What would you do?

[Allestaria]

I would of used it.
Hell wouldn't of had a clue what it was for in the first place. I mean we get random crap in our mail all the time. I don't see anyone knowing what it was for. Hell looks like a crap piece of gear to me. This item goes along with the hoax items in Shat. And that is just how I would of seen it..
Just like the necklace that says you get more items when using it. Its fake and doesn't work. So what would make this piece any different.

But all in all sounds like someone tired to get away with something and got cocky and caught. I wonder how much he paid the gm for that item. We probably will never know.

[Spin]

More than likely, I'd just run around by myself in raid instances and just one shot stuff before opening the ticket and reporting it. It sounds like it would be hella fun to abuse--like run into the AH of a busy city and use it, but m3h, I don't think that this was a random item.

[Caspian]

I actually had a similar thing happen to me (well sort of but not to this extent). It was back in vanilla wow I was 60 and had a green BoP gun from Dire Maul, if I remember correctly it was http://www.wowhead.com/?item=18460 . I was using it to level my Gun skill to 300. I would use it in the world and on Trash Pulls in MC.

After one patch there was a bug with the item and instead of the normal 30 yard range warriors have with shoot, it was 300 yards. But only with this gun. I didn't even realize it until I moused over and read the tool tip that said "Range 300 "one day. I tested it out alone in the world and sure enough if I could see it, I could shoot it. I showed off to a couple of friends. Then I opened a ticket. My friends asked why and I said it is broke, I need to at least report it as a bug. I talked to a GM. They basically said they were aware of the issue and "shh don't tell anyone ". I asked if I could continue to use it and they said I could just don't abuse it "too much".

I was a prot warrior, there wasn't much "abuse" I could do with it. I did shoot people across the map in WSG - for 100 damage. In AB I had LoS issues trying to hit people at the BS from the LM and vice-versa. Back then AV might happen once a month so I never got to take it in there. The only really cool thing I did was pull the entire first ramp in MC - from the bridge in the front to the bridge to Luci and Mags - all from the first bridge. The raid thought it was pretty funny. In reality it might have bought us 2 minutes on the way down. I think I got to do this for maybe two weeks before another patch came out and the bug was fixed.

This was likely just an extra 0 getting added to the item by mistake.

I read the articles and if the Karatechop guy is telling the truth about how they got the item I could see how it might have happened by accident.

I would assume that Account Specialists, when restoring an account, do not drag or click items into the mailbox like we do, or even how a normal GM might. I think that they likely go through log files and database extracts/queries to figure out what you get back. This is all likely text, probably looking at item numbers or at least data with the item number in it. They go through this and create a list. They then would load this text list into some program that generates the in game mail to the player with the items attached. I suppose it would be possible that in the creation of the list an extra Carrige Return was entered in the middle of an item that happened to be #17[something] creating a line with just #17 causing the item to be sent when it went into the program.

If that is how the process works. Thats all pure speculation by me - but not impossible. It could have been on purpose just as easily too.

I also remember Eyonix telling a story about testing Hakkar before ZG was released. Eyonix had been MC'd by Hakkar and suddenly the whole raid was wiped. Apparently when Hakkar had control of him he used his "death to all enemies" ability and wiped the whole raid. It could have been this very item.

If something like this showed up in my mailbox I would test it once. Then open a ticket. I would beg to be allowed to go around one shotting an instance or two. That I didn't want any achievements or loot just to get to have a little fun for myself and maybe a few friends before they took it away from me.

@Starbuck_Jones all Blizzard GMs work onsite for Blizzard. I know they have GM offices at their main HQ and in Austin as well as France for EU.

[Dominian]

well when you think about it a gun with 300 yards range could be extremley OP in AB! :P

You can stay at LM and interrupt flag caps at farm/bs/stables!

A rogue with this tool would be extremley annoying since you would never be able to see him before he restealthed! :P

[SilverSlice]

if i had a death to all mobs ability i would head over to ulduar instance, creata a ticket, enter uldaur, and see if i could get some oppgrades before they reacted to the ticket
i can see some nice achivmeents from that to


silver

[Caspian]

well when you think about it a gun with 300 yards range could be extremley OP in AB! :P

You can stay at LM and interrupt flag caps at farm/bs/stables!

A rogue with this tool would be extremley annoying since you would never be able to see him before he restealthed! :P

I tried that in AB but targets were not in line of sight. I could hit the BS flag from the bridges to the BS but not from the LM. I don't remember if I could go Farm to BS or not. I might not have tried.

A hunter would be unstoppable. You would be dead before you could get in range to do anything.