A player from WoW just wanted to quietly farm cloth in the Heilsturz region. What he experienced there shows how broken Blizzard’s reporting system is.
What happened? On Reddit, PhantumJak reports that he stumbled across a tip from another player a while ago, saying that one could farm cloth from the Murlocs in the Heilsturz region of The War Within really well. Of course, he wanted to try that out right away.
Upon arriving, he encountered various other characters who were also farming. No problem, there is enough for everyone! Less than two minutes later, PhantumJak reportedly received an in-game message that he should leave and farm elsewhere, or he would be reported by the entire group of the chat troll.
PhantumJak also responded by submitting a ticket due to harassment in chat. He remained at the farm spot for about 30 more minutes but was constantly concerned that he might actually get banned due to Blizzard’s heavily automated reporting system. It’s not fun to play WoW like this.
Lastly, the affected player gave a tip for a better place to farm cloth: visit the follower dungeon “Dunkelflammenspalt” and take out every enemy until the first boss. Then reset the instance and run it again. This way you will find plenty of cloth and have peace from the competition.
Blizzard should be banned for these bugs:
How does the community react to the experience? Although nothing happened to PhantumJak in this specific situation, the over 100 comments show that there are toxic groups in WoW that deliberately exploit Blizzard’s automated reporting system to take out selected victims or competitors.
- curbstxmped puts it succinctly on Reddit: “They are like this because Blizzard’s crappy reporting system allows them to.”
- shadowsquirt explains on Reddit that he was a victim of the reporting system: “Yep, I am a victim. I immediately outbid people who were bidding against me at the AH, and a week later I was banned. I even have screenshots of them telling others how to report people in a community chat […].”
- Laptican recalls on Reddit: “A good example of this was a stream by Asmongold, where he was banned within 2 minutes just because he wanted to test it.”
- Naice_Rucima praises PhantumJak’s reaction on Reddit: “Good call, always report their messages, and never respond to them.”
Reports about players who exploit the WoW reporting system for their own gain or for fun keep coming up – for example, a few months ago, also on Reddit, or in the official forum of blizzard.com from September 2024, or on YouTube.
Have you received an unjustified ban in WoW or another MMORPG? How did it turn out? Let us know in the comments! By the way, you can now also get banned if you repeatedly leave your dungeon companions out in the rain: Finally! WoW bans players who leave dungeons early
