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> They also did this back in Mists of Panderia, and not just for a short time, but it was end game content where you could use an object and become a hostile PV
by trafficante 3y ago
> They also did this back in Mists of Panderia, and not just for a short time, but it was end game content where you could use an object and become a hostile PVP player to EVERYONE, not just the other faction, even on PVE servers.
This event was a callback to one of my favorite griefing exploits of vanilla WoW.
There used to be a Horde-only quest called “Test of Honor” in one of the mid-level Kalimidor zones. Most players would just finish the quest and carry on with levelling - but, in the rare instance where the player FAILS the quest, they get hit with a several hour long debuff called “Mark of Shame” that flagged them as hostile-on-attack to all factions.
This meant that players with the debuff could still safely move around inside Horde capital cities (though they couldn’t interact with NPCs) but if any “friendly” player was unwise enough to try attacking them, they’d immediately be swarmed with lvl 60 elite Horde guard NPCs.
By the time Blizzard removed the debuff, the griefing meta was to level a Tauren (largest hitboxes), get the debuff, and then either camp on top of the Org mailbox or clip through into the back of the Auction House and sit on top of the auctioneers. Any player attempting to check their mail or auctions would muscle-memory right click, which caused an auto-attack on the debuffed griefer, which shortly resulted in a trip to the graveyard as the elite lvl 60 NPCs would spawn to rock your world.
We had gimmick guilds like <On Strike> where the characters were named AuctioneerX to prevent savvy players from using the /tar Auctioneer command to bypass the hitbox.
Ah, those were the days siiip