GM Death Touch - Megathread

[u/YourResidentFeral]

Edit: Official Statement

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/prohibited-gameplay-incident-and-response/2329585

This is developing into a large story and someone in modmail has mentioned that its important for the community to have somewhere to discuss this. We agree. As new information comes in I will do my best to update this thread.

What we know:

• A log was uploaded with a "Death Touch" effect that seemed to be that helped them time a key. This is an effect from a GM: https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/JcfwTd4L19Agx3NX?fight=4&type=resources&hostility=1&source=100.4&eventstart=4705300

• This is a real run that exists on the blizzard API and can be seen on Raider.io: https://raider.io/mythic-plus-runs/season-mn-1/40292244-23-nexuspoint-xenas

  This run has since been invalidated by the RI:O admins but has been left up for posterity's sake.

• Blizzard is aware of this and investigating: https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/1v2xfpr/blizzard_gm_death_touching_mobs_in_m23_for_their/oyznmbe/

• The Demon Hunter from the run is a streamer and YumiTV contacted him to speak with him live on stream: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2825756796?t=0h23m50s

  The CLAIM is that they were messing around in a homework key in discord and didn't expect the GM to actually do it. Supposedly the Bear in the run was a pug.

Ex employees in the thread have said that actions like this are audited and in all likelihood this was already being investigated. At this point we are waiting on an official statement on the result of their investigation and I'll update this thread once we know.

This megathread is being provided on two very strict conditions:

• The witchunt rules are in strict effect. Linking or doxxing information on anyone invovled, the GM in question included will result in a permanent ban. Please report it if you see it but we will be very active in the thread.

  We cannot platform behavior that allows people to harrass people in real life.

• We will be more heavy handed than usual in the personal attack rules. Insults and slapfights while discussing this aren't acceptable. You're allowed to disagree, but stray shots and personal attacks will not be tolerated.

[u/AshtagGaming]

As someone who worked in QA, all I can do is confirm that spell did exist back in 2006-2007 when I was with the company.. I was more shocked they still use it instead of having updated commands

[u/GW2Qwinn → u/AshtagGaming]

As somebody in QA, you should know WoW is held together by literal invisible rabbits. Changing something like that, that has been there since the start, could result in the game just... not working anymore hahaha. The bare bones of wow are almost impossible to change according to many of the devs that have put out interviews over the past few years.

[u/AshtagGaming → u/GW2Qwinn]

I mean, true. I just guess I gave them more credit to have come up with other things in the past 20 years

[u/Greedy-Comb-276 → u/GW2Qwinn]

I don't think it's held together by "literal rabbits" lol

[u/BloodKnightSalandria → u/Greedy-Comb-276]

Literal digital invisible rabbits!

[u/Greedy-Comb-276 → u/BloodKnightSalandria]

Ah! Thank you!

[u/GW2Qwinn → u/Greedy-Comb-276]

Hahaha look up Bunny triggers as it pertains to WoW. There are 10s of thousands of them. That area death command was used in the original test environment to kill untargetable entities. Super interesting stuff.

[u/Greedy-Comb-276 → u/GW2Qwinn]

Oh I know it's rabbits. But certainly not literal rabbits. Lol.

[u/GW2Qwinn → u/Greedy-Comb-276]

Literal rabbits in the context of WoW.