It is not … the potions have been implemented as reward for service medals.
But they where meant to be used one at a time, however if you separated stacks you could have more than one active and that was (in my eyes very clearly) an exploit.
It was not possible to activate it from the same stack … I think it is obvious it was not intended.
I think it is not about the levels gained, but about potions stacked - if you stacked two or three I guess Blizzard sees it a little more to the curious side (two might even occur unintentionally for a few minutes, when you send the second potion to you alt, short before the first expires and you activate it right away), while more (and some where using significantly more) are obvious intentional exploit for a major gain.
An additional factor is probably if the account has been actioned before (I think Blizzard stated this quite some time ago - sadly I have no source at hand).
“It is harsh, sure, and that’s intentional. The abuse of the exploit was self evident the moment it was possible, shared and openly used. You’re a veteran from 2010, you remember other such exploits and keeping away from them.”
From a GM.
HE adviced to never stack potions int he future. So im totally gonna send a ticket whenever I can stack something again. lol
I get it. People used 20 pots at once and got suspended.
How is it different to leveling on timeless isle in MoP or exploiting honor levels in bfa to get horse mount tho? as far as I know people who did those two things never got suspended.
Yeah, some people did get banned for doing that. There as an uproar about the bans, with people saying it was a “clever use of mechanics”. Some people lost the honor levels as well.
I just find it funny that they banned people for using few potions to speed up leveling process a little bit. If they could afford XX potions it means they spent XX hours doing content that provided honorbound medals. It’s not like they conjured potions out of thin air to exploit the game.
This whole situation shows that leveling is still dull and revulsive.
I love argument “they lost money on boosts so you got punished”. If your main concern are microtransactions in a huge mmo then you should wake up and think about your priorities. I get that no matter what it is still a punishable offence against TOS but… but… eh I’ll be back on sunday.
The lengths of other players bans are not a guilde I am afraid. Penalties add up, so if one of those had previously had bans, they could get a 30 days suspension even for just doing 1 level on the exploit.
If you got 7 days that is on the lower end. Bans were 3 to 30 days. It may also not be about the amount of levels, but the fact that 113-119 is a longer exp bracket than the same number of levels from say 33-39. So whilst both those skip 6 levels, the amount of exp actually skipped is far greater. So I would say 7 days is about right if it’s your 1st offence. That last one you quoted that got 30 days for 114-120 likely had previous history with exploits etc.
Can I just point out that nobody got “banned” its just a suspension The severity and length seems a little off tho, no logic to it. Seen people who used 5 get the same time as ppl who used 30 and ppl who gained 50 lvls receive similar times as those who gained 10. Just seems completely random.
The minimum is 2 days not 3. I’ll admit I’m one of those who received a 2 day suspension… Entirely on me tho, no excuses made. Max us also more than 30, seen ppl with 32 days.
My hardline in this is; bugs are for the devs to fix and banning them is punishing the player for the sloppyness of the company
At the same time I also think its reasonable to say; we discovered this bug please dont use it. BUT make it as a pop-up in game so that you cant say you missed the memo
so, just to make it clear, am i safe to level my alts with this potion AND not to endanger my oxygensupply known as world of warcraft?
is this sloppycoding landmine cleared, or is it waiting for more victims to put toes upon it?
The severity and length seems a little off tho, no logic to it. Seen people who used 5 get the same time as ppl who used 30 and ppl who gained 50 lvls receive similar times as those who gained 10. Just seems completely random.