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So we got banned, you all know that by now... And alot of nice and juicy drama on all kinds of forums, people blaming us left and right but lets not forget all of you supporters aswell <3. I'm well aware that some guildmates already made blogs about this matter and i do support them!

I'd just like to start with that we had 16 attempts left before reaching the Lich King and since i'm just a "peon" aka raider in the guild then I did not have access to what was said within the classleader and officer channel, only raid/guild/party chat and ventrilo.

So what was the "exploit"?

During the fight, 3 Val'kyr's spawns and they pick up 1 person each from the raid and what they do is that they fly towards the outer room and drop the player over the edge, this spot gets destroyed after finishing phase 2. Allegedly the outer circle that got destroying could be rebuilt by using bombs that causes siege damage such as Saronite Bombs.

So how did Ensidia "exploit"?

Our rogue Naihiko uses Saronite Bombs in his dps rotation and uses them on every cooldown (1 min cooldown), on our first attempt everything seemed "normal", nothing out of the ordinary happend but on the 2nd attempt we did notice something, the floor got rebuilt after the first wave of Val'kyr's, which we did manage to kill. The attempt after that, it was the same thing, floor got rebuilt after the first wave of Val'kyr's that got killed. Since we noticed that the players got dropped on the rebuilt floor we decided that theres no point in dpsing the Val'kyr's beside on the first wave.

We had no idea what was causing this to happen, until the 3rd attempt, everything went fine until the first wave of Val'kyr's, we failed on killing those before they reached the edge and the floor did not get rebuilt, so logically we thought that killing the first wave of Val'kyr's triggered the floor to be rebuilt and the same thing happend for the 3 following attempts where we wiped.

Ok so what happend on the 7th attempt which was the kill.

Val'kyr's spawned like usual but the difference was that the floor got rebuilt before we killed them, according to Blizzard it was caused by the Saronite Bombs. Since the floor was there, then theres no point in killing the Val'kyr's and just continue. It resulted in us killing the Lich King.

So this is what we figured out during the Lich King attempts.

We believed that it was a bug causing the floor to be rebuilt in the 25 man version after killing the first wave of Val'kyr's, we were aware that this wasn't happening in the 10 man version of Lich King but since the 10 man diffuculty and 25 man dont share the same spell id's, this led us to believe that it was an error in the 25 man version. And we still believe that its pretty far fetched that something actually causing seige damage would cause something to be rebuilt / respawn, it would be more likely if it caused the floor to disapear during phase 2 and 4 and cause everyone to die.

Ohh and the most important part; Since we thought the encounter was bugged and not exploited from our side then of course we're going to continue attempting the boss, we're not going to sit around and wait for some other guild to take the world first kill eventho if the fight is bugged.

Sincerely

- Jinxarn

Anyway here's some links to other blogs:

Muqq - http://ensidia.com/muqq/blog/4078/

Good read, muqq's thoughts about the ban and there's also a hidden referance to what Tigole wrote when he played EverQuest

Ekyu - http://ensidia.com/Ekyu/blog/4079/

How Ekyu's day looked like on the first progress raid in ICC10/25.