Blizzard has banned several raid guilds for defeating the boss Helya using an exploit. Now the guilds are responding.
The latest raid in World of Warcraft, the Trial of Valor, has now been cleared by the major raid guilds in mythic mode as well. However, not everything was done fairly. Some guilds, including Exorsus, From Scratch, and Limit exploited a bug to complete the final boss fight against Helya. Blizzard’s response took a little while but was clear: A temporary ban for all involved players. There has now been an official statement from the Limit guild:
“Before the mythic difficulty was released, we discovered that one particular breath [a boss mechanic of Helya] could be avoided if our tank died while casting the ability. We planned to use this to our advantage in phase 3 of the fight. To our surprise, we found that the boss never used the breath again in phase 3, whereas everything worked as usual in phase 1. Once we realized this, we reported the bug, contacted Watcher on Twitter, and knew that we were not allowed to kill the boss this way.
After we attempted roughly 300+ more times without exploiting this bug (and were very close to the kill), we heard that “From Scratch” and “Exorsus” killed the boss exactly with this bug – seemingly without consequences. We decided that since other guilds had now beaten us using this bug, we would give in and do the same. It took 5 more attempts before we finally killed Helya. Obviously, we deserve the ban; we exploited the breath.”
Cortyn says: I can understand that the race for a first kill is stressful and under pressure from various sides, but that is no justification or excuse for exploiting bugs. Especially this “the others did it too” mentality doesn’t sit well with me. Just because someone else messed up and hasn’t been punished so far, that shouldn’t be a justification for doing something similar. After all, the people from Limit are straightforward.
