The past few weeks of Classic have been quite demoralizing when it comes to how our experience in-game has played out.
The cause of this have been multiple counts of griefing at worldboss fights. Both on Kazzak and Azuregos.
What happend on Kazzak was thatpeople intentionally pulled huge hoards of mobs and kited them into other raids so the mobs would kill everyone. And believe me, those elites are nasty. Even tho we have 5-6 warlocks banishing, there is still enough elites to kill us off and we have to run back and reset again.
And no, this is not alliance doing this. These are horde against horde actions. To intentionally kill allies within the same faction.
Then we have Azuregos.
What happend to us yesterday was that when we got Azuregos down to about 20% , other Hordes from the same two guilds that griefed at Kazzak, started to try and taunt the boss away from us and pull him out of this combat range. We tried to taunt him back, dot him and bleed him but it was for nothing when a Druid taunted the boss and sprinted away. Azuregos reset and we lost our kill. A more or less guaranteed kill aswell.
So what dose Blizzard do when it comes to enforce the rule against griefing?
And yes, this dose very much go under griefing. Referring to the rules in current Terms of Use Agreement:
xi. Disruption / Harassment: Engage in any conduct intended to disrupt or diminish the game experience for other players, or disrupt operation of Blizzard’s Platform in any way, including:
- Harassment, “griefing,” abusive behavior or chat, conduct intended to unreasonably undermine or disrupt the Game experiences of others, deliberate inactivity or disconnecting, and/or any other activity which violates Blizzard’s Code of Conduct or In-Game Policies.
At Kazzak players from the same faction of ours pulled mobs with the sole intent of getting us killed so we would not get the kill of Kazzak. During our fight with him, and outside of the fights far from the boss while we were regrouping.
At Azuregos players from the same faction used taunt to pull the boss out of combat range and reset the boss. So they could have a chance to steal the tag. And then at the same time, totally ruining our game experience, since we cant really do anything against it.
In the past Blizzards stance have been the following.
“Blizzard isn’t against griefing behavior when there’s a PvP remedy (if you can get together a group of allies to trounce the offending party or simply kill all the mobs quickly, the problem is solved), but when the griever is impossible to attack (is not set PvP, or is of the same faction as his targets), there is no such PvP remedy.”
All in all, we have spent hours upon hours preparing and scouting out these bosses. So far we have lost atleast 2 kills to griefing, and it’s honestly ruining the game for me and others.
Here’s a video of a Horde druid pulling Azuregos away from us and out of range causing him to reset.
