The State of PvP: Unavailable Rewards, Mass Reports, Boosting, Exploits & Bugs
PvP in The War Within has been received positively by the community; however, there appear to be several unresolved issues. In this post, we highlight unobtainable rewards, exploits, and other player concerns affecting the PvP experience.
Unavailable Rewards
Solo Shuffle Medic: The War Within and Battleground Blitz Medic: The War Within were introduced in this expansion to encourage healers to queue for solo PvP modes. Both achievements are currently marked unobtainable, which is likely an oversight from when all Feats of Strength for Season 1 were flagged the same way. As a result, the associated toy pennants are also unavailable at the moment.
These achievements can be tracked with the following script:
/run C_ContentTracking.ToggleTracking(2,40792,2)
/run C_ContentTracking.ToggleTracking(2,40795,2)
Addon Exploit: Mass Reports
A modified version of Easy Report is being used to mass-report players, with PvP and Mythic+ streamers being the primary targets. This modified addon bypasses the target frame requirements, allowing users to report any player without even targeting them directly.
Penalties include a 7-day silence and potentially harsher automated account actions, as reported by Nnoggie.
Rated Blitz Boosting
Ever felt stomped in Battleground Blitz? Boosting is now rampant, with bad actors wintrading or selling carries even at 2400+ rating for the Strategist: The War Within Season 2 achievement and the Prized Legend's Pennant toy reward. These paid services are actively advertised through trade chat in-game and on various Discord marketplaces.
Toy Exploit: Firim's Specimen Container
The toy Firim's Specimen Container can currently be used to block access to vehicle building NPCs in battlegrounds.
Workaround:
Battlegrounds Issues
Battlegrounds could use a balance pass, especially with the gear power spike in Season 2.
General issues include:
While these could be addressed with tuning, other issues may need more specific changes.
Wintergrasp Inner Wall Bypass
Demolishers can be used by the attacking team to destroy the Fortress Door without breaking through the inner wall. The gallery below shows the attackers winning despite the inner wall remaining intact.
Ashran Stealth Cheese
Showcasing the strategy mentioned above, I snuck past the enemy team and NPCs with Potion of the Hushed Zephyr and soloed the boss. While a simple balance change can stop individual players from pulling this off, premade groups (usually five druids and/or rogues) can abuse perma-stealth from the start of the battlegrounds to the finish.
Defending players risk getting flagged AFK if they stay in base to guard, or even get reported by their own teammates. A system warning like "Grand Marshal Tremblade is under attack" could help mitigate this.
Alterac Valley Fire Bug
Rextroy highlighted a bug in Alterac Valley where players get one-shotted by standing in certain fire zones.
Quick Conquest Cap and Honor Farm
Players are avoiding traditional PvP gearing by forming 40-player raids and farming War Supply Chests in the Khaz Algar zones. The process is streamlined by Rdy's Crate Tracker, an addon that tracks chest spawn timers and shard changes across zones.
War Supply Chests spawn roughly every 15 minutes and drop:
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PvP in The War Within has been received positively by the community; however, there appear to be several unresolved issues. In this post, we highlight unobtainable rewards, exploits, and other player concerns affecting the PvP experience.
Unavailable Rewards
Solo Shuffle Medic: The War Within and Battleground Blitz Medic: The War Within were introduced in this expansion to encourage healers to queue for solo PvP modes. Both achievements are currently marked unobtainable, which is likely an oversight from when all Feats of Strength for Season 1 were flagged the same way. As a result, the associated toy pennants are also unavailable at the moment.
These achievements can be tracked with the following script:
/run C_ContentTracking.ToggleTracking(2,40792,2)
/run C_ContentTracking.ToggleTracking(2,40795,2)
| Name | Reward | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Reward: Unbound Legend's Pennant | ||
| Reward: Unbound Strategist's Pennant |
Addon Exploit: Mass Reports
A modified version of Easy Report is being used to mass-report players, with PvP and Mythic+ streamers being the primary targets. This modified addon bypasses the target frame requirements, allowing users to report any player without even targeting them directly.
Penalties include a 7-day silence and potentially harsher automated account actions, as reported by Nnoggie.
Rated Blitz Boosting
Ever felt stomped in Battleground Blitz? Boosting is now rampant, with bad actors wintrading or selling carries even at 2400+ rating for the Strategist: The War Within Season 2 achievement and the Prized Legend's Pennant toy reward. These paid services are actively advertised through trade chat in-game and on various Discord marketplaces.
Toy Exploit: Firim's Specimen Container
The toy Firim's Specimen Container can currently be used to block access to vehicle building NPCs in battlegrounds.
Workaround:
- Bind Interact With Target to any key
- Type /target Goblin Mechanic or /target Gnomish Engineer
- Press the key to interact with the NPC and start building vehicles
Battlegrounds Issues
Battlegrounds could use a balance pass, especially with the gear power spike in Season 2.
General issues include:
- Alterac Valley: The Alterac Blitz is far too easy to achieve with just one or two tanks, since the boss council damage hasn't been adjusted with the new season.
- Isle of Conquest: Glaive Throwers are too fragile; a 200% health increase would help prevent them from being instantly deleted.
- Wintergrasp: Losing teams on offense can get camped at the graveyard (aka "hostaged") for over 15 minutes if snowballed. This is not a great experience, especially in a battleground where snowballing easily gets out of control.
- Ashran: Tanks can stealth past the enemy players and NPCs and solo enemy bosses (Volrath/Tremblade) with minimal risk.
While these could be addressed with tuning, other issues may need more specific changes.
Wintergrasp Inner Wall Bypass
Demolishers can be used by the attacking team to destroy the Fortress Door without breaking through the inner wall. The gallery below shows the attackers winning despite the inner wall remaining intact.
Ashran Stealth Cheese
Showcasing the strategy mentioned above, I snuck past the enemy team and NPCs with Potion of the Hushed Zephyr and soloed the boss. While a simple balance change can stop individual players from pulling this off, premade groups (usually five druids and/or rogues) can abuse perma-stealth from the start of the battlegrounds to the finish.
Defending players risk getting flagged AFK if they stay in base to guard, or even get reported by their own teammates. A system warning like "Grand Marshal Tremblade is under attack" could help mitigate this.
Alterac Valley Fire Bug
Rextroy highlighted a bug in Alterac Valley where players get one-shotted by standing in certain fire zones.
Quick Conquest Cap and Honor Farm
Players are avoiding traditional PvP gearing by forming 40-player raids and farming War Supply Chests in the Khaz Algar zones. The process is streamlined by Rdy's Crate Tracker, an addon that tracks chest spawn timers and shard changes across zones.
War Supply Chests spawn roughly every 15 minutes and drop:
- 150 Honor
- 60 Conquest
- 50 Bloody Tokens
- Chance for Khaz Algar recipes
- Chance for Vicious Bloodstone
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