10-10-2007, 01:58 PM
How's this for some action? Players on the newly-created-for-Burning-Crusade server MokâNathal had an Alliance faction guild that was slowly but surely going through the Scepter of the Sands questline in order to open the gates of Ahn'Qiraj. It's a one-time event per server that's a fun experience to see and participate in. Obtaining the Scepter requires taking part in World of Warcraft's most epic questline by far, with a player unable to even begin undertaking it until they are neutral with the Brood of Nozdormu faction. This requires a hell of a lot of grinding of rep by killing bugs in Silithus on a guild-wide level.
Cleoboltra's still undergoing this quest, by the way, with the only thing in her way from completion being three Fragments of the Nightmare's Corruption. If four brave souls are ever willing to give up a few hours of their time to farm for these with her, she'd be most grateful. Eranikus must be freed!
Anyway, for months, the participant in the guild involved was posting on their forums detailing his progress. He was letting everyone know when they could expect the gong to be rung so they could plan on attending. Ringing the gong is sort of a big deal if you're the first one on a server to do it, or one who rings the gong within 10 hours of the first person - you get a title (Scarab Lord) and a legendary black-colored Ahn'Qiraj bug mount that can be used outside of AQ40. Needless to say, it's a rare honor, and people do some wacky things for such rare honors.
Like convincing their entire guild to transfer to a new server just so a member can "ninja ring" the gong there and get the title/mount.
And that's exactly what a guild called SiNiX did on MokâNathal. They transfered the guild over and rang the gong at 3:00 AM, just as the guild that's been working for months to build rep and get the questline done was nearing completion. They scrambled hard, got the questline finished, and rang the gong themselves in time (before the 10 hours was up) to get credit as well, but the whole server is in an uproar.
It's far easier to transfer a character over to a new server from one where the gates have been opened already and ring the gong than to engage in the questline from scratch. The huge farming effort for rep is circumvented because you can gain the rep in the AQ20 and AQ40 instances instead.
Because SiNiX cheated the system, many of the players on that server never got to see the opening event or battle the Colossi, something I remember doing with mixed results when Stormrage's gates opened. The lag on Stormrage from so many people flooding Silithus crashed the server multiple times, and the Colossi that were killed respawned. Bleh. Players on MokâNathal probably wouldn't run into that issue, and from what I hear they did not. But since the gong was rang at 3:00 AM there, most everyone missed it.
Blizzard should never have allowed a transfer to ring the gong, because this happens a lot from what I understand. Hell, Cleoboltra could finish the questline here and jump servers herself to do the same thing if she were willing to leave Stormrage for months just to get that mount. That's broken, and it screws over servers where people are working for it. Blizzard has bigger fish to fry, true, but I personally wish they'd thought of stuff like this. Many new servers don't even try to go through the quest because they expect some transfer will just pop in and ring it anyway.
Discuss. :)
-Bolty
Cleoboltra's still undergoing this quest, by the way, with the only thing in her way from completion being three Fragments of the Nightmare's Corruption. If four brave souls are ever willing to give up a few hours of their time to farm for these with her, she'd be most grateful. Eranikus must be freed!
Anyway, for months, the participant in the guild involved was posting on their forums detailing his progress. He was letting everyone know when they could expect the gong to be rung so they could plan on attending. Ringing the gong is sort of a big deal if you're the first one on a server to do it, or one who rings the gong within 10 hours of the first person - you get a title (Scarab Lord) and a legendary black-colored Ahn'Qiraj bug mount that can be used outside of AQ40. Needless to say, it's a rare honor, and people do some wacky things for such rare honors.
Like convincing their entire guild to transfer to a new server just so a member can "ninja ring" the gong there and get the title/mount.
And that's exactly what a guild called SiNiX did on MokâNathal. They transfered the guild over and rang the gong at 3:00 AM, just as the guild that's been working for months to build rep and get the questline done was nearing completion. They scrambled hard, got the questline finished, and rang the gong themselves in time (before the 10 hours was up) to get credit as well, but the whole server is in an uproar.
It's far easier to transfer a character over to a new server from one where the gates have been opened already and ring the gong than to engage in the questline from scratch. The huge farming effort for rep is circumvented because you can gain the rep in the AQ20 and AQ40 instances instead.
Because SiNiX cheated the system, many of the players on that server never got to see the opening event or battle the Colossi, something I remember doing with mixed results when Stormrage's gates opened. The lag on Stormrage from so many people flooding Silithus crashed the server multiple times, and the Colossi that were killed respawned. Bleh. Players on MokâNathal probably wouldn't run into that issue, and from what I hear they did not. But since the gong was rang at 3:00 AM there, most everyone missed it.
Blizzard should never have allowed a transfer to ring the gong, because this happens a lot from what I understand. Hell, Cleoboltra could finish the questline here and jump servers herself to do the same thing if she were willing to leave Stormrage for months just to get that mount. That's broken, and it screws over servers where people are working for it. Blizzard has bigger fish to fry, true, but I personally wish they'd thought of stuff like this. Many new servers don't even try to go through the quest because they expect some transfer will just pop in and ring it anyway.
Discuss. :)
-Bolty
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