OK I’m not exactly sure where to put this, or if theres an existing thread already, but here goes…
You might have already heard about the little 25 nax guild on Vek’nilash that was suddenly get crazy Ulduar achivements and really wierd stats on some of it’s members according to armory.
Heres the BlizzPlanet article:
http://www.blizzplanet.com/blog/comm…y…_wait_who/
I am (was?) in The Marvel Family and I’m gonna break it down for everyone.
I logged in this afternoon and saw people in trade chat talking about Marvel and our GM, turns out, last night (I think) we had a very succesful Ulduar run, VERY. Our guild master’s armory on the WoW website has his highest hit as some rediculously high number, and it just so happens that its EXACTLY the Flame of Levithan’s HP. Other rumors floated around trade, his cooking and first aid at like 600 among many others.
I hopped on Vent and into the chaos. I had no idea that for a week, my guild was in possesion of a legendary chest piece given to one of us via in game mail from a GM. EDIT: the person who got it in the mail had their account hacked a few weeks earlier, and petitioned blizz for about a month before everything was restored, not sure if this has any relevance. It was not bind on possession or equip or anything, so the person who got it in the mail traded it to our guild master. It was called Mathin’s something, or Martin’s something, but it basically had 99 charges to kill anything within a 30 yard radius. They chose to try it out in Ulduar. I wasn’t there, but they apparently downed Flame with this item and our guild master got a huuuge hit registered on the armory, everyone got achivements which we had only dreamed of getting before. The next day when he tried to log in his account was banned (suprise!) and trade chat was absolutely merciless towards anyone with the Marvel name over their heads. I got whispers from countless level ones, obviously alts from different servers, asking me how we did it, why his armory was so whacked, etc. One was offering me "thousands of USD" to give him info. Ignored. Everyone had open tickets, and then more bans. Guildies were going offline and vent was nuts with everyone all like "This WoW account has been closed and is no longer available for use…" and getting really mad. One by one the entire guild was slowly getting their accounts locked, eventually I got mine ( I have never been in Ulduar, let alone in the group that night.) Threads are being closed on the forums, our vent info was compromised at some point, and a 12 year old joined cursing and talking about chicken. Mhm. Chicken. Here’s one open thread on forums…
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th…sid=1&pageNo=6
The guild is pretty much scattered among different vents, fathoming trade chat back on the server and wondering if maybe we shouldnt have used the legendary that showed up in the mail..
I’m really in the guild, this really happened and feel free to send me a whisper in game, I’m Altruism on Vek’nilash. Not sure when my account will be reactivated atm, the email says my account is under review.
Can’t post on the official forums, so I thought I’d just stick this here to help explain everything.