WoW Exploiters Cleared New Mythic Raid ‘First’ Using Grey Items, Got Banned, And Then Did It Again
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The race to be the first to clear the Mythic difficulty version of World of Warcraft’s new Liberation of Undermine raid is still ongoing, though a group of exploiters have already technically cleared it. Twice.
It all happened last week when the raid launched. A guild by the name of RAoV (Random Acts of Violation) Quality Assurance managed to, somehow, clear the raid’s final boss, Gallywix, before any other boss in the raid while decked out in practically useless grey items. As soon as the feat began appearing on raid-tracking sites like WoWProgress, Raider.IO, and even Blizzard’s own WoW Hall of Fame, players started scratching their heads over how it was done. Blizzard, however, was already on the case.
“We immediately began an investigation into these unusual kills, and we detected a group of new accounts using an exploit to cast an internal spell to kill Mythic raid bosses, including Chrome King Gallywix,” WoW community manager Kaivax said on the game’s forums. “Our security engineers quickly moved to put a stop to the cheat and take action against the accounts involved, and we have cleared the Hall of Fame to await the rightful winner to the RWF.”
