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The first real WoW Cheat – How WoW lost its clean record
It’s one of those days were I put on my jogging shoes and I can’t get my mind from a topic. I thought long and hard if I really wanted to do this, but I believe I’m doing the right thing here. The significance of what I’m about to tell you is too huge for the game to keep it on the down low. Every single player that is competing in some way in World of Warcraft will be affected by this be it PvE or PvP players and I believe it is your right to know. Let’s start from the beginning:
I’m the first to admit that WoW Arena has its flaws but one thing we couldn’t accuse the game of:
Having real cheats.
Some will say that guilds have exploited bugs and therefore cheated but that’s not what I’m talking about.
You could go ahead and say that wintrading is cheating which I agree with but not to the degree I am going to tell you about.It has nothing to do with the game but everything with the player interaction.
Maybe a Chinese teleport hacker has grabbed a Frost Lotus from you and you cried for hours, but did it really ever have an impact on WoW Arena or the PvE competition? Hardly ever.
Again I thought long and hard if I wanted to contaminate the last moral high ground that we WoW players could take over other games in which Map hack and Aimbots are well known. With the latest wave of evidence however I think to save this season from a total disgrace, I have to expose the first real cheat that ever disrupted WoW as a whole.
For this we have to go back, before the Arena Pass Realm was even announced. Bladey and Draintrain were playing an extremely successful WLD together with an amazing win percentage and everyone started to believe in the strength of the comp again as similar movements were going on in the US. Draintrain, being the competitive nature that he is, decided to ask his team to participate in the big tournaments or just to try to make a name for themselves in order to find a sponsor and step into the spotlight.
Bladey seemed to didn’t really want to step it up, claiming that his mother wouldn’t let him. Draintrain went as far as to convince Bladey’s mother on VoIP to let him attend tournaments. Even with his mother’s blessing, Bladey still refused and left Draintrain high and dry which fortunately found Barburas as we know now. Fast forward about half a year, we now know why Bladey refused to potentially travel the world to play a videogame.
Bladey is one of the first cheaters who manipulated game files to have an unfair advantage over his opponent.
Due to an apparently undetectable change in an MPQ-file, players are able to effectively lower their GCD to 1 second without any haste whatsoever.
The advantage for every other class than Rogues is apparent.
Bladey was known for his ability to dish out tons of pressure which barely any Warrior ever compared to. Today we know he’s little more than a miserable cheater.
Supposedly he was informed about the cheat by none other than Deadly Gladiator Wintrader Icematikx. He himself had been playing ATC with Braindeadly and Kbus on TR and shied away from queuing on the last night albeit having a real chance to qualify sitting at the 10th spot at that time because “he had to raid Ulduar”. An achievement run, mind you. We at the time considered this to be an excuse in order to not show up at Regionals in shame of the things he had been doing in the past as surely some people would’ve tried to get back to him. Today we know there was more to it.
(Keeping in dubio pro reo in mind, take this with a grain of salt.) Apparently Braindeadly was also somewhat briefed by Icematikx, but I can’t say this for sure as we don’t have any hard evidence on this case at this point in time. It seems somewhat fishy though that a team that was hovering at 2,4k for a while is now competing on Cyclone for Wrathful Gladiator, with a ridiculous win percentage in their latest matches. (For example a win streak of 55 games from 2.8k to ~2925). Trustworthy informants also claim that they have confronted him and his team and he admitted to have used it “for fun” in PvE before and that it’s actually not that big of an advantage. May I remind you that this is coming from a Hunter, a class with basically no resources playing a comp in which no class really is limited by anything else than the GCD, ATC.
In closing I must say, that it isn’t easy for me to write this in a time where so many of you are disappointed with the game and he direction it took in WoTLK and also the recent happenings in the pro player community, be it because of a council, wintrading, or simply the borefest that is Wizardcleave. I assure you that as soon as I got word of this I contacted everyone in my power that could be remotely affected by this asap including the Loaded manager while MLG was going on etc. I also submitted it through the hopefully right channels to Blizzard. Since the hack seems to be untraceable, I decided to open Pandora’s box to raise awareness and allow you to report those cheaters.
We know that some of them almost made it to Regionals. The dignity of the entire community is on the line here.
Evidence is in Hydra’s blog below and I recommend to keep an eye out. Don’t be too paranoid though, some people are just that good and I’d argue that Barburas is probably an even better Warrior without the hack.
Yiska out.
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Hydramist Community
http://hydramist.net/blog/the-first-real-wow-cheat-how-wow-lost-its-clean-record/
More drama…
http://www.arenajunkies.com/showthread.php?t=202610
True or false?
~Discuss~
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