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Originally Posted by 'Fursphere',index.php?page=Thread&postID=95376#pos t95376
edit: lol just found out it was in Spanish (my volume was low when looking for it) see if i can get an English one
here is the english one... kept the Spanish so you can see the difference...lol oh well
Since when was killing a mob really really really (really really) really slow an exploit? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by 'Fursphere',index.php?page=Thread&postID=95376#pos t95376
I don't think they'll take action against accounts that used it, the do seem to be more relaxed on dealing with power leveling. And when TDog asked a GM about it, the reply was along the lines of "well, if you're not sure..." but did not come right out and say not to do it.
But yeah, I felt it was a bit dodgy and that it would get patched in some manner.
Just a few points
1. Blizzard recently made changes to make leveling to 60 much easier and faster. This trick only helped to speed things up during that same range.
2. It was HUGE gold sink. I don't know about the rest, but I paid a ton of money to get some alts 15 or so levels.
3. This was a PvE leveling trick; did not effect economy, PvPers or give an advantage over other players
Because of those things, I'm actually surprised this was nerfed. Especially with mob-tagging being widely known and much faster over all 70 levels.
In any event, it was fun while it lasted and, although the publicity may have been the cause of the nerf, I appreciate those that shared this information; that'll teach you :D
I wonder if they nerf the L45 Mage quest in umm, wtf is that zone where Onyxia's lair is?
I did not try it myself (some lame quest chain to Uldaman), but it involves massive amount of level 45 mobs summoned during the event--and mages blizzarding and not completing the quest, only to redo it over and over and over...
I'm with fur on this one, this was an exploit.
I know it's fun to spin it so that it's the proverbial "creative use of game mechanics," but come on - 10 levels in one night?
I talked to a GM before leveling here and got the "it's not currently against our policies, but that may change at any time" song and dance. At least one other person did as well and posted the GM screen shots. I'll give you abuse of game mechanics, but exploit is a little bit much considering. And it's still possible to level at probably 75% of the XP rate, so are you going to call that an exploit too because 7.5 levels in 1 night is too much?Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Fursphere',index.php?page=Thread&postID=95376#pos t95376
IMO, the only reason this got nerfed is that someone wrote a bot that would automate it for you.
Unless you had some other naughty stuff going on (account sharing, botting, etc) I seriously doubt anything will happen to people's characters or accounts. The leveling method that Athene used also got nerfed and I never heard of anyone getting hit, I know people who used it extensively as well.
You do know that only a fraction of the win-traders got gear stripped, and an even tinier fraction had any account action taken? And that was posted as an actionable exploit by Blizzard for months - I personally appealed numerous people and they didn't get banned for it.
Thank you Fur, I almost posted a couple times in this thread something along the lines of what you said. It's already so easy to just quest and level up, it boggles my mind that you all are trying to do stuff like this. Be glad Blizzard allows us to power level with our 70's. I also see it along the lines of instance exploitation, I recently read a blue posting about instance exploiting with the recent wave of Sunwell trash farming where it's being exploited so that the run out, reset, run in will result in the same trash re-appearing and refarmed for epic drops. Blues posted that it was not intended to be farmed in this way and they advised people against doing it. Same thing with this IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Fursphere',index.php?page=Thread&postID=95376#pos t95376
Saying Zolo is an exploit is like saying boxing is illegal. GMs were asked and no direct answers were given and Blizzard simply had to nerf the xp from the skeletons if they wanted to stop it; which they did so this is a moot point anyway. It gave no one a competative advantage; in fact, my toons came out of there EXTREMELY undergeared and gimped. My hunter's pet was a joke, didn't have squat for tamable skills. It simply was a lazy alternative to level; like boosting, imo.
LOL, so you are saying that if Blizzard thought this was an exploit they would change it and they did. So then by your statement Blizzard did think this was an exploit, right? Getting enormous amounts of xp in a short amount of time for nothing more than repair bills is not intended game play otherwise they'd just set up NPC's where we could buy our levels. Same thing with powerlevelling with higher level toons, Blizzard nerfed the xp while grouped with them so that it would not be an extreme advantage. If you want a higher level toon, you have to "do your time" leveling. I'm sorry I don't agree with the gimped statement as it's fairly irrelevant to a boxing group IMO, my 5 shammies wore starting quest armor into their 40's and then they were even wearing some level 30 and 40 stuff well into Outland zones. Mobs almost never touch them, dying in 1 or 2 shots. I can only imagine it being even easier on hunters with pets. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Talamarr',index.php?page=Thread&postID=95486#post 95486