There are (at least) 2 Horde guilds on Faerlina, and , who have established a devilsaur leather “mafia”. They sit in Discord with Alliance guilds (including at least ), and whenever other Horde members try to farm devilsaur leather, or even as so much get NEAR devilsaurs, they relay the Horde members positions to the Alliance guilds, who promptly arrive and kill them. The Alliance and Horde colluders have a truce to not-kill members of their guilds, but kill everyone else.
This is illegal, dishonorable, and immoral. These guilds are circumventing in-game mechanics (the inability to communicate in real-time with members of the opposing faction) using third-party applications in order to betray members of their own faction, and deny them access to materials and gear that they need. The “mafia” guilds then establish a monopoly on devilsaur leather/gear, and price gouge the items.
Their operations are so vast and organized (e.g., 24/7 “guarding” of Un’Goro) that the entire server has become aware of their operations. and members often all their gear to level-1 alts in attempt to remove themselves from their guilty guild tags (although some of the level 1 alts still use the guild tags). (it won’t let me post the link but its imgur dot com slash a/OkQYBpB )
Other / members will leave their guild temporarily while selling it (to obfuscate their true guild affiliations). Some mafia members have even gone so far as to openly admit to mafia-farming, and reminding players they have no choice: Gom-Faerlina writes in /2, “Every melee worth their salt has a pair of [Devilsaur Gauntlets][Devilsaur Leggings]. Either be mad or get yourself a fine, mafia approved set”. (it won’t let me post the link but its imgur dot com slash a/7pAjBKY )
This is ruining the game experience for players. This is not simply “PvP” or “ganking”, this is an organized operation to control entire server economies using illegal cross-faction REAL-TIME chat, and to betray their own faction members who are trying to obtain and farm their own materials.
Please upvote this for visibility; the GMs need to see this and ban the offending guilds.
GMs – If you need further evidence, I have screenshots from members in which they not only explicitly admit to all of the above accusations, but brag about doing so. (The screenshots include the BattleTag ID of someone in the guild so I don’t want to post their name publicly).