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Shaun N.

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GAH!!!! Some Rogue was in WSG yesterday using the N word so I reported him and he started calling me names etc, Fine.

later on I saw him in AV and I thought I would use my afk macro to see if he would afk out. He did. He was from our server so I then got a whisper saying that he was going to report me so I said ok go ahead.

I then put him on ignore as he was still whining and calling me names.

This morning I open my work email to find the below!!! I was ****ed off lol

Account: KAFBECK

Date of Violation: 28/11/09

Character name involved: Phearz

Type of violation: Abuse of game mechanics Details of incident: Abusing game mechanics with emotes in an attempt to trick players into exiting a battleground.

Consequences for account: Warning placed on account

Greetings,

We are writing to inform you that we have, unfortunately, had to add a warning to your World of Warcraft account. It is with regret that we take this type of action; however, it is in the best interests of the World of Warcraft community as a whole and for the integrity of the game.

Please note that should any further violations of our Rules and Policies occur, this incident will be taken into consideration when determining the consequences to your account. This could include further warnings, account suspension or account termination.

We strongly suggest you review our current Rules and Policies to avoid further action in the future, these can be found at:

http://www.wow-europe.com/en/policy/

Please do not reply to this email as you will receive an automated response. If you have any further enquiries regarding your account status, please use the webform at the following address:

http://eu.blizzard.com/support/webform.xml?lan=en

Regards,

English Game Master Team

Blizzard Europe

My BG Macro

/em has flagged you as AFK, This mean you will not be able to receive Honour or XP. To dispute this flag please type /AFK Dispute.

so I am being punished because I can make someone leave via /afk, its their game fix it

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Stokkolm

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That sounds pretty petty to make such a fuss about and all because you couldn't be the bigger person. I agreed with you up to the point where you started to retaliate after he called you names in trade chat or wherever it was.

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Managed to pick up this baby for my level 35 Paladin. Even although it's from a rare spawn I got to the location and he was there :laugh: Usually I have no luck what so ever in this game.

Crit rate is crazy, my Vengeance is pretty much on 24/7 when fighting mobs.

And no, I didn't need to/shouldn't have sold for gold on AH, I have a 75 alt with enough gold to help me level.

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Shadrack

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so I am being punished because I can make someone leave via /afk, its their game fix it

This is why I just report a player, add them to my ignore list, and then leave it alone.

I'm not sure what you are so upset about. He didn't break any rules by using profanity and being nasty (there is a swear filter after all). You reported him, it was now in Blizzards hands. But you took it into your own hands... so I'm not sure why you are so shocked at Blizzards response.

Don't tell me you didn't have a smug sense of satisfaction when your ploy worked (I know I would have, lol). Just take your warning and move on.

Or quit the game and move on. Hell, I don't care.

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On a side note. When the hell is 3.3 going to get here? Tomorrow I hope.

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GAH!!!! Some Rogue was in WSG yesterday using the N word so I reported him and he started calling me names etc, Fine.

later on I saw him in AV and I thought I would use my afk macro to see if he would afk out. He did. He was from our server so I then got a whisper saying that he was going to report me so I said ok go ahead.

I then put him on ignore as he was still whining and calling me names.

This morning I open my work email to find the below!!! I was ****ed off lol

My BG Macro

so I am being punished because I can make someone leave via /afk, its their game fix it

I hate how blizz punishes people for using something that's available in-game, even if that's now how it was intended. Back in BC, the guild I was in used to use a similar macro to get the rest out of our group into a BG after they shafted pvp guilds and changed group queuing. I wouldn't let a warning get to you too much. I've only received maybe one warning and a 3-hour ban(Spamming on a RP server) in a 4 year span playing the game.

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dead.cell

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If someone is insulting you, breaking the rules, or whatever, best option is to /ignore and report them. Retaliating with other nonsense including insulting them back even will do you no good at all, and only get your ass warned too.

All in all, learn to control your anger and not let it get the best of ya. I know concentrating all my anger into a middle finger aimed at the computer monitor has certainly helped me be more "civil" compared to the swearing I used to do. :p

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Noveed

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2746 Gear Score.

40th ranked Survival Hunter (out of 1208) on Maelstrom.

58th out of all hunters (2109).

Im guessing WoW-Heroes score?

Just to let you know wow heroes is not accurate at all in predicting or telling how good you are compared to others simply because it is not done in realtime. Players seem always to be cached and the score is a cached score. So their score might have gone up from the last time someone looked them up. Also wow-heroes only gets players on there who have been searched for before either by themselves or by other players. If a player has never been looked into on wow heroes then that player will not show on any overall rankings.

I thought I had a pretty good gear score untill i refreshed a few people above me, then i realised that the gap between my gear score and thiers has increased even more.

In all fairness it still is skill>gear

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Minifig

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Gear Score doesn't mean SQUAT.

I got my tier 9 shoulder pads the other night and my gear score went DOWN.

I'm going to be getting a greatness card soon, (one of the absolute best dps trinkets in game until 25 man TGoC) and my gear score will go DOWN.

Do not rely upon gear score for ANYTHING.

A crappy player can have a great gear score and still do **** dps, likewise a great player can have a crap gear score and do phenomenal dps.

A source of controversy is that gear scores can be artificially inflated by using gear with higher ilvl and stats, but which is actually harmful to the class wearing it. One example is the use of cloth armor by classes that can wear plate armor to inflate a gear score, then simply wearing whatever gear is actually of use. A counterpoint to this issue is that if a player knows the game well enough to do this, they possibly are skilled enough at their class to overcome any gear deficiency.

Gear score also, often does not calculate the effects of enchantments, gems, or the player's use of potions and other enhancements to boost their abilities. Even if a player has a high gear score, poor selections of such enhancements can have a very negative impact on game performance.

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http://armorylite.com/us/blackrock/anarkii/

4105 Gearscore. 64th rated rogue on my server. My gear isnt that bad, its mostly TotC stuff, some dudes have all heroic versions, crazy and lucky!

Gear Score doesn't mean SQUAT.

I got my tier 9 shoulder pads the other night and my gear score went DOWN.

I'm going to be getting a greatness card soon, (one of the absolute best dps trinkets in game until 25 man TGoC) and my gear score will go DOWN.

Do not rely upon gear score for ANYTHING.

A crappy player can have a great gear score and still do **** dps, likewise a great player can have a crap gear score and do phenomenal dps.

A source of controversy is that gear scores can be artificially inflated by using gear with higher ilvl and stats, but which is actually harmful to the class wearing it. One example is the use of cloth armor by classes that can wear plate armor to inflate a gear score, then simply wearing whatever gear is actually of use. A counterpoint to this issue is that if a player knows the game well enough to do this, they possibly are skilled enough at their class to overcome any gear deficiency.

Gear score also, often does not calculate the effects of enchantments, gems, or the player's use of potions and other enhancements to boost their abilities. Even if a player has a high gear score, poor selections of such enhancements can have a very negative impact on game performance.

+1

I refuse to get rid of my greatness card, I had a lvl 245 trinket and my dps suffered tremendously, I was pumping out anywhere from 6K-11K with greatness, and when I had the lvl 245 trinket, my dps dropped down to a average of bout 3-7K.

So gear score means diddlysquat. Learn your rotations or buttons, and your class and ull be topping the charts, even in blues.

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You can say all you want about gearscore, and I do agree that it has no bearing on skill, but it is still useful. It's not meant to be used as much as people seem to use it (at least for Horde on Burning Legion), but it's useful when putting together pugs. Chances are somebody with a 4.5k GS (GearScore number, not WoW-Heroes) has a better chance of contributing more to the raid than somebody with a 3k GS. It's just that simple. Will they always do better? No, but when you're pugging you don't know every single person in the group, so you have to have some sort of measurement of potential raid contribution, and GearScore is really the only way to do that.

That being said, I almost always beat out other mages with better GS than me. It seems the 2-button Arcane rotation is still too difficult for most people to master :rolleyes:

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dead.cell

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You can say all you want about gearscore, and I do agree that it has no bearing on skill, but it is still useful. It's not meant to be used as much as people seem to use it (at least for Horde on Burning Legion), but it's useful when putting together pugs. Chances are somebody with a 4.5k GS (GearScore number, not WoW-Heroes) has a better chance of contributing more to the raid than somebody with a 3k GS. It's just that simple. Will they always do better? No, but when you're pugging you don't know every single person in the group, so you have to have some sort of measurement of potential raid contribution, and GearScore is really the only way to do that.

That being said, I almost always beat out other mages with better GS than me. It seems the 2-button Arcane rotation is still too difficult for most people to master :rolleyes:

Useful for players who know what they're doing. Pointless for those who don't.

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