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We just started our raid group to be able to raid tonight, and some people noticed that the instances that we got locked yesterday, for some reason, got reset today.

So we aren’t sure if we should re-clear the place, because Blizzard might just consider it as an exploit and mass ban?

Here are a couple of screenshots from Ulduar (25M) and Trial of the Crusader (25M), the initial stuff is there (as reference) and the window about the Raid ID is there.

These things make you wonder what is Blizzard doing. This morning they took down a bunch of servers for some hardware reconfiguration:

Greetings!

We will be performing a hardware reconfiguration maintenance for the realms listed below beginning on Wednesday, August 26 at 5:00am PDT. We anticipate these realms will be down until approximately 9:00am PDT.

I took out the servers listed because they were too long, but Mal’Ganis was among them.

Right now we are waiting for a GM to tell us if we can re-clear the stuff that we had cleared already or not. Some people asked others to see if they were experiencing the same (from our server and other servers) and they reported the same thing. Someone also said that we got new instance servers.

The mass ban might sound a bit silly, but knowing Blizzard, they could just say it’s an exploit and just mass ban, so it’s always better play in the safe side.

Edit: There are a couple of forum posts made by players here and here.

Edit 2: Finally an official response:

UPDATE:

Based on the latest information we have available, if your raid has been affected by this issue, but has not yet cleared any foes in your reset instance, then your partially cleared instance should be restored to its former state when the resolution for this issue is implemented.

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Hello all!

We are aware of an issue with raid instance resets, and we are investigating the matter as we speak. We would like to apologize for any inconvenience or confusion that this may have caused, but we hope to have the matter resolved soon. That said, based on the information I have currently available, we are unlikely to be in a position to restore raids to their prior state. As we receive more information, we’ll provide it here.

The affected battlegroups should be as follows (you can locate your battlegroup via the following link):

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/pvp/battlegrounds/battlegroups/

• Whirlwind
• Emberstorm
• Nightfall
• Stormstrike

Thank you for your patience as we work to get everything running smoothly again!

This blue text inside that thread was also kinda ironic:

Malkorix:

You’re welcome!

It’s pretty safe to assume that as long as no deliberate or willful exploitation is taking place in this case, that we will not take action against the involved raiders.

Gahlok
Frostbolt.com

My last update was probably two months ago; I have to admit I’ve been a bit lazy. To tell the truth, for a couple of months I’ve been getting burnt of WoW (more info about this later on). But, since there’s maintenance right now, I thought I would finally update.

I’m just going to post stuff chronologically (I kept taking screenshots since then).

In July 16 our guild got a Val’anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings, which was in those times the second that Alliance got in our server. The lucky person was Hugetank (he’s not a tank).

Also, there was a patch by those times (I think 3.1?) and for some reason the train that went to Mimiron was bugged: some people could see it, some people couldn’t.

For people that couldn’t see the train, walking thru the bridge meant…. death. Some of us thought it was an illusion, that even if you walked you would land in the train, but we were so wrong (notice the two dead persons at the bottom).

That same night we noticed that Blizzard made a ninja change and modified slightly Mimiron’s fight: when second phase started it would look like he was opening a can with a huge can opener

Before it was just a platform with a couple of walls that came up.

During those times I also started to re-level two of my alts, my old main (rogue) and a hunter. The rogue is 75 and the hunter is 74, I decided to stop leveling them after hearing that we would be getting worgens, so I might reroll one of them. I would have liked to reroll my druid (lets admit it, probably most night elves druids didn’t really like the option of being night elves, the only reason we are it’s because there was no other choice; I really wanted to be a gnome druid in the beginning), but seeing that I would lose a ton of stuff I might just not do it.

As for Trial of the Crusader, the latest raid instance introduced in 3.2, to tell the truth the whole place is a joke, we’ve been 1 shotting all the bosses (we were the first alliance guild in the server to kill the Northrend Beasts, not like it matters, it wasn’t hard).

Altho we did wipe once to the Faction Champions, not because of the difficulty, but because we didn’t know they were going to jump down where we were standing, hehehe.

We’ve also gotten a couple Ulduar achievements and stuff like that.

Going back to the getting burnt topic, some weeks ago it was really bad, but thanks to the alliance-horde thing that Blizzard lifted, I recently started to level a horde Orc Death Knight alt (at the beginning I wasn’t sure if he should be Orc, Undead or Blood Elf), he’s 72 right now, and it’s fun (well, still getting burnt of doing quests and such, but I’ve never —ever— played a horde before nor really visited horde towns, so all this is new for me).

I must say that horde have some really interesting and fun quests, compared to alliance.

That’s a debuff of a quest in Borean Tundra, and I know it’s something old, but I never saw it by myself nor knew from where it came, hehe.

In this one you ride a tank (which moves fast) and have a bunch of skills, this is also in Borean Tundra.

There’s also a tank mission in Dragonblight for Alliance, but it’s not as fun as this one.

Oh, I was also planning into playing Champions Online, a few days ago I got a beta key for the Open Beta (which ends in a couple of days), but I’ve been kinda lazy there because I’d have to install Boot Camp, not like it’s complicated but.. zzzz. Been following up the game for two or three months, and I’m really looking forward to the game but I’ve been reading some bad comments lately about it so at this point I’m not really sure.

Gahlok
Frostbolt.com