Horde overreacted. Blizzard changes killed the AV premade

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I just wanted to get the wand from winning an AV on my alt and maybe get exalted. That feat went from being able to be done in a couple games for a win, and a couple days to get exalted… to three weeks to get exalted and a disgusting winrate. 39 games to get one win?

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Everything is an exploit if it doesn’t benefit the horde. Got it.

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Everything that is unintended and gives an unfair advantage is an exploit. If you can’t see that you’re just being obtuse and salty.

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The problem is quantifying these things.

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I am having fun in both tbh. Sometimes quing against premades in wsg can not be the funnest times and the queue times on horde are longer but I enjoy it anyways. WSG is really fun when its 20 randoms having a good ol time. See you on the battlefield friends.

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https://wow.gamepedia.com/Exploit

I don’t even think you need to actually gain an advantage. I think to be considered an exploit it is enough to just have the intent of gaining an advantage.

But yes, we can argue how blizzard intended to use the queuing system…but I think it would be a hard argument to make that Blizzard intended people to use it in the ways that they were.

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That was more a broad comment on exploiting in general rather than this specific thing.

There are a TON of things that are done to this day that are ‘exploiting’, but most go relatively ignored.

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Fair enough.

I just wanted to add what I feel that Blizzard are using as the definition of Exploiting. I think Blizzard has to triage what the fix/dont fix, something may be technically an exploit…if it’s minor in nature they might just choose to let it slide in order to fix something else.

Edit: https://wow.gamepedia.com/Griefing
Also wanted to point out that griefing doesn’t require you to actively want to negatively effect someone’s experience, but if it accidentally has a big enough impact on enough people it could be considered griefing as well. (But I’m sure intent weighs in when it comes to punishment.)

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No one has tried to kill me yet

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okay smarty i also said proof?

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You start a 6-month necro with this?