[Fishing] Catch Cata fish/Volatile Water

[xxajziegxx]

Blue post or confirmation please

[Watcher]

If a ban is coming, it better come soon lol

i lol'd

[nbibeau3132]

Well, all three of my accounts were suspended this morning for the same reasons posted above:

Account Action: 24 Hour Suspension
Offense: Entered and gained goods in a forbidden area
Details: Accessed expansion content through abuse use of game mechanics. All goods gained from these areas have been removed from the characters involved

All three accounts received the same e-mail, just with different account/character names. On one toon I fished the coastal waters of Uldum, on another the Hyjal pond. The third account did no fishing anywhere, but handled some of the fish to put into a gbank tab. I don't believe I abused any in-game mechanics on that account, but what can you do? This is a risk you knowingly take when following any instructions in the "Exploit" section of this site. It's only a 24 hr ban, so I'm not too worried about it. No realm first cook for me. =/

p.s. Thanks all for posting various exploits. Keep up the good work!

[xxajziegxx]

Well, all three of my accounts were suspended this morning for the same reasons posted above:

Account Action: 24 Hour Suspension
Offense: Entered and gained goods in a forbidden area
Details: Accessed expansion content through abuse use of game mechanics. All goods gained from these areas have been removed from the characters involved

All three accounts received the same e-mail, just with different account/character names. On one toon I fished the coastal waters of Uldum, on another the Hyjal pond. The third account did no fishing anywhere, but handled some of the fish to put into a gbank tab. I don't believe I abused any in-game mechanics on that account, but what can you do? This is a risk you knowingly take when following any instructions in the "Exploit" section of this site. It's only a 24 hr ban, so I'm not too worried about it. No realm first cook for me. =/

p.s. Thanks all for posting various exploits. Keep up the good work!

When did you last fish there and the ban happened this morning?

[nezrof]

watch out, got suspended doing it and they fixed it cannot loot fish anymore like in twilight highland.

[Wish311]

I only fished in uldum from Tanaris side. Oh well It's only 24 hours.

[nbibeau3132]

When did you last fish there and the ban happened this morning?

I last fished there on Tuesday. I was fishing when the spots were hotfixed.

[St3ve]

Has anyone of you deleted the cataclysm fish or do you still wait for tuesday and try the realmfirst with them?
I have bought all meat (from the crates) needed to go from 450-525 but still have the fish in my bank ... don't want to destroy them, they actually took time to catch

[Nuggyy]

Account Action: 24 Hour Suspension
Offense: Entered and gained goods in a forbidden area
Details: Accessed expansion content through abuse use of game mechanics. All
goods gained from these areas have been removed from the characters involved.


I didnt enter any new zone at all.

[TumahaB]

Did you receive any new Items?
Volatile Water?
Savaged Leather?
Fish?

[pallet]

Account Action: 24 Hour Suspension
Offense: Entered and gained goods in a forbidden area
Details: Accessed expansion content through abuse use of game mechanics. All
goods gained from these areas have been removed from the characters involved.

I think blizzard counts the exploit fishing as a accsessing expansion content so that exlains everyones ban if u havent axtually been in any new content.

Anyways. I talked to my dear friend today and he told me he got suspended by fishing cata fish and he told me all about it. I dont know if all is totaly true since i dont have screens or anything but il share with you since its kinda interesting i guess.

my friend fished up like 30 stacks of different fishes and got a 24 ban the day after, The same day as the suspension he went on another acc and fished but this time he used the mailbox to send the fish back and forth to his charachter, that made him get suspended again, obviously blizzard is scanning the boxes?. Stuborn as he is, he bought wowtime on a old account so he could talk to a GM about how people get the new cataclysm fish. They chit chated a bit. I dont know if this is 100% true but then the gm GM had told him this:
Accessing expansion goods in any way is forbidden. We at blizzard already know of this problem and working on it as we speek. Anything else i can help you with?

Then he said something like: Yes actually i want to ask you one thing more, ive heard people are hiding fishes and other items in guildbanks, mailboxes and etc. How can you know whos goods it is?like if people keep sending them around in mailboxes etc?
The gm had then said something like:
I cant tell you how. But we are working on this and if we find expansion goods they will be removed and the account holder suspended bla bla.

Me myself have fished quite much since last week untill hotfixes and i have done the same way, but after i mailed it back ive trashed up my mailbox with shit like gems and greens etc so you cant see my boxes with fish on the first page of my mailbox. I havent been suspended.

So from this im just curious in how blizzard work on this problem, do they random scan people? are they checking loggs from the places it has been able to fish or how do they really find thoose people who has obtained cata goods? I dont really know but i think my way to "hide" goods has been successful. I have 3 friends who has done the same way and they havent been suspended either.

I hope this wasnt to shabby to read, gl out there and keep up the good job

[ElcyionLacar]

Actually this would be a pretty easy thing to do with a script.
As I'm sure most of you are aware all of the content of wow is on a database.
Each item has a unique ID tag (wowhead infact uses these numbers to track items as well).
Also your character, bags, mail boxes, ah transactions, are all stored on the database.

All blizzard needs to do with regards to currently holding exploited items is
- Run search on player accounts for all cata items (say Items 10000 - 12000)
- Any account currently holding an item receives a 24 hr ban and automated email
- Items removed
- As this has never happened to me they may also possibly check your auction history to see if you profited from the item.

Tricks like filling your bags with other items, or trying to swap the items to other accounts, won't work as they aren't looking at bags or items, they are just doing an automated sweep of numbers.

[Anotherfox]

As the script is being run by item number, the logical answer would be to turn the stacks of fish into something else.

Confused?

Try wrapping it in paper! It would effectively turn the fish into Item #5042

[01dan]

The one thing I dont understand is how theyre going about scanning for these items. On my main account that I got a 24hr ban, in the email WoW has my main toon as the reason for getting the ban when in fact he never had any fish/items on him at all nor did he ever handle any... I stored all my items on a lowbie alt but on the same account.

[Etherea]

As the script is being run by item number, the logical answer would be to turn the stacks of fish into something else.

Confused?

Try wrapping it in paper! It would effectively turn the fish into Item #5042

Unfortunately you cannot wrap stackable items =(. However, you could do this to hide your greens.