Mythic+ Shrouded Hero Title Going Out - Players Who Abused Legacy Quest Buff DQ'ed

Posted 2022/11/16 at 1:38 PM by Squishei

The Mythic+ Shrouded Hero title will be going out to players today.In this region, we had to disqualify some players who abused a buff from sharing a legacy quest to achieve their top scores.The cutoff score of 3120 did not change following disqualifications.Congratulations to all Shrouded Heroes!

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Comment by thanyou

Since its already closed, what was the bug?

Comment by Dasron

oh nooo haha

Comment by VarusEU

Since its already closed, what was the bug?

a buff from sharing a legacy quest

Comment by Schattensang

How could a quest improve your score? What weird spaghetti-code did allow that to happen?

Comment by Artek88

u bugging u get banned whats the point of discussing about it... playing the game u accept its rules... obvious to everyone...

Comment by Rhordric

How could a quest improve your score? What weird spaghetti-code did allow that to happen?

i assume it allowed them to do bigger numbers in the dungeon allowing them to beat the key better and earn more score/push further

Comment by Sailon

Since its already closed, what was the bug?

a buff from sharing a legacy quest

What kind of buff was that? I mean in numbers or %

Comment by avatar1337

Since its already closed, what was the bug?

a buff from sharing a legacy quest

What was the buff from the legacy quest?

Comment by Elarink

The bug was the quest "Zen'kiki, the Druid," which gave an improved mark of the wild buff.

Comment by tronkles

Since its already closed, what was the bug?

You could get 5% main stat from a quest and simply drop and retake/reshare when it fell off
Another one was 10% stamina from a pvp consumeable

Comment by grayshirt

How could a quest improve your score? What weird spaghetti-code did allow that to happen?

Probably referring to this?

It was made pretty mainstream at the high end of mythic plus recently that there were 2 buffs you could obtain outside of the normal Shadowlands consumables that provide a group with a massive power gain. One is a buff that provides 5% main stat that lasts 60 minutes, is obtainable through a quest, and the buff can be regained (if it falls off) by simply dropping and re-sharing the quest. The second buff is a 10% stamina buff that is obtained by using a PvP exclusive consumable.

Comment by Aralius

#1 - You don't mention anywhere that this is the cuttoff for Europe not NA or any other regions.

#2 - They only took inconsideration the Zen'kiki buff but they didn't consider the pvp food that could be eaten in certain locations that persisted through summons and gave 10% Stam. Or using your Azerite neck with conflict and strife equipped in Boralus as a warlock to get the pvp talent demon armor applied that also gave an additional 10% health

#3 - Guilds could use the Zen'kiki buff and raid thus any guild that had a member that used it and killed fated bosses to receive portals should have all achievements/portals stripped away.

Can't set an expectation in one instance of content vrs. the other.

Comment by Dwanex

So a random shared this quest once in a 31 grimrail at the start of the run (only run where I had the buff). I made my rating 3135 full random, so I get DQ because a random f*cked me?

Comment by pghcrew

So this means the players who got a free mount on their evoker is gonna have those deleted right?

Comment by Aralius

So a random shared this quest once in a 31 grimrail (only run where I had the buff) at the start of the run. I made my rating 3135 full random, so I get DQ because a random f*cked me?

Maybe, I feel your pain though. I ran probably 6 or 7 dungeons at 25'/26's with the buff. Not a single IO increase with it and they will probably screw us all :)

Comment by hirameki

shocked they did anything - glad they did

Comment by dokeefe1986

fair game. glad they caught it but what a joke. plenty of stuff like this gets by without consequence, especially at the higher levels. they just keep it to themselves in their little circles so it doesnt get exposed or fixed.

Comment by Rellyne

The problem is that nobody cares about fated raid. Unlike the title that is a competitive scenario.

Comment by Xloudman20267

#3 - Guilds could use the Zen'kiki buff and raid thus any guild that had a member that used it and killed fated bosses to receive portals should have all achievements/portals stripped away.

Can't set an expectation in one instance of content vrs. the other.

The difference here is that these people (almost) took the title away from non-cheating players. Someone getting the mythic raid portals with a 5% buff doesn't mean other people don't get portals

Comment by Scaryfox

Congrats to the players who got this title! I imagine it took plenty of tough fights. And it's good to see Blizzard keeping the other players honest because I imagine they thought they wouldn't get punished just because nothing happened right away.

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