Mythic bosses are the toughest in World of Warcraft. But yesterday that wasn’t the case. Current raid bosses survived only a few seconds on mythic.
The Pre-Patch 12.0 of World of Warcraft Midnight is live and brought some major updates. It includes a “Stat Squish” again, meaning a “value squeeze”. This was supposed to reduce all characters and items to lower values. However, this didn’t work completely. Because some could remain completely overpowered and even defeat mythic raid bosses in under 20 seconds.
What was going on in the raids? Anyone who looked at the leaderboard of the raids couldn’t believe their eyes yesterday. Some mythic raid bosses fell in record time – about 18 seconds. In a boss fight that should actually last several minutes, this is hard to comprehend. The reason for this lies in the failed value squeeze.
Timewalking defies item squish
Why did this happen in 18 seconds? This is because some characters still had an item level of 600 or higher, although the current maximum should be somewhere between 160 and 170.
The culprit was a timewalking vendor. Because they apparently had no idea about the value squeeze and sold items that were still at level 632. These items are about 75x better than items currently should be.
Anyone who equipped such items not only had seemingly infinite health and was practically unbeatable, but the damage of their own abilities was so high that mythic bosses fell within seconds.
Is it still like this? No, Blizzard quickly fixed the error, so the number of characters that could exploit the bug should be limited. The corresponding vendors have since been fixed and now only sell items that correspond to the intended item level.
Was that allowed? No, almost certainly not. This is clearly an exploitation of a bug. For similar offenses, Blizzard has repeatedly imposed penalties in the past and has suspended accounts for at least a while. Anyone who profited from these items – whether in equipment or achievements – can expect that a penalty will follow.
Blizzard is also planning more updates like the Devourer specializations – Death Knights may soon look forward to a Lich specialization.
