Unfortunately, the blue post is trying to minimize the problem but doesnāt answer the fundamental questions of:
I really donāt see why you targeted Hiredgun with this, he thanked them for responding and said it didnāt matter if the exploit was small or large, still an exploit. Did nothing to claim Blizzard was lying?
I have to agree since it is deemed exploitable then some reactionary measure needs to in place to derter those that exploit not just now but in the future. Why? Becuase those that did this KNEW what they were doing, They deliberately knew that switching layers would bring in a certain element for their own gain.
Thank you for making this post. It was almost comical to see the amount of doom-saying about a screenshot that was clearly a crock of BS
Seems to be the correct interpretation, Iām not too happy with this.
I donāt want to explain why this is some spectacularly funny stuff for those folks relying on a hash of the Org /who, but, trust meā¦
Itās funny.
Are you talking about farming dungeons?
That has absolutely nothing to do with layers.
Back in Vanilla you could enter a dungeon, farm it, leave, reset, and repeat.
Word got out that there was this one pull of little plant creatures just inside one of the Dire Maul portals that was easy to solo farm for exp. Players would zone in (without a group), kill that one pack, zone out, reset the instance and repeat. All this was within the rules and in Vanilla.
However, each time a player did this a new instance ID was created. And that instance stayed on the server even though nobody was in it. This started to bog down the servers.
Blizzard fixed this problem by implementing an instance limit. They made it so you could only enter 5 different instances per hour. If you tried to go above the limit, the game wouldnāt let you zone in.
All of this occurred during Vanilla 14 years ago.
The screenshot was overhyped, but there are still multiple clips of streamers using this to obtain ore spawns and mob spawns that otherwise were inaccessible.
itās not you buddy. itās the people that are still drawing up wild conclusions even after an official response.
Yāall, just stop whining about it and making 500 threads about it. There is always gonna be someone who figures out some way to do something shady. Thereās no way that āeverybody is doing itā and itās ruining EVERYTHINGQQQ!
I barely understand layering past the basics, and I bet there are more people like me than not. I couldnāt even tell you when or if I have changed layers.
Bliz has more important things to do like fix the drop rate of those damn centaur bracers.
Ohhhhā¦hereās the nurse with my medsā¦
I thought that may have been the case.
Cheers for the clarification.
Wrong, layering is not āfineā.
When players go into Stormwind or Ironforge, thereās only a dozen people around, the game feels ādeadā. Itās a huge negative impression on players who want the vibrance and ālifeā of Vanilla wow.
I can tell you for certain that you have switched layers, and the fact that you donāt understand it beyond the basics means you likely shouldnāt mindlessly defend it.
Thank youā¦but I bet the complaints wonāt stop
And they shouldnāt until the issue is fixed, Blizzardās response was quite late and very lacking.
fairly certain maura chest farming was the reason for the instance limit. i could be wrong though - it happens.
True, but thousands every week more and it would be. Ultimately reaching a tipping point.
Wrong, but go ahead and keep whining.
100% true.
Also if you do a /who -z with the zone name it shows your layer only.
We wonāt really have those answers until we get further down the road.
Generally if there is an exploit Blizzard doesnāt discuss its nature so not to make the problem worse. In the past they have covered ot after they fix whatever it was.
They also generally handle any repercussions all at once and that sometimes takes a bit of time.