In a week, the mythical version of the Raid Palace of the Nerub’ar from WoW: The War Within will open its gates, and thus begins the “World First Race” for the fastest boss kills. Now Blizzard has banned several players who are currently preparing for the community competition.
Who was banned and why? Reports are circulating on various platforms and websites that several players from World of Warcraft have been banned. Here’s what is known:
- Players who allegedly exploited a method to gain an advantage in farming reputation with the faction “The Severed Threads” were banned – this was explained by a Blizzard employee in the private Discord channel for the upcoming “Race to World First” (via icy-veins.com) to the affected professional guilds.
- All reputation progress and rewards gained through the exploit will be removed, according to Blizzard.
- Most players caught by Blizzard received a four-day ban (via X). There are rumors that some were even banned for over ten days.
- As already indicated, many professional players from guilds currently preparing for the “Race to World First” are also affected. Method is said to have been hit (via Reddit). The same goes for various players from Echo (via X).
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What do the bans mean for the World First Race? With the ID change on September 10th and 11th, 2024, the warm-up in the Palace of the Nerub’ar begins. The raid instance will only open this week on normal and heroic difficulty (plus Wing 1 of LFR).
The actual first World First Race of the WoW expansion The War Within will kick off only with next week’s ID change, when the mythic difficulty opens and the first boss kills actually have significance.
Nevertheless, the bans are bitter for the professional guilds. They lose important days for preparation (for instance, to optimally gear as many characters as possible in the normal and heroic version of the Palace of the Nerub’ar for Mythic) AND the reputation progress and the associated rewards that they allegedly cheated through an exploit.
Ultimately, this could indeed impact the “Race to World First” because guilds may have to adjust their rosters or start the race with an equipment deficit. Which guild do you think will win the race? Let us know in the comments! You can find more about the schedule for the first season of the current expansion here: Roadmap for Season 1, Raids, and PvP – the key dates from WoW: The War Within.
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