Some of you may remember a similar story during Vault I believe where some exploiters found ways to bring Torghast powers into the raid and one-shot bosses with it.

Guess whos back, this time likely involving Mage powers. Buckle up, this is a bit tinfoily but I believe to have found a bunch of accounts being prepped to be sold through this manner.

If you’re subbed to Raider.io you can see a couple of their accidentally logged runs here:

• +30 Waycrest Tyra with 117 deaths, Triad killed in 21s – https://raider.io/mythic-plus-runs/season-df-3/30153645-30-waycrest-manor

• +30 Atal Tyra with 64 deaths, Yazma killed in 23s – https://raider.io/mythic-plus-runs/season-df-3/30155663-30-ataldazar

• +30 Fall Tyra with 63 deaths, Iridikron killed in 13s – https://raider.io/mythic-plus-runs/season-df-3/30144414-30-doti-galakronds-fall

• +30 Rise Tyra with 41 deaths, Tyr killed in 27s – https://raider.io/mythic-plus-runs/season-df-3/30147926-30-doti-murozonds-rise

If you’re not subbed, here’s screenshots of whats going on there – for subbed users, it looks different now as they noticed their character names were exposed and have since changed account privacy to all but this mage through which I was able to find the other runs (and more):

• Waycrest

• Atal

• Fall

• Rise

Note what’s common:

• hilariously high death count

• impossibly fast boss kills

• the priest and paladin chain die to pad the timer so it looks like a legit finish time

• very very unconventional pathing (e.g. killing no trash before Priestess in Atal and pulling her first)

• double mage

  • most notably, these 2 mages are surviving eg. +30 Tyra Volkaal without tank alive for 1:30 and still kill him and never died in one of the logged runs

  • they are the common factor across all of these comps

So I spent some time checking their past runs as far as possible – armory does a good job here linking their best runs to other characters and there’s a literal network of exploiting characters out there. All but one of the following characters are sus in some way:

• very low achievement points, most very recently created

• no log history

• some kind of exploitative behaviour

  • either killing M raid bosses the same/around the same date as world first, without a guild

  • or partaking in above keys

The characters:

• Emistesia – Stormscale

  • probably their main, has some log history, has 30k+ achievement points

  • killed M Fyrakk first on Dec 2. no guild killed M Fyrakk that day – https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-gb/character/eu/stormscale/emistesia/achievements/feats-of-strength/raids

    • this would also be world 5th

  • killed 6/9M same day Echo did

  • this character did the mistake of playing a key with Dracotaco / Deami / Dazingu / Olmanu, more to them below

  • killed M Sark May 15 – same day as Liquid (and thus before Echo) so here’s your actual world 2nd, EU first I guess

  • member of an empty guild (Newmill), probably for banking reasons

• Plamu – Stormscale

• Pristi – Stormscale

• Julom – Stormscale

• Ironar – Stormscale

• Hejatol – Stormscale (just renamed an hour ago from Frupy, you’ve seen them in the logged runs above)

  • these 5 are member of Apoli, a guild that holds most of the sus characters

  • none of these have raid progress

• Dazingu – Stormscale

  • also killed M Fyrakk Dec 2

• Olmano – Stormscale

  • also killed M Fyrakk Dec 2

  • both in another banking guild (Tappabob)

• Dracotaco – Stormscale

  • killed M Fyrakk Jan 9, same as below

• Deami – Stormscale

  • all keys with Deami, Emistesia, Dazingu, Dracotaco, Olmano

  • killed M Fyrakk Jan 9, world 78-81

• Howtolava – Kazzak

  • that’s the anon elemental in the logs above

  • unsure why but armory shows them at 463 ilvl, while rio has them at 486