i keep seeing people in limit’s and method’s chat saying something like thats what method gets and people asking what did they do?
anyone have an idea?
i know of the ra-den exploit thing, but did something else happen?
Used an exploit to reset a boss several times, while empowering their 4 warlocks, so that on pull they were doing like 400k damage. Supposedly limit did it as well, but not to the same extent.
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Basically this.
The start of a boss pull is always supposed to be the least amount of DPS you’re doing, unless you’re specifically going to pop all cooldowns and do burst damage at the beginning of the fight. Method intentionally reset the boss and let their Warlocks stack their Shards to full before they engaged the boss. This allowed their Warlocks to do their fullest DPS from the beginning, and they did a lot of dps.
Beginning of a boss pull should always be minimal resources, all cooldowns are up, bloodlust is ready, trinkets are raring to go. Not full resources, all cooldowns are up, bloodlust is ready, trinkets are raring to go.
That’s how I figure it. It’s the rules everybody else goes by.
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Were there punishments handed out?
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thats what im wondering.
i know of what they did, but people are talking right now like something happend after all of that
Somebody in another thread mentioned that, I think it was Method, used some un-pullable adds in some kind of boss fight in order to keep their resources high for some of their classes? Other than that, I have no idea what it could be (and I only think it was mentioned in regards to Method, i’m not sure entirely it was said to be them.)
Seems like a simple solution is just to make warlock shards reset when entering combat with a raid boss.
Other class mechanics work like that. Why shouldn’t this one?
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For some reason Ra-Dan resets in 10 seconds instead of the usual > 30.
Method used this to get some stacks for their warlocks.
Method and Limit used this for extra DH Meta uptime, like is done normally for mythic+.
At this point I expect they will just fix his respawn timer during the reset.
I don’t raid much, so it’s tough to see the real offense. Was it the specific way they reset the boss that was the offense? Seems just like the available game mechanics at work
No they didn’t have to do anything weird.
His respawn time is his short for some reason.
No, the boss just had an unusual reset timer.
I mean, its not an intended game mechanic, so that makes it an exploit. People have been banned for far less, and the fact that the World First race is the only real aspect of WoW esports that people pay attention too, makes it an even bigger deal.
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Were they punished for exploiting? Or nothing will happen because they are Method and WoW’s stars?
If the public already know, and we do, then I find it hard to see how Blizzard cannot respond to this.
Method committed the heinous crime of being better than most players.
It’s this one. Especially since at a cursory glance they’re not even winning lol
Not that I think they need to banned, just seems like a good use of game mechanics to me. But then again I couldn’t care less about the world first race so 
I attempted to feel bad for I think 1/10th of a second but then the feeling went away.
Yeah, me neither. I’m just curious hahaha. It’s like watching a soap opera or something xD
no because Blizzard gives them preferential treatment didn’t you see the Mythic Azshara race?
Limit was in the lead having overcome a boss mechanic that Method was still stuck on well Blizzard hotfixes the issue nerfing it and by strange coincidence they not only overcome it at that moment they pass limit and pull off the worlds first
if Limit had won under those conditions id call it just as much a sketchy and tainted victory
Blizzard should’ve left the raid mechanics alone until they resolved it themselves let it be unquestionable who won that but now the cloud of doubt will hang over them
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Knowing that, i’d give the victory to Limit. That’s bullsh-t that they hotfixed and nerfed a boss like that mid-race. Limit beat the boss under those conditions, so it wasn’t impossible like some C’Thun crap.
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No, and likely not ever. In a reply email mentioned on max’s stream, an employee stated that the offense occurred when they weren’t actively watching. Of which there were a few quips that they should shift their playing hours to being after Blizzard offices close for the day.