{"id":1146021,"date":"2026-02-06T23:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UMJXxna3Da6Gk6rtrCQeLR"},"modified":"2026-02-06T23:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:39:12","slug":"world-of-warcraft-guild-uses-exploits-to-get-world-first-on-the-games-new-raid-gets-banned-puts-its-name-backwards-and-does-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/world-of-warcraft-guild-uses-exploits-to-get-world-first-on-the-games-new-raid-gets-banned-puts-its-name-backwards-and-does-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"World of Warcraft guild uses exploits to get world ‘first’ on the game’s new raid, gets banned, puts its name backwards and does it again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WoW’s new patch, Undermine(d), opened the gates to its new raid recently. Which means, as is tradition, a race to Mythic world first has begun. While guilds have been wearing their keyboards and MMO mouses to the bone to have the honour of being the first to punch Gallywix and his dumb tophat into the stratosphere on the raid’s hardest difficulty, there’s been a jester doing a silly little jig in the hardcore raider’s court.<\/p>\n

Introducing RAoV (Random Acts of Violation) Quality Assurance: A guild who, around five days ago at the time of writing, somehow beat Mythic Gallywix in gray<\/a> (the lowest quality possible) gear. Obviously, given how the game works, this was an exploit. Blizzard very quickly stamped things out, as community manager Kaivax<\/a> explained:<\/p>\n

“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. Our security engineers quickly moved to put a stop to the cheat and [took] action against the accounts involved, and we have cleared the Hall of Fame to await the rightful winner of the [race to world first]. Thank you to everyone who reported this. We will continue to employ the utmost vigilance about fair play in World of Warcraft.”<\/p>\n

Then, yesterday, they did it again<\/a>, on a fresh batch of accounts and a guild named “ecnarussAeR ytilauQ VoAR” which, as you might have surmised, is their guild name backwards. In an act of bold-faced smartassery that’s almost impressive, one rules violator by the name of BadLuckMax wrote on their RaiderIO (a popular website used to track raid stats): “[Quality assurance] is really hard”, before quoting Kaivax’s post on the forums.<\/p>\n

Congratulations RAoV Quality Assurance on world SECOND Gallywix!<\/a> from r\/wow<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n