Apparently there was an exploit with the switches that somehow guaranteed a spectral scale for everyone in the instance.

Everyone in an instance where this happened got a 3 day ban.

People pulling switches specifically to trigger the exploit (still don't know exactly what it was) got a 30 day ban.

Normal switch pullers got a warning.

Heard this from a family friend who works for Turbine, doubt me if you will, but husband just got off the phone with him.

I'm calling BS on this one. You had to pull the levers to kill the dragon, so how can that be an exploit.

I pulled levers, but didn't get scales when we failed. Weird.

Wait ... being randomly slotted in an instance with someone who knew how to do something and did it got you a flipping ban?  Seriously?

I pulled switches personally once.  Well, twice really.  I pulled the switch once, forgot to put quicken on and managed one more pull before I failed to get off a wall of fire and died at the switch (haha).  One instance, two actual pulls.

So what you're saying is that someone, who likely I don't know and isn't one of my 4 physical guild-mates and friends, did something and I got a ban.  Seriously?

So if you were never in the switch room, why should i be banned for what someone else did? Doesn't make sense whatsoever, so i am just very Pissed off about this.

Sirea wrote on Nov 9^th, 2010 at 11:49pm:


Well I got a ban, and know nothing about a lever exploit. So it is either (a) something that you could have done completely accidentally, which isn't much of an exploit to get banned for or (b) not the reason. If it is (A) then turbine investigations are for crap.

thanks for any info you're giving..


we shall see.

gotta love how random people get a permanent mark on their record.



what moles

that cant be it. i played a caster for the whole event. i soloed levers up top using firewall, ive been down on the floors flinging firewalls for gargoyles, and other shit for the dragon. i spent 4 days in shortman instances and full ones, working as a team or solo, whichever was called for. i spent 4 days in one spot when not in a dragon, nukin shit while having draughts running constant. who as a caster didnt??
and.....wait for it........it was guaranteed a spectral scale for everyone upon defeating the dragon. i got many many, and never dualboxed. so, in essence your "source" can suck it. seems i would have got more than a warning, and some guildies i know had toons banned that never logged in for the mabar event, being mules. some for 3, some for 7, and several warnings. seen some others with 30 day bans.
but still, your source can suck it

Quote:

It sounds like pulling a lever normally in an exploited instance merely gets you a warning.

Why merely a warning, I have no damn clue.

Sirea wrote on Nov 10^th, 2010 at 12:19am:


The little birdy was probably your post here, and now you are using his post to support yours.

siftrant wrote on Nov 10^th, 2010 at 12:23am:


Eh, his info is slightly different from mine though. He could have a source as well. Like, I didn't know that the length of the smaller bans was related to how many times you were in an instance that this happened in.

Yo Yo all!!

I just got a 3 day ban, so came here of course to see what the hell its all about lol.
I'm still not sure what it is going on but I look forward to hearing from people what I supposedly did....

I ran about ahh.... 6 dragon instances over the event? maybe 8?
I was once down in the pit putting firewalls on the dragon.

Every single other time I was in an instance (on WF Wizzy) I was soloing one of the levers.
I did what I thought I had to here.. Keep the lever pulled at all times.. Never let it get deactivated.
Kept my firewalls up, and killed the gargoyles as they came.

I was in one or two fail runs.. (In which i did not get a scale).

Very curious about this one... (first ban lol).

Was in several dragon fights. Did not get a scale every time, had at least one fail (maybe two? wasn't counting). Played on two servers.

Operated a switch once, pulled it constantly the whole time because I didn't know any better.

Otherwise was in altar rooms. Spent about half the time being too lagged to do anything.

Banned three days.

Regarding other theories:

Sometimes people had pets and sometimes they didn't. Don't remember if I ever pulled one out myself.

Don't think I ever D/C'd but who knows maybe I am forgetting one.

I did cast mass invisibility on an altar once.