Is “literally” not on that page. Nowhere on that page does it say that it is. What it says is that in situations where Blizz determines that there’s been “griefing” (which is up to them to define and in over 10 years of regularly posting in the CS forums, I’ve never seen a player actioned for), then it may be considered against the Code of Conduct.
Nowhere in that page does it state that poly-morphing a target is griefing.
Nowhere in that page does it state the word “ban” even.
While I’m sure you’ll argue you’re right and I’m wrong, I’ll take my 40k posts in CS and years of experience over your personal interpretation of the rules.
How can someone claim to read this as not greifing is bannable
Behavior that intentionally detracts from others’ enjoyment (such as griefing, throwing, feeding, etc.) is unacceptable. We expect our players to treat each other with respect and promote an enjoyable environment. Acceptable behavior is determined by player reports and Blizzard’s decision, and violating these guidelines will result in account and gameplay restrictions
Okay, define griefing. Go ahead. Because all I’ve ever seen is “anything that makes me mad”.
Blizz doesn’t have a specific definition of griefing. And again, I’ve never seen anyone actioned for it. You stated that you’ve been “banned” for it. You likely mean suspended for something else though.
And I have been banned or suspended whatever you want to say for this. And so have others. I use to camp people and get banned. I also use to have a friend who would join VoAs with me and he would send in his pet during the raid to another boss and it would pull 2/3 boses at once and finally people caught on, all reported him, and he got banned. There is multiple ways to get banned for greifing but they aren’t going to put “you can’t pull multiple bosses during a pug or you’re banned” so they have to put “we will see if this is greifing and if we think it is you’re banned”
I’m a frost mage. My frostbolt cast is 2 seconds if sustained. Poly will get a heal tick before my frost bolt lands, and it will likely heal for more than my frostbolt’s damage.
I can tell very few people on these forums have seen a mage griefing with poly lol.
It wont personally affect me. I’m asking this question for the poor saps who will end up dealing with this.
If the mage is higher level they can downrank Polly and never go oom. Druids don’t have a fast attack speed till 20. And you will also likely oom or die before the mage ooms. The healing on Polly is almost instant. Just in case this hasn’t ever happened to you it is actually bad enough to where you can’t kill anything
Good lord, there was a huge war over King B in STV on the Nost PvE server I played on when it re-launched. Two groups, ours and another trying to steal the tag rather than wait their turn. Sheeping constantly while the melee and hunters in each group worked to steal aggro and pull the mob to leash if we didn’t have the tag etc, while killing each other (or trying to through the heals since we all flagged after a few minutes, lol). It lasted 17 or 18 minutes before we finally got their healers down and won.
Not gonna lie, I enjoyed it. It was petty, but I enjoyed it.
I wouldn’t know =( only ever ate in-game food. I grew up in a poor area, no stomach, no bile duct, hepatic portal, only one intestine and half a colon.
Gotta say, it sounds like it’s a private server scripting bug to me at this point.
If multiple private server players are saying that the healing is instant, but no one remembers that being the case in Vanilla, perhaps the problem isn’t people’s memory, but simply a symptom of the well-known fact that private servers had to guess at all server-side mechanics and were often very far off.
I thought I read that implication, and I know Cheater is talking about them; I may have made an inference that you did not intend! If so my bad, but either way, I stand by my assertion that the heal in Vanilla was neither instant nor was it “30-50% per tick”, and if that private servers are doing either of those things, they are in error.
(I mained a mage in BC and I remember when it was changed to be an instant heal; it was during BC. Prior to that, I used to use Polymorph+Fireblast as a spell interrupt when Counterspell was on cooldown.)
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