05-14-2008, 03:27 AM
Those alleged win traders probably shouldn't use account sharing as an excuse. Blizzard tends to punish that harder.
One of our rogues got the Warglaive MH from Illidan then had his account banned a week later. He had given his account details to a friend a while back, and the friend have moved to Taiwan. Unknown to our rogue (who plays on an Oceanic server), his friend was levelling up a character on a US server. Account got permanently banned. Fortunately we did have another Warglaive MH drop a couple of weeks later.
In other developments, M'uru got a nerf in the patch, with the "Negative Energy" attack no longer causing spell pushback.
In regards to Gnollguy's comments about "nerfing of encounters" - I think almost every boss encounter nerf you could name was aimed at balancing the encounter to be more in line with its intended difficulty in progression. Magtheridon, Kael'Thas and Vashj are all examples of encounters where the initial difficulty was completely out of line with everything before them (and many encounters after). Vashj 1.0 (where she would randomly mind control 5 people for something like a minute during phase 3) was apparently a nightmare, and I think Method might have been the only guild to kill her more than once before the mind control was removed. In other words I don't think Blizzard would nerf encounters if they felt they were tuned appropriately to their intended level of difficulty in the first place.
The removal of attunements is a slightly different beast, and it seems like we've reached the point where guilds only halfway through SSC and TK are killing Rage Winterchill.
One of our rogues got the Warglaive MH from Illidan then had his account banned a week later. He had given his account details to a friend a while back, and the friend have moved to Taiwan. Unknown to our rogue (who plays on an Oceanic server), his friend was levelling up a character on a US server. Account got permanently banned. Fortunately we did have another Warglaive MH drop a couple of weeks later.
In other developments, M'uru got a nerf in the patch, with the "Negative Energy" attack no longer causing spell pushback.
In regards to Gnollguy's comments about "nerfing of encounters" - I think almost every boss encounter nerf you could name was aimed at balancing the encounter to be more in line with its intended difficulty in progression. Magtheridon, Kael'Thas and Vashj are all examples of encounters where the initial difficulty was completely out of line with everything before them (and many encounters after). Vashj 1.0 (where she would randomly mind control 5 people for something like a minute during phase 3) was apparently a nightmare, and I think Method might have been the only guild to kill her more than once before the mind control was removed. In other words I don't think Blizzard would nerf encounters if they felt they were tuned appropriately to their intended level of difficulty in the first place.
The removal of attunements is a slightly different beast, and it seems like we've reached the point where guilds only halfway through SSC and TK are killing Rage Winterchill.