and only banned them once they succeeded.
      Had there been some communication like "hey, this is what's causing the issue. Stop using sarronite bombs, or we will be forced to take action for exploitation" the outcome could have absolutely been avoided.
      Its slightly gray since Ensidia knew that the mechanic was unintended and used it anyways, while blizzard knew Ensidia was using it and what caused it but refused to communicate with them or the community at large.

    • @DGrin1
      @DGrin1 Před rokem +7

      Rebuilding the platforms allows you to ignore the dps check of killing the 3 valkyrs who snatch people and toss you off the platform. It massively trivializes that part of the fight. Its ABSOLUTELY an exploit. Its also blizzards fault that it worked how it did, not the players. Prior to yogg and lich king exploits being punished the notion of beating a boss as intended didnt exist. There were no raid guides detailing the boss mechanics. Blizzard presented the player with dragons that did stuff and it was your job to make it run out of health before the stuff it did killed you and your friends No guide, no rulebook. No "proper" kill strat

    • @MickeyMolad
      @MickeyMolad Před rokem +8

      @@SymbianBlack not when they openly discuss it during the fight

  • @RavenTheBlackheart
    @RavenTheBlackheart Před rokem

    The fact the sponsor was FF14 and it was a WoW video is just funny to me for some reason XD awesome vid

  • @SvendleBerries
    @SvendleBerries Před rokem +9

    The word "banned" these days seems to have been stretched to also mean "suspended". I hear it a lot now and it rarely actually means someone was banned, in that they can _never_ return. Its like how the word "literally" is often used to mean "figuratively".

    • @keithlemmons_
      @keithlemmons_ Před rokem

      Banned isnt synonymous with permanent you nonce

  • @lousyskater
    @lousyskater Před rokem +1

    We still scouted for Mindflayers back in Vanilla AQ40. They were just not worth dealing with at all lol, especially back then.

  • @CharlotteCroft
    @CharlotteCroft Před rokem +2

    I kinda missed the Martin Fury incident here. Besides to that nice video 💪

  • @Darthyen
    @Darthyen Před rokem

    I remember a guild on my old server were ranked one of the top in the world and they got banned for something to do with Malygose exploit. The guild was Notorious and they (trying to remember so apologize for misremembering and not all the facts) did some exploit where they took all high end ranged DPS and one tank (i think 1) and used multiple blood lust to defeat the boss while he was in the air and before he could go to the next phase where the platform dissolves/breaks apart. Blizz had to change the fight after that to make the boss 0 health without going to the next phase. They only got a small ban but I remember it was the talk of the time especially on Gurubashi where they were.
    I wish I could remember the exact details but it was so long ago.

  • @nestorasbellas6604
    @nestorasbellas6604 Před rokem +2

    it did make a difference cause Ensidia lost the entire first week of heroic progression. You couldn't enter heroic without normal mode achiv. The 72 hour ban happened just before reset and included the reset time, so while the others where able to start heroic Ensidia had only normal mode available.

  • @haukness
    @haukness Před rokem +1

    Surprised that the incident with KarateChop and the Martins Fury wasnt on the list. I guess it was more of an error then a exploit though.

  • @onakaxy
    @onakaxy Před rokem

    Funniest thing about the AQ40 hack: Back until one of the patches in MoP you could glitch through the wall of the platform if you had a big enough mount. Used to run C'thun only runs for the transmog this way

  • @moonlighttv6810
    @moonlighttv6810 Před rokem +2

    A world of warcraft video sponsored by ff14 truly revolutionary.

  • @Humigigiba
    @Humigigiba Před rokem

    Have people forgot the word suspension? Back in the day ban was forever, that grinds my gears

  • @Brandonjones1313
    @Brandonjones1313 Před rokem +2

    Getting banned for deleting files to skip to c’thun is wild considering you can skip to him by mounting up and alt-f4 at 98% of the cast through the wall that has a ledge above it to the right of prophet skerams platform

    • @MoonTurky
      @MoonTurky Před rokem

      Cant ban the bots tho, sorry

  • @tompatompsson
    @tompatompsson Před rokem +1

    It made 0 difference to the WF race. Paragon got LK HC on the 26th of march and it took until april 11th for the second kill by FTH. (plus a buff increase)

  • @derrickbonsell
    @derrickbonsell Před rokem

    That Ulduar "hack" back in Wrath was actually pretty clever strategy.

  • @Tripw0l
    @Tripw0l Před rokem +1

    I wasn't in a big guild but Raiding Rainbow got banned for at least server first Orbituary. We figured out a way to kill FL with the towers up but none of the mechanics would activate during the fight which obviously makes the encounter much easier. IIRC this was part of the reason why Blizzard started using the dialog with NPCs to start the encounter rather than just jumping in a vehicle and taking down towers or not. Our whole raid got banned for a week and we lost our titles and loot (obviously).

  • @LordNecron
    @LordNecron Před rokem

    In AQ40, Blizzard banned people. In Black Temple, before release, Blizzard helped Nihilum practice most of BT on the PTR with an actual Dev in tow. And after Nihilum had their Illidan World First, they hotfixed that Warlocks could Soulstone a person outside of their group (Nihilum had the whole Raid soulstoned for the whole encounter).

  • @evgenykuznetsov721
    @evgenykuznetsov721 Před rokem +1

    You forgot to chat about "Martin Fury Insident" is the best exploit that really happened.

    • @MoonTurky
      @MoonTurky Před rokem

      Ah yes, lets repeat that bullshit as well! Its not like every shitty youtuber and their mother and their mothers mother has talked about the martins fury story atleast twice by now lmaoooo

  • @EdgedShadow
    @EdgedShadow Před rokem +2

    Wasn’t there a guild in original Wrath that somehow got ahold of a GM item that instantly killed anything then ran amok in Ulduar with it?

    • @anttihakkarainen1520
      @anttihakkarainen1520 Před rokem +3

      Martin Fury or thunder? I think it was a shirt or something 😂

    • @Disturbance42
      @Disturbance42 Před rokem +1

      @@anttihakkarainen1520 Martin's Fury yup, a GM test tabard. Instantly kills everything within 50 yds. 200 charges. Accidentally mailed to them from a GM.

  • @Drjebus
    @Drjebus Před rokem

    I remembered hearing about the edited map to skip to C'thun.
    It is *mindblowing* to see footage of it.

  • @Higher-Veda
    @Higher-Veda Před rokem

    Even before the Exodus Yogg exploit, my guild received the same treatment for "exploiting" HM FL out of his room where the mechanics don't happen. That's why he leashes and resets now.

  • @TheBlackWaltz
    @TheBlackWaltz Před rokem

    I was clearing AQ40 just last week with a friend. I accidentally skipped toe cthun. Some mobs had knocked me through the ground and I had to use the unstuck feature, and it placed me right on top of the boss.

  • @krissam7791
    @krissam7791 Před rokem

    Not even an honorable mention to the first guild that got banned for "exploiting"? Conquest, all got banned for exploits, however blizzard refused to tell them *what* exploit they were using.

  • @ThatLampTho
    @ThatLampTho Před rokem +1

    Damn never realized how insane the competition was for top players. Just watching them doesn't show the full story 😅

  • @andrewlee7228
    @andrewlee7228 Před rokem

    Anyone remember the guild Deus Vox? They "cascaded" BWL in order to run it multiple times a reset. Only Razergore locked you to that ID, so they would get Razergore really low and HS out as many people as possible leaving behind only the people necessary to kill it. They would then zone everyone back in and clear the rest of the instance then do it again and again.

  • @biz0unc3
    @biz0unc3 Před rokem +4

    That's rad that FFXIV sponsored you despite your content being the competition.

  • @FilthyGreen
    @FilthyGreen Před rokem +2

    Love learning about WoW history. More please!

  • @renealcerro1320
    @renealcerro1320 Před rokem

    12:41 why does everyone forgets "The Ruby Sanctum"? Arthas wasnt the final boss of the expansion

  • @DiamondTear
    @DiamondTear Před rokem +1

    Fun facts: We (Paragon) only went looking for that LFR exploit after we saw it happening in Method's armory pages. I still think it was the right move, since we considered Method our only competition, so it made sense to want to be on even footing. Even if we were not banned, I doubt we would have been able to get world firsts. The Spine of Deathwing was poorly balanced and required you to have access to specific classes, which I assume the Koreans had (we bought some, eventually).
    In Cata there was one boss where we lost the world first by one minute. Amusingly mmo-champion even got the first report wrong and announced that we won it by one minute. Luckily it was one of the mid-instance bosses in BRM so it didn't matter much.

  • @Frstypwngaming
    @Frstypwngaming Před rokem

    Surprised that all the Gara'Jal the Spiritbinder and Feng the Accursed bug abuses didn't make the list at all.

  • @gapho5198
    @gapho5198 Před rokem +1

    Never thought I'd see the day when CBU3 would advertise through CZcamsrs 🙃🙃🙃

  • @Frstypwngaming
    @Frstypwngaming Před rokem

    You forgot to mention that Paragon got world first Trial of the Grand Crusader 0 deaths.

  • @moersertrupp
    @moersertrupp Před rokem +4

    you forgot the Lord Rhyolith in Firelands during Cataclysm, where the boss did not aggro while being pulled with pets.

  • @yavin99
    @yavin99 Před 2 měsíci

    I was in that guild and used to raid MC with them that did the C'thune cheat although I had quit WoW a couple months before this happened, it was on the pvp server Shadowmoon.

  • @Mornings
    @Mornings Před rokem +1

    "we're banning you because our devs failed" GENIUS!

  • @mojotmn
    @mojotmn Před rokem

    That floor deletion was bis! 🤣

  • @Number69
    @Number69 Před rokem +3

    Some context on ensidia hodir kill... method and inner sanctum had done hardmodes the first week of uld when ensidia did nm and it was a breeze. Blizzard severely buffed it so ensidia felt they had no option but flower power to stay competitive.
    Buzzkill's old blog on nihilum/ensidia is a good read on it all.

  • @TheManadeath
    @TheManadeath Před rokem

    On Archimonde server, during vanilla, my guild (Discordia) would pull Khazzak into "unkown" zone. basicly pulling him up the hill behind his spawn to the flat area deadzone between zones. We never got a ban for it. Basicly it was to prevent alliance from cheesing the death/heal mechanic to prevent us from a kill by sending their naked characters to die. after doing it once or twice I said I wont be doing it again, as I was the lock summoning everyone up there. I also was against people using the mind control orb in BWL from below it, but less so. Also dont think anyone ever got banned for that either.

    • @NarvisISSC
      @NarvisISSC Před rokem

      I remember my entire guild running up there in the between zone land going to Kazzak, we mostly started from the bridge between STV and Duskwood. Was fun :)

  • @gostreiver8036
    @gostreiver8036 Před rokem

    You’re a legend Wille never get tired of your content or your silky smooth voice

  • @Shiftry87
    @Shiftry87 Před rokem

    That Hodir hardmode was not an exploit in anyway as Blizzard themselfs hade come out and said that the buffs was intended to be spell stealable by Mages but they were expecting players to use them on Freja and not Hodir. That is not an exploit but instead a very legit way of outsmarting the devs without changing anything about the Hodir fight itself. They dident break any of Hodirs mechanics they just brought a buff into the fight that the devs hade made available they just dident think about players using the buff on another boss other then Freja. This was constantly happening in Vanilla with world buffs getting used in raids. This was just a side effect they werent excpecting players to use the buff for.
    The LichKing situation is also badly reported here as while the bombs did break the mechanics of the fight. The players hade reported the bug happening in there attempts and there was no way any of the players could possable have known these bombs was the cause of it. Even players from Paragon hade reported it happening in there attempts. Its like he said, alot of top players used these bombs in there standard rotation so it wasent something 1 guy found out just to make the fight easier. The ban itself is arguable but getting the world first removed is ofc understandable as the fight was definatly cleared due to a bug happening. It was only after the world first clear that the issue of the bombs was discovered so the players couldent have known about it before that.

  • @TheMonk3613
    @TheMonk3613 Před rokem +2

    Be advised, ARR first 50 levels of story questing is pretty dry. It gets vastly better after it.

    • @pixwiz1935
      @pixwiz1935 Před rokem +1

      No. No it doesn't. People always push the bar. When I played they said it gets better after ARR, it didn't. Then they said post ARR part is boring, it gets better in Heavensward. It didn't. They said the second part of Heavensward is where it picks up. Guess what?! Still a snooze fest. Then they said Stormblood, then Shadowbringers.

    • @antoineguerrier2965
      @antoineguerrier2965 Před rokem

      I prefer ARR to HW. Couldn't give a rat's ass about Ishgard or the dragons. It all felt like a huge sidequest getting in the way of saving the scions and clearing our names.

    • @Xylarxcode
      @Xylarxcode Před rokem

      @@pixwiz1935 Or perhaps it's worth considering that the game is just not meant for you, because that statement is generally pretty true. That doesn't mean it will be true for everyone, though. Vastly better, as OP here says is a bit of an overstatement, because the story goes up and down in quality quite a bit. In a very broad sense, he's right, though. FF14 does get better (for the most part) the further you get in, provided that the story that starts in ARR grabbed your attention to begin with. If it didn't, then it's very likely the rest of the game won't appeal to you either.
      Personally, I'd say that ARR is a slog that's very slow to get started, post ARR is way too long but once you get to HW it does improve, as the storybeats seem to find their sweet spot. Stormblood feels a bit sidequest-y for a large chunk of it, but ShB brings things right back on track and is the best part of the game, storywise, while Endwalker starts off strong, but then experiences a steep drop that almost gives you whiplash at how sudden it is and never recovers from that again.

    • @Disturbance42
      @Disturbance42 Před rokem

      @@pixwiz1935 Absolutely this.

    • @Disturbance42
      @Disturbance42 Před rokem

      @@Xylarxcode Nah, he's right and your dickriding of a shit game is proof of that.

  • @huntyfla
    @huntyfla Před rokem

    During the tbc pre-patch the warrior ability rampage stacked infinitely so people were having warriors stack the ability and 1 shot bosses, I know people themselves got banned but not sure if entire guilds got ban waved.

  • @Whinzey
    @Whinzey Před rokem +1

    This have nothing to do with world first, but Ulduar back in the day had many bosses that could be bugg abused.
    To be honest, i used em all.
    Flame leviathan could be solo'd without getting raidlocked.
    I farmed that boss for DAYS before it was fixed.
    Kologarnn could be bugged so his ability to pick up players to squeez em to death didnt trigger.
    Thorims gauntlet could be skipped. No first phase to go and poke him to jump down and no adds to deal with in the arena.
    He jumps down after the first dialog.
    Ulduar were one of the best raids ever, but first weeks of release it was packed with things that could be abused, just like ensidia did at hodir and much more!

  • @admrizzo1
    @admrizzo1 Před rokem

    I also remember one guild getting banned in Lich King for having an all Druid in bear form raid... literally unstoppable... lol

    • @Darthyen
      @Darthyen Před rokem

      I remember hearing about that.

  • @TheGuy-pu4vn
    @TheGuy-pu4vn Před rokem +1

    Enjoy your fact finding and history videos. Keep em up!

  • @nippon19
    @nippon19 Před rokem

    At one moment, WoD heirloom trinket proc'ed full force in timewalker, imagine proc for 150-170k dmg on a 500k hp boss :P

  • @countfrackula6707
    @countfrackula6707 Před rokem

    Both of those Yogg glitches were legitimate world firsts and should have been treated as such.
    The first because they used it once and reported it immediately - legitimate.
    The second because they used a known mechanic that Blizz hadn't fixed in multiple expansions - legitimate.
    Ensidia's kill of LK was also legitimate.

  • @rachelheav857
    @rachelheav857 Před rokem

    just before the chase scene in halls of reflection instance the chase glitched and didnt happen, for us... so we dropped the lich king in HOR before anyone dropping him in ICC

  • @Bradman1978
    @Bradman1978 Před rokem +13

    My opinion finding a bug and using it is a legit way of playing. As long as you are not changing the game, it's the devs fault and these bans were just Blizzard angry because people showed that their game was bugged.

    • @mitchtheronin1469
      @mitchtheronin1469 Před rokem +1

      you sound like a lawyer

    • @justinschuster666
      @justinschuster666 Před rokem +1

      On one hand, I get Blizzard's point of view that they want to discourage people hunting for unintended ways of progging a boss as that's not fun community progression. On the other hand, they can't reasonably expect the vast majority of players to see an opportunity for solving a particular mechanic more easily and expect them not to do it. The majority of these bans resulted from using mechanics that Blizzard themselves put in the game but were just applied in a way different than they expected, and they reacted by banning the guilds. That's not the way to go imo

    • @Disturbance42
      @Disturbance42 Před rokem

      @@justinschuster666 Well nobody gives a shit what you think. They developed the game, they get the final say in what happens and it happened.

    • @justinschuster666
      @justinschuster666 Před rokem

      @@Disturbance42 lmao so cringe

  • @LamborghiniDiabloSVPursuit

    I will never get the cases why Blizzard ropes the consequences due to their lack of bug testing on the players.
    Its one thing to edit the in-game files and force the game to play in a way that it was never designed to. Its another to use in-game resources to make a fight easier, which they signed off on as builds do not get published without being approved by the developers.
    If its jank, they approved of said jank, whether intentionally or not.

  • @charlesdaugherty321
    @charlesdaugherty321 Před rokem +1

    Exploits are playing to win.
    Banning anyone for using an exploit is like punishing an office worker for finishing their work load too fast.

  • @ramones1314
    @ramones1314 Před rokem +1

    didnt Stars get banned in WoD cuz they found an exploit with Hanz and Franz where a rogue would follow the boss to the upper platform and then mass ress the raid and they could do the fight from up there, avoiding every mechanic? or am i just having a fever dream

  • @DragonsController8
    @DragonsController8 Před rokem

    The ensidia ban wasn’t ensidia’s fault. Saronite bombs are part of the DPS rotation for rogues in wrath. And where are rogues located? Up the bosses arse! So I believe that was Blizzard wanting to pass it as bug abuse rather than admitting they messed up an end expansion raid again (looking at you Kiljaden)

  • @evrfreez
    @evrfreez Před rokem

    I'm just blown away to see an FFXIV sponsorship in a WoW video 😄 Maybe this isn't the worst timeline after all~

    • @nonye0
      @nonye0 Před rokem

      you are just in a parallel universe

  • @cachulistar
    @cachulistar Před rokem

    An FF XIV sponsor? 😮 proud of you

  • @evellior
    @evellior Před rokem

    Liquid should 100% have complained about the suspension. It's fair to take the achievements and rewards off them, but it was Blizzards fault that the tactic seemed to be acceptable (like, how hard is it to make one blue post saying "we know of the bug, anyone who exploits it will be punished"?) so they should have just removed the ill-gained progression from those who reported it and tried fairly.

  • @pokedadsam9041
    @pokedadsam9041 Před rokem

    Wasnt this the exploit asmon talked about that Krupp was in? They stood outside the chamber and agreed them to the door

  • @suronia1
    @suronia1 Před rokem

    I think using the walls to your advantage isn't an exploit. If it's ok to kite enemies by such means in classic, it's ok to have enemies stop to give you a extra second to live

  • @wobz1055
    @wobz1055 Před rokem

    Antramades in BWL - ppl just pulled him into the corridor before the boss room and ignored all the mechanics and blasted him 😂

  • @funland05
    @funland05 Před rokem

    Limit was banned for standing on a totem on the third boss in mogu shan vaults early on in there career to be the best guild in the world!

  • @narkwttv
    @narkwttv Před rokem

    ffxiv ad for a wow vid, love that

  • @ChairmanMeow1
    @ChairmanMeow1 Před rokem +2

    I still think the saronite bomb ban was unfair. Two reasons. 1) they were making progress on the fight and felt confidant they'd down it soon. they werent beating their head against the wall like EJ with C'Thun or something. 2) there was no way for them to even know what was causing the platform to reform since the rogues always were using bombs on bosses. there wasnt a variable that changed for them to even pick up on. And actually a 3rd reason - they had a good history. no history of exploiting or anything like that. they deserved the benefit of the doubt being an OG guild.

  • @tomsawyer7230
    @tomsawyer7230 Před rokem

    It was several top guilds banned for the lfr bug, not just paragon

  • @briangervais5962
    @briangervais5962 Před rokem +2

    Kiting a pull with the classic "fence jump" pathing bug is the essence of classic, but they tried to get rid of it as time went on, to the point they banned everyone 72H because one person did this for 6 seconds during the most important fight possible.

  • @Nifyrlas
    @Nifyrlas Před rokem

    lol that spellsteal hodir worked in wotlk classic aswell until someone leaked it from warcraftlogs

  • @thekoven666
    @thekoven666 Před rokem

    A suspension and a ban are two different things btw

  • @MrTomme642
    @MrTomme642 Před rokem

    wow, perma banning all guild members for the aq bug abuse really seems to hard for me

  • @ravingredpanda
    @ravingredpanda Před rokem +2

    I remember our wotlk raiding guild getting server first on heroic twin val'kyr 25 by accidentally using an exploit that interrupts the cast of the boss heal a split of a second before their shield is activated. I don't think blizz found out. :' )

    • @courtneym75
      @courtneym75 Před rokem +1

      I think they key word there is "accidentally". They tend to ban guilds who intentionally use bugs or exploits that are clearly not meant to be part of the game in order to gain an advantage. From the back end, it's relatively obvious when a group is doing something without realizing it's an exploit and when they do it intentionally.

  • @Harvles93
    @Harvles93 Před rokem

    "Yogg HM hardest raid they had to offer" - clearly never done 25m Mimi HM kekw

  • @SuperProalpha
    @SuperProalpha Před rokem +1

    As a member of Overrated, I hate Nerfie and that dumb woman he fell in love with. No one needed to know about replacing the sand texture with the tentacle.

    • @Jaerb4
      @Jaerb4 Před rokem

      We found out later it had nothing to do with her. A FoH member told us it was Furor himself that had the GMs watch us. I guess he was upset that we made them the #2 Horde guild on the server and then poached a few players.

  • @matthewbolton4289
    @matthewbolton4289 Před rokem

    How did the vaelastraz mind control to knock off the burning adrenalin debuff off not make this liat

  • @poro9084
    @poro9084 Před rokem

    naturally we cannot forget, bcs of sponsor - the newest ultimate zoom out addon

  • @dosbilliam
    @dosbilliam Před rokem +1

    This is the first ad I've actually listened to in a while...mostly since it's not an extremely exploitative mobile game. :P

  • @aidi4886
    @aidi4886 Před rokem +1

    If game has bugs. Lets punish players…

  • @CCM1199
    @CCM1199 Před rokem

    What is the website that youre posting in the videos that has all the raid clear and dates?

  • @infrasound
    @infrasound Před rokem

    When you kill the lichen king in BFA? you get an achievement Clever use of mechanical explosives lol....

  • @iriswaldenburger2315
    @iriswaldenburger2315 Před rokem

    I THINK the only reason blizzard decided to do something about the Helya exploit is BECAUSE Limit was fair, REPORTED the bug (naturally Blizzard didn’t fix it), they didn’t use it and THEN other guilds did without any consequences.

  • @atk1152
    @atk1152 Před rokem

    Exploiting a bug, report to the game devs to fix it. instead of fixing the bugs, they choose to banned the player for reported it, 200IQ move there game dev

  • @Cuthawolf
    @Cuthawolf Před rokem

    Were these all Horde bans? Wild.

    • @gabrielreed8039
      @gabrielreed8039 Před rokem

      Most, if not all, top competitive raiding guilds are Horde (and have been for a very long time) because of how imbalanced the racial abilities are.

  • @feraldruidsftw01
    @feraldruidsftw01 Před rokem

    The guild that used a bug then reported it and got shit taken away is partially a reason people don't report shit. if you fuck up and people use it an report it after it is on you. I remember I was buying something and the price was off. when I mentioned it to the manager they fixed the price and charged me the full price. last time I will ever tell a place if their pricing system is messed up in a customers favor.

  • @PvP-ls7yo
    @PvP-ls7yo Před rokem

    PLEASE do a video on the Serenity Now, funeral crash bans. Lol

  • @phanincoporate
    @phanincoporate Před rokem

    Blizzard .... ban people for for their own mistakes. lolz You guys remember Warcraft 3 reforged?

  • @0d0gn
    @0d0gn Před rokem

    I never played world of warcraft but i am part of the sweaty tryhard community. We have a saying, if you arent cheating you arent trying. Every top guild of every game is cheating one way or another. In new world most of us just bought gold then exploited death reroll looting mechanics with alts to ensure we had the best recipe early one.

  • @Da_Bashi
    @Da_Bashi Před 8 měsíci

    Still dont understand ensidias ban on the lich king.
    They used the bombs on every single boss, as it was a normal part of the damage rotation and also it was on their first kill of the lich king.
    They didnt even know it was a bug caused by the bombs and just thought it was a normal encounter.
    Also its a bug created by blizzard and why should they not use bombs just because blizzard fucked up?

  • @Jaerb4
    @Jaerb4 Před rokem

    Overrated member here. We deserved the ban, etc. etc. What isn't well known is that Furor is apparently the one who had GMs checking in on us. We migrated to FoH's server (BDF) and quickly made them #2 behind us, and then poached a few players including tanks during 4H attempts. That's at least according to a FoH member later on.