MMR exploit - Over the top

[zenga]

Fixed.

Only half apparently, you lose team rating now but still gain mmr. So still worth it to deliberately lose and then reset a team and go for real with an artificially high mmr.

[Shodokan]

Only half apparently, you lose team rating now but still gain mmr. So still worth it to deliberately lose and then reset a team and go for real with an artificially high mmr.

Thats how it was before, you always lost TR, and you are matched by MMR so it didn't matter anyway. Winning/losing win trading is how people got so high to begin with and when you lose 10 points and gain 96 (tr up to your mmr) it didn't matter. It just so happens that you didn't lose MMR when you quit during the starting area (got d/c'd via macro) which gave the opposing team MMR and yours stayed the same so you could continue to feed them or get fed to pin-pong your mmr up since you never lost any and only TR... after a certain MMR you'd gain 96 TR per win no matter what.

Right now people are being suspended and teams disbanded according to blizzard (blue post)

The only thing they keep is their mmr... so idiots who have 3300 mmr or w/e will get 2500 50/50 win loss or 2300 25/75 lmfao. It will fuck the ladder anyway which is another reason i'm done with wow pvp.

[remanz]

wait, what did they do to "fix" it ? just now.

In other news, i see tolbara and wintergrasp (obviously my favorite, and many other boxers') are back for level 90s.

PvP
The growing conflict between the Horde and the Alliance has spilled across the face of Azeroth: level 90 players can now queue for Wintergrasp and Tol Barad via the PvP tab to battle one another in these epic conflicts.
Arena matches now have a 25 minute time limit (was 45 minutes).
Rated Battlegrounds now share the same spell restrictions as Arenas.

[ebony]

UPDATE: November 14

Providing an environment where players can compete in the spirit of fair play is extremely important to us, particularly in rated Player versus Player combat. As part of that commitment we regularly monitor gameplay, and have discovered an issue where some Arena teams have exploited the queuing system to obtain high team ratings, “dodge” unfavorable team compositions, and engage in win trading.

These, and all, exploitative activities are absolutely prohibited. We will investigate the situation carefully, and players that have been found to have participated in exploitation will be subject to the appropriate actions against their World of Warcraft accounts and characters, including:

• Arena team deletion
• Character MMR reset to 1500
• All Conquest gear removed
• Conquest earned tally reset, as well as all Honor and Conquest points removed.
• All Arena achievements earned since the beginning of Mists of Pandaria removed.
• 3 day suspension

Please note that as of this posting, these penalties have not yet been applied. In the meantime, we have implemented a hotfix to resolve any remaining issues with the queue system to prevent this behavior in the future. Our first priority has been addressing the exploit and dealing with the players that took advantage of it. After that’s resolved, we'll assess the ladder and determine whether it's the right course, or even feasible, to make further adjustments.

there hitting them hard though if u read on the web a lot the cheaters just going to say they got "hacked"

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/7118303086

[Shodokan]

Awesome news that they are resetting their mmr!

[ebony]

wait, what did they do to "fix" it ? just now.

In other news, i see tolbara and wintergrasp (obviously my favorite, and many other boxers') are back for level 90s.

PvP
The growing conflict between the Horde and the Alliance has spilled across the face of Azeroth: level 90 players can now queue for Wintergrasp and Tol Barad via the PvP tab to battle one another in these epic conflicts.
Arena matches now have a 25 minute time limit (was 45 minutes).
Rated Battlegrounds now share the same spell restrictions as Arenas.

i checked out the new WG/Tol and u get 300 honor for the two weekly quests (wg is x4 75 honor) and tol is one quest at 300 honor so that is a extra 600 honor a week for doing both

all npc's been buffed.
atm its not giving honor for winning/losing. (on the ptr is is CRZ? not sure if that go live or not)


and you can buy mote of Harmony for honor as well 400 each.

[Fat Tire]

there hitting them hard though if u read on the web a lot the cheaters just going to say they got "hacked"

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/7118303086

Yea just log in under a foreign country vpn and then give blizz a call saying you were hacked. good to go.

Blizz doesnt say that all exploiters will recieve the same punishment either, it only says that they could recieve this or that.

This change or punishment doesnt really do anything. There are alot of players who queued into these exploit teams and gained alot of mmr 3k+ in some cases that wont be punished because they did nothing wrong or will fall under the radar.

[Lyonheart]

wait, what did they do to "fix" it ? just now.

In other news, i see tolbara and wintergrasp (obviously my favorite, and many other boxers') are back for level 90s.

PvP
The growing conflict between the Horde and the Alliance has spilled across the face of Azeroth: level 90 players can now queue for Wintergrasp and Tol Barad via the PvP tab to battle one another in these epic conflicts.
Arena matches now have a 25 minute time limit (was 45 minutes).
Rated Battlegrounds now share the same spell restrictions as Arenas.

I never liked TB that much.. ill do it for the honor though. LOVE WG though! I missed it in Cata.. i even did it a few times just for kicks.

[Feehza]

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Thanks god to my lightning speed in quoting.

Very interesting post, what was the reason for deleting Mirai?
I think some ppl deserve the truth.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/arena/blackmoore/5v5/psych/

http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/arena/bl...BUFF STAMPEDE/

http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/arena/bl...re/5v5/bliklo/

All multi-boxers abusing this. All on the same battlegroup and server.


Kruschpak for once i'll give credit.

*Something in really big, bright, candy-colored letters about the pot calling the kettle black.*

Ruh, roh. This thread gettin' real up in here.